The Arkansas advocate., 1834-08-29

l
 but these dtones iii society who add mo-
 thing to the common stock, have no right to draw any thing from it.
 The contempt felt fer the mechanlc--for,
 disguise 1t as you will, he IS desPised-is a
 Iamentable circumstance, and should be re-
 probated and removed. The world con-
 temns its real benefactors, and respects those vino are to it of no service and who live at the expense of the very men whom they despise. Nor Is this strange. The influence of woman, which always gives a tone to society, is in this case exerted to the injury of its best interests and to building up laziness, and idleness, and vice, and ce- menting the fabric till 1t shall be everlast- [ ing. This Is harsh, but 1t is true neyerthe- less. No matter how intelligent, how hon est, and how respectable 6 mechanic may be, in this place and thousand other
 places, it is with lingering and loathing almost, that he is admitted into society,"
 The young lady shriniks from his attentions, for the fear of ridicule-and he IS continu- ally told by superciliousness and haught- ness that he is above his grade. And all the while he sees the lonnger at the cor ners, the man who has no business. the gambler and blackleg, not only admitted into company, but aattered, and fawned upon and treated like that which such men least resemble, namely, a gentleman.-- These things should not be so They are a burning disgrace to society-a caricature upon our common sense, and, what is worse, fertile source of vice and crime.
 "Durng period of 27 years, in which I have been attending the Courts of this Commonwealth, tbis is the first instance in which have seen five white men, four ot them young men, with early prospects fair and respectable, convicted at one term, of crimes prohibited by the laws of all nations, and forbidden by the commandments of God. l The scene in a community small as ours, IS we'll calculated, especially in connexlon l with some other developments, to shake the hopes of those, who boast of the pro- gressive improvement, virtue and intelli- gence of our people. Whether the cause ! exists in our social institutions, Tn our false 1 pride of character, or in the original depra- vity of our nature, 1t Is not material to de- termine: but the manifest aversion of so many of our people to every species of ac- tual labor; their strong inclination to in- temperance, idleness and show; and their seeming determination 10 live by their Wits, instead Of their works, may well fill the bosom of every patriot, indeed every fedectlng man, with dismay for the future condition of our country. Too many who are barely able to subsist without labor themselves, bring up all their children, no matter how numerous they be, to the same expectations--to regard labor as fit only for slaves-to feel themselves above it-and to commence what Is called genteel life, that Is, too often, life of indolence, extra vagance, and intemperance, without any earthly means of honestly sustaining it for
 l2 months. The inevitable consequence Is, that many of them resort to some of the various means, prohibited, in all ages and nations, by which the property of others Is dishonesty used to sustain that vicious, unnatural, and otherwise impractcable course of life. This has doubtless been the condition of both of you. Unused to early labour, aspiring to that style and con- dition of life which persons of much ann pier means are barely able to sustain; too lazy and too falsely proud, to began course of frugalty and industry; you have been driven to the necessity, as you thought, of getting money by some means or other; and thus you have been brought to your present wretched condition--one which l sincerely commiserate, and would gladly relieve, if the laws and the interest of society would permit me-"
 "RATs."-yerily, these little animals have been of great annoyance to our neigh Dor of the Gazette, of late. A week or two since, he was very vocifeious about the i" rats ia the Post office" in consequence of his having sustained loss of some seven-
 ty or eighty dollars by the mails. Ttwould
 seem from the following article, which we copy from the editorial column of Tues
 days Gazette, that there are "rats" in an-
 other direction; which, according to the
 showing of our aforesaid neighbor, have