Berkeley and Jefferson intelligencer. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va.) 1802-1810, 1803-01-07

fanks, few only Of lis inhabitanfs are
born 70 the patrimonial inheritance Of
such ample fortunes, IS lift them above
The necessity Of personal attention TO
some Kind of business, and 10 the rules
and maxims Of economy. The great
body Of the youthof our nation have very
litfle other source Of dependence for q
livelihood and fortune, besides their
own industry and prudent management.
They should, therefore, be early initia-
ted into the necessary principles Of eco
nomy, and be taught how 10 eavn,and 10
sare property. They should be made 70
know the value and the use OF money
For want ofthis knowledge, the children
Of the rich frequently become poor
Nursed in the lap Of indolence and total
lydestitute Of economy, their tsrirhea
make % fhenseiues suings and 9yarray !"
and they are quickly engnlphed IN POI
yerty that renders them peculiarly
wfetched Dig they cannot, 70 beg
they are ashamed. " For want Of this
necessary knowledge, the profoundest
students, and the most distinguished
characters among the Literati are often
seento be the most unskilful and unsuc-
cessful in worldly pursuits. They read
the classics and relish their beauties,-
They number and measure the stars, and
call them BY their names but, while
their attention has been wholly occupied
in these scientific pursuits, they remain
ignorant Of domestic concerns and the
necessary arts Of living and are tsnfold
more Liable toimposition than their lille
tterate friends, who have been used to
the daily traffic and scfambling pursuits
Of the world. The mode Of education
proper for our youth, (the families Of the
very rich excepted, Is such as viii en-
brace obieets 81 solid utility, rather than
those Of the snowy and 6nical kind. TO
stock the country with numerous race
Of Gentlemen and Ladies', genteelly edn-
Gated inordinately fond Of fashionable
expense, but without the means of sup
porting it--too proud to labor, and too
poor TO be idle--would be extremely IA
al to It's interest. 1t Is infinitely better.
70 rear, upplain, sensible, well-moralised
men and women, fraught With the max
inns Of prudence who win conform
themselves TO their circumstances, and
neither eat the bread Of idleness, nor
drink the cup Of vanity-who win be
qualified toaet their parts usefully in So
eiety, and 10 become prudent, industri-
Gus husbands, and discreet and diligent.
wives. Thus, TO usefhe expressions Of
q sacred writer, the sons Of our land
!" would beas plants grown up in their.
youth-Its daughters would Be Is corr
ner stones, polished after the similitude
Of . palace. And, ii his words, II may
Be added, Z Happy i tha. people, tha.
ltwould Be easy 70 draw examples
from the famous republics Of ancient
Greece and Rome-but there Is an ex.
ample TO our purpose, in modern re-
public. The people Of the United Ne.
therlands, after they had shook OF the
Spanish yoke and become anindependent
rePubiic, distinguished themselves, for
q long time, By their general industry and
plain frugal manners. They punished
idleness, q crime against the state
They estimated every thing according to
its utility. They honored labor and en-
couraged useful arts. They even raised
. monument 70 the memory Of the man,
who taught them how TO cure their HER
RIEcs. Every species Of extravagance
and prodigality met with their marked
contempt. With them il was standing
rule, that every family, (extraordinaries
excepted, should live within lis income,
and the rule was never violated, but At
the expense ofincurring public disgrace.
Thus BY the united force of example and
education, they continued IN theirsseaay
industrious habits and frugal hampers,
from age TO age, during thelapse Of near,
~ two centuries--and, risingfrom small
beginnings and gradually vanquishinEna-
tural obstacles, that were seemingly nm
surmountable, they attained to an asto-