Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1844-02-02
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PROFESSOR HADDOCK's ADDRESS.
Concluded,

Concluded
hardly know which condemn good narod generous man
@ involved by carecsness vanity hopeless embarrassment ad
ventures dishonesty cme escape humiliation disgrace
or the man. who technically just the splitting hair propcrod
grows gray and cankered and corroded by the silver gold
Im capaeog1 soul to one gross passion and bues himself be
Its liabilities to abuse receives the benefit capital tina
secures his personal liberty that rewards his industry that educate
his children And capital will build Rail Road for the oppression
OF the public but for their convenience We all something
better than carry eghts cheap Railroads enable
opnoo to do We permit them, therefore, do for just
we employ others make shoes for long do something
else better than we can make them for ourselves and buy clothes
when and daughters do better than cm
present prices These roads take the travel from other bacau
9 pubic ind good economy to use them When the Western Ca
nal was first opened covered with by the farmers carry
ing then own poduc'j but was found that they could
the e. 'co 'S1 we're laid up on the shore
In reference to this subject the mistake is committed
Gomounang capital with money Money IS capital bet So eso
and SO Is machinery very small part Of the capital of country
IN money The lrmcr is capitalist; the manufacturer capitalist
Much the largest part OF capital is in real estate dised
the whole Of the land and giving substantial dependence
and mechanics of the country These classes thriving and ousn
under fostering government and gradually improving their estates
dt the
in the form of money Others from nclnaton inability pursue
or inherited from ei ancestors have their whole property money
capital in quest of investment But this cap is W no means il
few hands 1t abundant in large places but accumuon,
every where Being always command and convertible again int
money if well invested object of general desire conven
cnco provision against the accidents ofl, and for the setting
osons the setting daughters large part the proper
Of widows and infants, of nals and aged PERSONS and literary
1t should be borne mind too that under our institutions estates
are divided equally the children of the docoased and
about thirty the whole capital of the community passes through
the Probate Office for distribution heirs always educated
eGa to the dangers of accumulation in exact proportion the amour
OF their patrimony.
can with proprey sd therefore, that Rail- put
business of the country into dangerous hands few hands
to the hands of moned The business Of considerable par
of the population at all diminished by their influence It
what changed but increased rather than diminished 1t is done
more advantage to all concerned 1t is thus very circumstance tina
the capital of those in town who choose to stock m
er than land or ships, or cotton mills.
The general effect of public improvements of ali kinds and espec
lay Of roads and canals equze property and happiness not
accumulate them privileged ORDER fortunate few Human be
e same nerve and soul But placed by Providence very ere
we are unequ9y developed ana une9uy pyeged
swanps the brakes the wheat fields the mountain pastures
ed spots some must be farther oil than others And Whatever tends
lessen this difference of condition. by hatng distance and over
s OF difficulty tends just 50 far to d'' and ''"aA' the blessing
1t less than century Engond ho
common roads then extremely bad Railroads have become
within much shorter Now the country tnvesed by then
every direction But though strictly of commercial chapcte they
than the CITY, Within this period whole face of England has beer
changed 6s It's from being extremely rude ana
Paraeled manufactures naturally barren soil has become garden
estimated that the annual agricultural products England amount
Soooo0oO0o Its territory little larger than the State OF Maine
would hardly be visible of the United States And yet
he agricultural products Of our whole country are bu
We apt feel that New England ovesockeaa hive too d
and already obliged to drive Its to forage aong
uaton be doubled and tebed by the of her neXoustbe
water manufacture of her own raw material ana e IN
gen hame bring these basins of fertile ervao
ches these living streams and intimate intercourse with
the great of trade enterprise and half century
should scarcely know native land impulse would be felt
agriculture and all its institutions We should bet
ter fed and better clothed and better educated people The peri
cd OF the practical arts of science applied navgon and inland
communication the very period distinguished history for the
rise OF the mddng and lower classes for the distribution of wealth.
and the division power And the distinguished for the
extent OF their sea coast their navgbe and artificial channels of com
cao the countries most remarkable for competence indie
and comfort in the masses Of society Compare England
ctes of and bad roads the former perfect
the spectacle of fine men, good soil and not without
seats of learning and schools of general poverty
honoed institutions yielding gradually but inevitably the growing
Importance of the industrious classeshe city submitting the
It objected again that RRoads by introducing manufactures
mo inc he art OF the country divert industry from the primitive health
cries Of manufacturing and commercial places To this it Obvious
NATURAL limit Manufactures and open surplus
products and by thus increasing the demand for hem stimulate pro-
ducon awaken ingenuity improve processes agriculture and
cheaper its means and implements.
The introduction of manufactures interior country by
occaonng increased consumption of the materials building
fuel OF the various of provisions and other articles required
these esab en have the effect of bringing the farm
instead o0gng the farmer to 60 to the market In the case of
the manufacture of his products into articles for his cosump
ton as Of wool INTO CLOTH he the of double aora-
uo OF the raw material to the town. and that of the manufacture
OF comparative effects agriculture manufactures it
not easy to speak with entire confidence 1t has been the fashion,
tor some years. represent manufacturing places peculiarly immoral
h great manufacturing towns of England in ght sufficiently
deporabe and humatng 1t necessary deny the general
immense production of England sstan of life
comfort and luxury the bore wages distinction from
Of the SOIL and the manuacturen distinction
tenant and the subtenante day aboe unhappy
oppressed That he lives ALL however, he the pouc
uveness of his country that he shares the
ngs of his industry he the yet defects of the
government
writer in the last number of the Westminster Review maintains
the opposite doctrine and undertakes show from public documents
that the advantage point intelligence morals is rather in "a
yor OF the manufacturing than Of the agricultural districts of England
Manufactures of tend population
therefore to foster the peculiar evils bred But with all the
noaies and wTetchedness of portions of the population
England 1t usually understood that especially if taken
with Scoand manufacturing country also she presents the whole
population decidedly better educated better pncped and happier