New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-10-22

pith and moment Those who profess 30 De thelr
cb,mnir,s .nd friends are the assailants and the
rich are compelled 10 stand upon the defensive
Nd ,hev annot fail 10 look with an evil eye upon
hose who make them the objects of vindicuve and
;nce.sant attack. Let them dsdain the counsels
| of those false friends, until they shew some
| real grievance. Let them scout this misplaced
clarnor about the and the rich; It belongs not
10 our couatry. They toe ready TO take Of
fence; prone to construe mere inadvertence . the
malady, if not marking. into Premeditated insult
| 1t is not wise to employ microscope at our Ia
bles, TO examine even the pure5t of elements; II
is more foolish still to employ a mental micro
scope in our social intercourse. If they exact
courtesy from others, they must be ready TO repay
it in kind The law of true civity is law of
reciprocity. IF, instead Of spending so much
time and energy in mutual quarrels, they would
join heart and hand in all great and good under
takings the one contributing means the other the
skin and labor, they would accomplish more for
| themselves and their country in one year ,haR BY
| hftv years of dissension And this result can be
effected BY the observance of that simple precept
! which, as regulator of social Intercourse, may
| well be denominated the golden rule
Be 10 their faults little blind,
Be TO their virtues very kind.
We should not forget that there are those who
grace and gladden. festivities by their presence
who do not mingle with US, indeed, in the walks
of business, but who exert more potent influence
upoa the affairs of men than are always will
| ing to acknowled ge-whose empire is absolute
over the world of fashion-whose appearance in
the midst of dissensions is like the radiant bow
| that spans the storm. IF their smiles do some
times kinde discussion, they oftener allay it; and
| would invoke their gentle influence in the work
| e ,,h,p tb,y,u
bestow more Of their kind regards upon those ath-
etic and manly forms that make our hillsides and
valleys laugh and sing with the wealth of golden
harvests, and less upon those whiskered and bediz-
ened apes that infest the drawing groom, we should
love them better, and our country would indeed re-
gard them as her jewels.
| There is one duty more, of the highest impor-
lance, which, in conclusion, invite your atten-
tion-the duty of holding in just esteem all the
occupations in which men are engaged.
| What honest vocation can be named that does
not contribute in q greater or less degree, to the
enjoyment of man? 1t may be humble indeed
| but it goes to swell the mighty aggregate; it may
be the rl that trckles from the mountan-side but
it dfuses fertility through the valley, and mingles
its drops at last with the ocean. The Ameri-
| can motto is and must be-marked upon our fore
heads, written upon our posts-channeled in
the earth and waited upon the waves-ISDUsTRY-
| LABOR Is HONORABLE, and idleness is dishonor-
abe,-and | not, if it be labor, whether 1t be
of the head or the hands.
Away with the miserable jargon of the political
economists, who write so complacently about the
producing and non-producing classes. 1t has no
foundation in nature in experience. Whitney,
whose coton-gin doubled the value of every acre
of land in the South. raised more cotton with his
head than any other ever raised with his hands
Let me exhort those of you who are devoted to
intellectual pursuits, to cherish, your part an
exalted and Just idea of the dignity and value of
manual labor, and to make that opinion known in
your words and in the earnest OF your actions
The laboring men of this country are vast IN num-
Der and respectable in character. We owe to them,
under Providence, the most gladstone spectacle the
sun behold. in its course-a land of cultivated and
fertile fields, an ocean white with canvass. We
owe to them the annual spectacle of golden har-
vests, which carries plenty end happiness alike to
| the palace and the cottage. We owe to them the
| tortresses that guard our coasts-the ships that
have borne our flag to every cline, and carried the
thunder of our cannon triumphant over the waters
That demon steed, which leaps the valley and
doshes through the mountain pursues his fleet ca
reer over roads which they have constructed. he
vast city which surrounds US, the august temple in
which we stand, are the works OF their hands;
md when look uponthese gigantic achievements,
say, homer to the laborer' We laud and mag
,lfv the hero who has stormed city and driven
the poughshare of Iuin over its habitat'ons letus
lere laud and magnify the heroes OF our country,
Who have made the wilderness blossom like the
rose, and the solitary place glad with the fires OF
thousand happy homes.
But why should multiply illustrations ofwhieh
here would be no end since can say of all, in the
words of poet, whose memory we venerate:
"Act .reli your part, there a | the honor les