Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1830-04-29
DlsrfNorrsuED MrCHANcs.

Mechanic Arts, Is from a speech of Francis
Baylies, Esq. in the Massachusetts, Legisls-
ture, in reply tosome issiauations thrown out
! By MIR. Hobart, against the Mechanics.
In two little rooms ia this city assembled
the mlen who devised the project Of snancipa-
ting nation. fbc pioneers Of the American
Revolution were the Mechanics OF Boston
In their meetings they deliberated on The
highest objects Of human conceTnment---a Ia
tone rights; AMI having ascertsinsd the
strength Of the foundation, they had no dread
OF the issue, and eourted the conflict will
transpor. the gentleman to another place
! the CarpsGter's Hall in the city of Philadel-
! phIa. + In that place, GA a day memorable in
hour annals, the 4th fully, l776, deed was
done which has no parallel. On that day, in
! that place was assembled the most august POI
htical body that ever deliberated On nation S
destiny. Five Issn.had been selected as the
elite OF that assembly--the greatest amongst
the great--tc prepare the maBifesto of ma
tons wrongs. Amongst them was a man by
t,ths name of Ben amin Franklin, (the gentle
man from Leicester. in his nultfarlo read
/ ing, may have read Of him. man mighty a
moaxst the sons, OF men, who by common con :
seat. stood at the head Of the Philosophers Of
tioE iuto the secTets ofEature bad giyea him
the knowledge eli ber gubtIest, mot snysteri-
Gus, most tseIHonaous, iGcst. destructive a.
goat, winch he dsarmed of lie power. Y es
s,r .eha played With the forlscd liEhtpings as
'gitb tanned snako--and yet tie elements Of
that marvellous wisdom which cali htened
ana astoEsshed the world, were gathered in b
prnter'a Office and THIS great man was
printer.
There was another, not inferior to Frank
Ian IN sagacity---his superior in sound pr.c-
teal knowledge ofpolitics. A man whose O.
piBions were the essence OF strong common
sense, the results ef the uo:ted action OF
clear heed aud an honest heart The name
OF this man was Roger Sherman, Che gentle
man lrom Leicester has heard of him) This
Roger Sherman wrought at the trade OF a
shoemaker many yeara after be had reached
the age 0i maturity.
There was another, not a mechanic BIN
sell, but the son oil mechanic, and bred in
the family of a mechaaic. | will now take
the gentleman from the room where The
Statesman Of Aneilca assembled. Ia The
chair Of the last. he once could have seen Da i.
vid Rlttenhouse, Watchmaker, one OF the
greatest astronomers and matbematicians of
the age.
will take the gentleman little farther,
even into the State OF South Carolina; and az
he lived IN revolutionary times. he might
have heard OF q General who was ~one Of the
hrst OF military men, genius who could ap-
propiiate the benefits OF hIs snemy's victories
to his own use. and triumph IN defeat, and
whose own victories were CONQUEST His
name was Nathaniel Greene, a blacksmith,
! like any worthy friend from Hiasdale, MIR.
! Enaons, he went forth from his auth, to
heal armies, and WIN glory--a hero and a
patriot
| viii take the gentleman so Germany:
and as ha has disclosed to US that he is a rea-
der OF the scriptures by plentiful quotations.
and illusions, will show him the man, with
out whose AID he might possibly have never
seen Bible. mean, sir, Jshn faustus, a
printer, and lnvent0r of the art OF printing
Il Will now take the gen9cman to England,
to introduce kim to persoa of the nae4e of
Brndlcy, the constructor Of those magnif
cent canas which in the epuise of2O years
tnp'ed the wealth Of England. This man
was milwright. There was another, whe
oy 2isiug " the steam engine lis highest ca =
pacty, swelled the stream Of British wealth
IN yet greater ratio; his name was Games
| W att, maker o! mathematical INSTRUMENTS
he gentleman has told US that he some
times condesconds to enter BARRIERS shop
not tc hold any converse with its humble DC :
eupanf, but only to receive a touch Of bis art j,
AMI then 10 depart an If In disdaln Of the MAJ
who could pursue an employment SO humble
| But can tell the gentleman that his trade,
humble as 1t IL, vas once pract!sed by a
| mighty. GENUS who lRvef ted an improvement
IN the machinery for spinuing cotton, which
has not only laid the foundation OF some OF
the most magnificent fortunes in America
which has not only tiled our country with
wealth. but which. Ike the touch Of the en-
chanters wand, has concentrated the treas
urss OF thc world in the sland of Great Bit
AIN, | mean Richard Arkwrisht, by the
courtesy of England, Sir Richard man
~who by tie force OF his genius translated him
sell from a barbcrc shop TO the British Par
! lament, and to place amongst the proud
knights Of the greatest sristocracy in the
wer!d.
! HE genlusof these three great mechanics,
Brindley, Wait and Arkwright, upheld the
sinking fortunes OF EnSlsnd, and placed her
on that high eminence from which she over
looks tao world
Although may weary the gentleman from
Leicester, must take him to another place
little town IN the centre, of England, called
Stratford, o. the Avon, There dwelt, in an.
csent times, a man whose name was William
! Shakespeare! dare say tbs gentleman has
! heard OF hnn-he was mighty spirit, whose
influence, Ike that OF the heavenly bodies, is
even now calling up the tide Of human feeling.
tic was man who has thrown the chal ms
! ~