Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1844-01-20

friend and companion: not to solcmnize your
mind, and check your huoyant thoughts, with
austere precepts and dOgmatical rules but to en-
list the viyacty of your spirits in pleasant con-
versation upon subjects of attractive interest and
cheerful aspect. Let me come to speak of what
others have done and you may do, to be wise, hap
by aud useful III this life and that other sphere of
existence, to prepare for the employments of
which, is the great object of human education; to
set up some guide marks along the road that is
conducting you into the INFESTED realities Of the
future.
hope these interviews-in spirit if not in per-
Ison-will not only be entertaining, but instructive.
One hour week, you may deem insufficient for
many lessons in any branch of Information. 1t is
SO, indeed, of ITSELF but, if the conversation of
that hour should set your mind thinking for
whole week, that little fragment of time would
ASSUME vast Importance and value. For | con
ceive, that not only one hour day, or week, but
all time, and all the objects Of sense, and all the
necessity of labor and motives to action, are eX.
Icluslyey designed to educate the mind into an ey-
,rrlastng activity and capacity Of acquisition
which shall fit it to do, in future state, what an
gels are doing new, and what they shall do here
after in their progress to higher attainment.
viii not tell You now, into what fields Of tho't
and study intend 10 Introduce YOU, during the
coming year; for you might shrink at the prospect
from that iaAcious qualify Of sense, which makes
small things o. llicnl4 in the distance. would
merely say, thTfu my aftlu0uS duties do not I'M
pair my health, intend e. initiate YOU into the
philosophy Of History, Language, Logic, Mech
anraI, Astronomical, Agricultural, and Mercan-
tile Science; into the philosophy Of Humanity,
Religion, Law, Life, and Coalm0n Sense. Start
not at this Formidable array of Subjects for they
VIII rose the'f r!$" aspect when you get TO them.
And now, my dear nephew, cannot close this
hasty communication, without congratuIating YOU,
first, that You are launching out upon the ocean Of
Lie ~ I344' Every young man in this country. s.,
especially every Apprentices, ought to be grateful
for the auSpl'lols Influences that are thrown a.
round hlm, to deyclopc the best qualities Of his ma
ture ana inspire him on TO high attaimncuts in
MORAL and intellectual excellence. From the pres
emit hereafter and forever it viii cost every young
> man OF New England, more obstinate effort to be
/ ignorant than wise. The Printing Press, if may
: SO say, IS stereoyring the heavens with legihe
thoughts, aud sowing the air with beautiful ideas
=, until to KNOW is 20 BREATHE. | am aware that
the atmosphere has long been murky with the in
sIpd iistIllments OF fiction, Cyhacd from the low
Il grounds OF perverted intellect. know that the
- Press, that great engine Of truth, has been forced
/. INTO the hands OF unprinciplcd 'dcMagogues, who
# have turned all It's power into the service of the
/ Sellsh ambition; until more than half the nation
h has been intoxicated with the artificial frenzy o
~ lean, corrodng, unchl isan politics. But the pres
: IS at work upon the minds and hearts of this gen
;s Grafton. 1t is repairing, slowly, the mischief i
e has made; it is laboring under conviction of il
SINS; ana It's conversion to the cause of God ant
T. humanity, will introduce a new era in the condi
: ton of man.
& IL IS another subject Of graduation with me
A. that, although born in Georgia, YOU are permtte
10 serve out your apprenticeship in New England
$. out OF the presence Of Slavery, For | canno
ne conceive how it can be possible for young ma
is TO acquire practical education and virtuous haE
n It's WithIn the influence Of that institution, whic
10 associates degrJdatOn with personal labor, actv
10 ty ana enterpri.e$ There would never have, bee
i New England FOR New England people OF
,+l the globe, if labor had not been honorable, a
49, well us necessary and profitable, along the who'll
DIS length of our crock bound shore. ,, And no | III
-. timated that it would be the most valuable reSu
% of our one hour interviews, to suggest thought
is which should occupy your mind during the labor
49, OF the week, let me give you this lesson for you
on reflections, until visityo again.
is The peace, prosperity, intelligence and virtu
IN OF any country or community, depend upon tn
~ necessity of labor, and the honor they attach to
~; In this is also involved the propositions that ma
~; i, ural sterty of SOIL and severity of climate, an
III the absence Of all mines of gold and silver, al
r perpetual elements of wealth and ENTERPRISE
nd When looking over the map of the world,
he passing through the country, YOU will easily re-
III oSnSe the eY:Iencc of this principle, which is
In true and apparent in the of single indiyd
nd al as nation or community. Y GU need not tray
,c mile for an illustration. Compare, for instanc
the towns that lie along the fertile valley of Il
Connecticut with the villages that line the mou
b tam streams III the interior; where the rugged ste
NV Ily OF the soil has created such an ingenious c
nj orgy of character and enterprise. The valley
,nd the Mohawk, c0ntrasod with sections of less fe
ror tity, will present the same curious disparity
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