The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1842-03-22
Senate Prayer.
House Prayer.
OCC u r A ITO N S.

There is not more foolish notion aaoat in Tho
world, than the one that it is patton that gives
the character TO man. One occupation as the
means of"geltiDg living" as the phrase goes, is
precisely high and crediiable another, provI-
dod that it be honorable aud in accordance with The
laws Of God and man. The man who holds the
plough, hamnlers tho iron, drives the peg suy
ply his family with the necessares Of lie, not q
whit below the one who measures tapo behind the
counter, mystifes law at the bar, presides over
the councils of the nation. There is u vulgar and
pcrnicious feeling abroad in the community on this
subject. Fathers must educate their sons for ono
Of what is called the ''learned professions. -
Daughters must marry lawyer, a doctor, clergy
man, or merchant. Horror. the good lady would
as soon think OF marrying her daushier to Winnie
bago, as to a ho;noiy industrious, honest mechanic.
Why, the family would he dsglaced, the name dis
,honored. No! No. The business of carpenter,
a blacksmith, farmer, is not so respectable as
shaving notes, drawing stoidny from the desk, ped
ding rotten wood pls,o selling snuff and tobacco.
y nd yetsthe duties OF all the learned professions,
rs we'll as those of merchants, performed for
the same reason that shoemaker wakes his thread,
and the farmer plants his potatoes, viz: for liv
ing. Still, set of miserable upstart fools, who
are almost universally low bred people themselves
people who begun life in the ditch, endeavo or 10
establish in society artificial distinctions which
they hope will elevate them above the common
mass from which they were taken, and give to
them Importance which innate worth and homes
ty could not command. Labor is abor-honest labor
is honest labor. Honesty and honorable labor is
the same, whether performed by the king, or the
beggar and it is just honorable in the one as in
the other. 1t is true, that all men by habit and by
taste are fitted to pursue the same vacations,
and there are natural divisions, not distinctions,
as The word is commonly used created by harmony
and taste This is as it should be, and fits US for
discharge ofal the peculiar duties that devolve up
on members Of society. But to say because
man performs any given duty, however humble,
though necessary, degrades him or renders him
less merilorious than his neighbor, >who performs
another duty vet not more faithfully, is TO say we
still adhere TO the monarclcal principles Of the
old world. -5,tb sa ass.T .fubIaat au,'
Let the father educate tho TO some honorable
calling, and he has predictions Cor any particu
lar business as often ID the case let him follow 1t,
if it be possible, lit is the man that ennobles the
business not the business that enuobes the man,
and not spend thought upon the distinctions in oc
cupatons, honorable 81 honest, that fools have at.
tempted to build up, Let children be taught to be
honorable, honest and upright, to ser proper val
ue upon the riches of the world which at best but
bubble, blown into existence TO day TO burst TO
morrow, and To understand that the only true and
zeal distinctions in society are those of virtue and
vice, and the only true and enduring riches are an
intellect duly cultivated affections schoood, and a
heart that knows no gue.-Sprit of Ms. Age.