The Arkansas advocate., 1831-08-24


 1 oplelon requires alteration. Ar admir- 'E:.t.ls < system. been matufeei, wi9icb i. fully understood and vigorously enforc ed. Every thing which can conduce te the health and comfort of the cadets consistently with doe attention to stu. dYs aud the performance of their militia y duties, has received attention
 r From Me Westninster Repieso of.4pra.
 Il property mas remained long in inc same family 1'--or in other words. f inc sQceesslye sPenders have not spent too much, the idea of property becomes connected With the idea of particular family, and the labor-scIlers get into the habit ot looking upon this family of Ia. oor-bHYers CT labor-commanders. or Fomethlng pecollar-as entitled bybirth OF descent to some superiority. This is the meaning of the word s.gentieman; Y . gentleman ls one who is not under the necessity of doing any thing, aud whose ancestors of several generations have done nothing.
 eidssts C0tlslst sCDleft4 O. persons of this class, the lower class are those who must do som6tMag to live: an upper class man goes to bed as he got up itl the morning; lower class nian has changed the world to some extent: out ot a block of wood he has made d char or table; out Of piece of cloth. coat; out Of a>brlae lnlnp Of iron. se- YefaI horse shoes.
 The uppes clas. 0 men depending on no one, and dong | theyslike, patu- rally form ahigh opinion of themselves; the lower class mon are too busy to put their thoughts in the shape of opin- ion; and besides, they nccessaril, incline to bow tothe purchasers of their lahor. and the possessors olathat choice metal. the smallest portion of which would go lar to pay for a whole day of their lives. Thus If comes to pass, that the do-not.- ings become greatly conceited, and the much docrs greatly condemned.
 But as people get fired ef doing notli. ing, and luustamuse themselves. the5np. per classes, both by way of amusing themselves and efleetnaIly securing DOS session of the ssdrift'sa take t into their heads to make the laws. in making these laws they have. several things to attend to; first, tteysmast punish with various penalties. fronsde;ah 10 cart, whipping, all those who may disturt them in any of their el!ioyments; next, they must prevent the lower classes from cutting each others throats, fer thereby they would lose one or more of their la borers; next. as these 1aber-seiicfs often make more money than is absolutely ne- cessary to subsistence, they ordain that all such sums shall De paid into the state chest to which they {the do-nothings) alone have access; and in order more eliectually to distinguish inc do-nethings from the puch doers, they direct that they shall wear certain badges, be call cd certain titles, and be exempt from tue burthens imposed upon others.
 Sin this state of things,sit is clearthat the drift is kept secnre in the class to which 1t belongs, or should it by possi- bility. shift, as in some cases of melting. or otherwise disappearing, it is renewed out of the sfatcscbest; for il is held, that there is something shocking ia the fact of do-nothing ever falling into the rank of a mueh-doer. For a man who never made any thing, except perhaps a had law, to. bcs compelled to make a shoe or gate, would be held by the whole class of do-nothings as perfeetl, borrible.
 sSBy an examination of.the laws of q people il may be clearly seen which elas. has made them. If in the law of lsigI roads 1t be forbidden that plantation should grow by the hedgeside in a com mon farm, but the same plantation be permitted in a park, to the injury of the road, it is thence clear that park owners have made the law. If privileges are accumulated by any particular set, we may be sure that 1t is this set which has been employed in law-making.
 Those who have iong been in the hab. it ofmakng laws. come to be considered as the only right lawmakers, and as il has seen that the do-nothipgs not only make laws, but also arc the chief opin. ion-iormers, and esteem themselves greatly, 1t necessarily follows that the greater part of mankind view them 1T their own light, and take them at theil own value. This is the plan which hat been pursued; bymeans oft avery few have long had the command oft whole world. Being in possession of some pow CT to begin with. they have multiplied