Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1829-05-12

FROM THE NETWORK MORNING HERALD.
49, CHEAP LIVING.


FROM THE NETWORK MORNING HERALD.
80 CHEAP LIVING.
i The reader will recollect an article Sc
lected for our paper few days since, from
Cobbett's Register, addressed by that ec-
centrick writer to syoung men DESTROYS of
getting married." He demonstrated to the
two young fellows, who called on him from
London, that it is completely in the power
Of every man to maintain wife and family,
and lay up comfortable fortune, simply by
discarding the foreign superfuities, which
come under the head of Injuries, and living
only on such things as England produces.
We have no doubt of the truth of the propo-
sition. It's the consumption of those arti-
cles which are procured from abroad, but
which should be produced at home, or not
consumed at all, which impoverishes indi-
viduals as well as nations. Fortunately, the
people of the United States, inhabiting the
interiodr of the northern and middle States,
know this important truth, and the extent to
which it is practised has proved and is now
proving of the utmost Importance to them.
Il has sustained them under every privation
which commercial embarrassment embar-
goes, nonintercourse and war, and foreign
riValship in manufacturing, could inflict up
onthem, and at no period have they retro
graded in prosperity, but have kept steadily
on IN the road to wealth and improvement.
And what has enabled them so to do !? LiU-
s,ag acitkin themselves, Independent of the
HuctuatlonS produced by national collisions
in peace or war. They have not, like the
southern people, turned all their efforts upon
the production of single article, and at
the same time neglected to fatten their own
pork, raise their own bread stuffs, rear their
own domestick animals, and clothe their
families from the wool or cotton of their
own growing. While we point out this DIFF
ference inithe domestick policy of the North
and the South, as one of the great causes
of the greater prosperity of the people of
the north, we cannot say of them what Cob
bett recommends as the only infallible
means of obtaining wealth and independence,
namely, that they live exclusively on Ameri-
can productions. The first settlers of Yer
mont, New York, and the northern parts of
Pennsylvania. are now old men, or no longer
living, and new generation have taken
possession, who have brought with them
improvements in the mode of living, which
If they add to the refnements of life, take
also from it large portion of contentment
and independence, and consequently of hap
piness.. You shall visit one of those farms
where the father, now bent upon his staff.
feiled the first tree and rolled the first Los
heap, which has been transferred to the most
fortunate or most favoured son, and YOU
viii lind the front gate and the front door
which had been barracaded quarter of
century, or even since they were built, now
capable of being opened should a visitor
happen to be too proud to go into the kitch-
en-, or to serve the younger part of the fami-
~ for an outlet on Sunday, when they sally
forth to show their inery. The loom. which
had occupied for years one of the front
rooms, may now be found in the garret or
woodhouse, and its place filed with . cur
tain bee" kept only for company.
The aged matron under the economy of
the young mistress, hears but little of the
lively hum of the spinning wheel, and the
thrifty sound Of the nimble shuttle. Do
mestick economy and industry are too
much neglected, and fax is no longer raised
because 1t is no longer spun-cotton goods
are so cheap! The dame sees with silence
but with forbeding, that coffee or tea are
served regularly for breakfast and in the af-
ternoon; and she will tell you in her dav
they never had a pound of boughten coffee
in the house, and that quarter of pound
OF bohea tea, lasted them whole year
Thus 1t Is thatthe second generation inbab-
ting country which the fathers found
find indispensable those things
which, IN England, centuries have less GEN
orally introduced. The wife of the Young
New England Farmer must have her & car |
pet room" and her curtain bed.v and her
tea in the afternoon, with spoons and tea
cups to match. As Goblet says, let them
discard all this fummery, and ali the ex-
penses that necessarially attend it if they
would live independent.
External circumstances affect penu,ae |
respectablllty far less than most people ina
glne. Never did an upright, intelligent. is,
oustrlcus and noble minded man SCI out tol
ueiy fashion, and regulate his dress and
LIS expenses IN his own way and upon plan
~ Jusuce and economy, who did not succeed.
ano ENJOY the respect of his neighbours
~ suppose there are thousands Of families
~ she' lnferionr Of our country who are nm
.nhuenced by silly and expensive love Of
snow and parade, and who come yery near
'. .he adylce given by Goblet /; and we wish
she aumber might be increased. espec;alIu