The Illinois free trader and LaSalle County commercial advertiser. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1841-1843, 1843-05-12

In neighboring state, there lived a
gentleman who, upon the modern prlncl-
pie of rotation, That is, keeping one fat
office until he got fatter one, had man
aged to support a large family of children
in the best style without any of them ever
being necessilated to pursue any OF the
paths ofhonest industry. The eldest son,
at one time, wanted a new suit OF clothes,
which the father refused him; much to
the modification of his "npper class no.
lions. Whereupon, he run to his mother,
in perfect rage, eXclaiming "mother,
mother, am desperate l don't care
what do! I'm resolved! I'll do it
I'll do i'll" whats the matter. my
son :" asked the much agitated mother.
"Do you see these old clothes! They
are mean enough for laborer, and yet
father says | shall not have any new ones.
I'll be revenged on him I'm bound to
do it! I'm desperate | don't care
what do !" "What,' asked the tremb-
ling mother again, "you are not going to
kill yourself. are you" "Kill myself"
he calculated, "TlI do worse. I'll 90
hire myself to some farmer or mechanic
and mork until get clothes, and so dis
grace the family !" Here the half fain-
ting mother shrieked out Don't, don't
child, your fathers enemies will send the
news back East" Now. how many
children and parents are entertaining the
same false notions Of disgracelnlness of
labor! They resolve upon it only in
their fits of desperation and then they fear
it will be told of. 1t is this feeling above
the laborer and the propensity to scorn
him that constitutes the only arstocracy
in our country-a system prolific of vast
evil and cruelty, and which must be enti-
rely eradicated before man can reach tina,
equal condition with his fellow-man to
which his Creator designed him. And
how shall this be done Only by that
system of social reform which shall recog-
nize the true dignity of labor, which shall
take from it its present reproach and clothe
it in honor which shall look upon it as the
promoter of health, sobriety, morality and
good order in society, as paramount viz
tue and enjoined upon us by God. We
must look upon man as fellow man and
respect him as endowed with an MINOR
tai soul. And what is that soul AS
|, well might we ask what is God himself,
to whom Omnisciencc, Omnipresence,
and Omnipoience are accorded attributes.
As God has never been seen except in his
works, so the soul is never seen except
in its works. And as man lived not until
: God breathed into his nostrils the breath
of life and he became living SOUL" we
my consider that soul, which is life's
fountain, an inGnicsmal and atomic por-
: ton of God himself, impaired from his
} al-pervading nature and yet ever subject
: to his will, as being the superior endow-
ment of man over all other beings, hides
tructable, immaterial, immortal. For this
soul and not for the body that encases it,
nor for the gegaws that deck the encase-
: ment itself, should man be respected. The
soul has an intrinsic value, and makes
man still worthy the consideration of his
fellow man, never 10 be neglected and de-
spised, scOlled at and abandoned until vice
shall have so done its nerCect work tina,
=, .Ioa,;o., :. haioa. y;.,,,
al ie'ia''".'"', 10 "'Peies'' h'uo al
pertains exclusively TO no age, sex, rank
ar condition. Such heinz The case
| whence the wide gnlph between the self
STYLED Gunner class and the operative
/ which mus, be filled up before we car