Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1842-10-22

peculiarly attractive one, IN american society !,
not often dwet upon. II Is the homo of labor !,
lis hearth; It's iroside; its privacy; Its perfect
and manly independence. Every mans house rs
his castle, says our code Of civil liberty and
dy repnblicanIsni. Truly. II IS caste, not with
br!slng bayoneis-nor tnouthed cannons defend
ed but covered all over with the more Imrreg-
nable regis of the law. Yes, every mans house
is his castle. Bat IN no land is HE Fl cure So fully
carried ont in this; for aimos, say. that
every has his castle Look or large
cities. towns. and villages. Survey the
spectacle Of millions living IN quiet conteut. III
the small dwellings, OF honest industry. yirtu-
Gus and clever lad works out his appren iIceship
He becomes Journeyman. Then IA husband,
and a, once, he and his wiie seek 10 live by them
selves. They want the peace, the quiet, the pri
vacy the individua! independence which the A.
merican naturally seeks the child does It's
mothers milky fountain. They seek and they
find II too. Now he labors on. HIS 1alv labor
wins him a daily competence. He relies with
faith upon the promise implied in hs petition
Give us this day our daily bread" Here his
aiiectionate wife receives him on his return from
toll, aud shares with him doing her part} The
fruits Of his honest labor. Here his children are
born and nur,ured. Here, he lives on in quiet
and unobtrusive economy. Perchance, he is en-
Sled to plrchase his small and cheap dwelling
aud here, he hopes in turn to become master OF
workmen.
Now, in our land. we have our thousands and
tens Of thousands OF men and families, who live
from day to day upon the rewards Of daily la
Dor in the mechanic arts They live separate and
apart, each pair bringing up their own children In
their own way, with none TO modest Them. This
habit Of society swels the large cities. Small
houses. and cheap rents, are the pioneers Of i'm
proyement. The habit Of society furnishes en-
p!ovment TO thousands; and insensby builds up
streets and increases towns and cities. 1t is
HOME labor acting and Ie-acting on domestic
wants, and domestic interests that does all this
good. There is nothing like it in other countries.
Upon the continent Of Europe. in tho North, in
Germany, among the Dutch, and French, totally
different state of living is found One roof of a
great house, many stories high, with three or four
common and filthy great stair ways from garrett
TO cellar, covers and shelters a hundred families.
Some the first floor, some on the second some
on the third some on the fourth some the fifth,
"nd some ~sas Il hst 5 Ssa.y WAYS End drag their
garnet! Each floor is again subdvded into va
rious apartments, and the whole ted according
to circumstances. Such in the continental cities
are the dwellings, and residing places of the labo
rious and honest poor. The people the first
floor much strangers to those the fourth
and fifth and sixth, if they lived in different
regions. and spoke different languages.
In this way they live, and can live, far cheap
than our people can do or live. But the main
content OF existence IL gone. The sacredness OF
ones own treside IS a stranger TO their hearts,
Individual independence IS sacrificed TO economy
TO cheapuess: and labor, ha, ing no demands to
CRAFTY snch as the American feels TO be part and
parcel OF his existence, (by which be ees his du
" to society, which separates the sa.red pledge
OF his wife and children part in hs aours Of lei
end devotion from the rest Of inankindo is
content to carry on s'iled existorce. Such Ia
Dor can of course unGerbld us, and auderse!I us;
and we either force on many o our own PEG
pie this foreign state Of loathsome vassaage, or
may drive II back with IA firm and fearless
course Of American policy; and keep our noble
country and our countrymen til,Ir iust condi-
ton OF individual Independence, ~ as " g please.
We regard condition Of society. with all It's
attendants blessings of Indiy ii1a happiness as
far GbOre any questions OF dollars AID cents: fer
ADORE any question Of party. 1t san htnerican
question. Il involves American hppiness--t-
merIcan morals-American charadcr: and We
trust and hope that such an American course of
policy will be pursued, will faithfully protect
and shelter our own Countrvmen from such fatal
results.