The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-08-08

he would be tempted to abandon, instantly
and forever, the land of hills, and floods
and forests, and frost, and seek dwelling
in kinder cline.
And when New Highlander, who loves
his native land, and feels some pride in the
relative rank that his own State once held
IN the family of the States,-in her weight
and authority in The general council, and
in the anxious regards that were cast to-
wards her in the seasons Of revolutionary
Lit is somewhat disheartening to look
at statistical table, and see how the rel
alive rank of his own State has sunk from
what she once was to see State, which,
thirty years ago, had no existence as a
State, and forty years ago was hardly
known as a wilderness, now supporting a
population oc neoriy million, and sending
into the councils of the General Govern
ment representation one third larger than
gland States-the stauch and spirited old
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
To New Highlander these views are
discouraging. They make him feel that
the world is running away from him and
his interest-or rather that it is running
away iCith them-regardless of their cries,
oiAN " I1CiI WelIGIcs v SOilS
extent, this will, and must be the case !;
and, If New England is not just to herself,
It must be the case to very great extent.
But, if she is just to herself Just to the
natural advantages which in her very hills,
and streams, and forests, and rocks, have
been given to her as q counterpois9 to the
boundless and bountiful plains of the south
and west-and just to the moral and intel
lectual means that have been placed in her
hands, of protecting her interests and main
tanning her inf1uence,-she can never cease
to be felt; her voice will always be heard
and listened to with respect; and her pol0-
er will always be such that it will not be
deemed wise to contemn, or prudent to pro-
woke it.
The great secret of the welfare of New
England-of Massachusetts especially
the welfare that consists in personal and
domestic comfort, in social and civil secur-
ity, and in political influence and conside-
ration, is found in the common, the almost
proverblal remark, that knowledge IS polcer.
BY kno,cIedge, however, is not here to be
understood merely literary or scientific
knowiedge-merely an acquaintance with
books, and with what has been thought
and said on particular subjects by men of
other nations and other times,-but a
knowledge of the present condition of men,
and the means of improving acknowledge
OF the wants of men, and the means of sup
plying then-knoWledge, not of the sci
ences only, but of the arts-not of the fine
arts merely, or chiefly, by which society is
but of the mechanic arts, by |
which society is built up and beautifed-
the arts that build our houses and furnish |
them-our navies and equip them-our cit |
les, and surround them with walls of
strength the arts that make the clay and
the fiinty rock assume the form of porce-
lain and glass, and minister to the comfort
of the cottage, or to the splendor of the
rich mans table the arts that convert
the web of worm, or the fibre of a plant,
or the fleece of flock, into robes of warmth
and beauty the arts that bring forth
masses of ore from the bosom of the earth,
and mould the ductile metal into every
form that ingenuity can devise, for the sup
ply of the wants of man. The knowledge,
in which the strength-the power-of this
Commonwealth consists, embraces that
which, in the scriptures, is sometimes call
ed cunning, that is, ingenuity in devising
ornamental work, and skill in executing it.
knowledge Of the mechanical arts, and
skill in mathematical operations, acting as,
in Massachusetts, and New England gen
orally, they may actin concert with the
physical sciences,-with the mathematics,
with geographical knowledge, with mer-
camille misunderstanding with northern
industry and patience, and under the i'm
pulse of northern capital, and under the
guidance of northern sagacity and good
judgment,-will do, for the cold regions
of the north and east, in relation to politi-
cal influence, and, consequently, to the pro-
lection of political rights, what, in the
south and west, if done at all, must be
done by the force Of numbers.
Pierpont's Sermon.
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