The North-Carolina standard., 1845-10-01
THE MOBILITY OF LABOR.

THE MOBILITY OF LABOR.
The Albany Argus contains spirited and in,
teresting account Of the late Agricultural State
Fair at Utica, New York. That paper says:
"Four years since, when the first State Fair
was called at Albany, it was considered matter
of doubt Whetherthe great experiment would sue
ceed. II was deemed more than questionable
whether eVena sufficient number of visitors could
be induced to come there, to pay the expenses IN
getting upthese Farmers Festivals. That Fair
was held, and il succeeded beyond the most san
guine expectation 1t was found to be most al
tractive place to visit Those who went messen-
gerlike, soon spread the news in their several
localities, and those who neglected 10 go, after
wards regretted that they had lost so much plea
sure. The next State Fair was held at Syracuse.
The gathering was large, and the exhibition fine
The next at Rochester, where Western New
York poured out its richest treasure and its thou
sands and tens of thousands of people In 1914,
it was given to the Hudson River Counties at
Poughkeepsie, and most nobly did Eastern New
York repay that honor, by an exhibition worthy
Of her past reputation, while the people gathered
there not by thousands, but tens of thousands, to
celebrate this great annual holy y-day. In 1S45
the Fair was awarded to Central New York at
Utica, from which so many thousands have re-
Gently returned to their homes and where the ex-
bibition in the really useful has surpassed that OF
any previous year"
The same paper continues in an admirable
strain:
at requires but little perception to see that farm
ing is becoming fashionable in this country.
Young men of position, wealth and education,
now pride themselves upon having finely man.
aged farm, and a superior breed ofstOck At the
late fair we met young men of fortune and finished
education scarcely in their majority, who have be-
come farmers, and who pointed with peculiar
pride to the articles they had raised for exhibition.
The influence ofsuch examples is scarcely to be
Ten years since such was the diseased
state of Public Opinion in relation to farming they
would have been almost ashamed to acknowledge
that they were farmers. But those days ofsickly
sentimentality have passed, and healthier and
sounder tone is Infused throughout the State, and
we may hope throughout the Union. The cult.
vation of the soil isnow regarded with real pride.
The toll hardened hand and the sun5urnt face are
no longer esteemed reproach. Labor is aP-
preaching the true dignity of its position, while
the devotees of Incidence begin to be estimated as
they should be, in republican country like ours"
When will the I" days of sickly senlimentality"
be over in North Carolina2 When will those of
our young men who are now fashionable idlcrs,
cease to be So and turn their hands either to farm
ing or to some useful branch of the mechanics
The Register said week or two since, "the
curse of the country is the demagogues who nfest
it." We put the idlers into the opposite scale
IF there were no idlcrs there would be but few
demagogucs. The truth is, many Of our young
men have been ruined, perhaps for life, by the
mistaken kindness of parents, and by the false
and perncious notion that labor is dishonorable
The toil-hardened hand and the sun-burnt face"
are esteemed by many ga reproach and that
100 in the face of what the North has done and is
now doing for itself by perscvering and WELL
directed labor. The North outworks US, and
what is the consequence To a great extent we
are dependant upon it. Our enterprising fellow
citizens there make for US our shoes and hats,
our cloaks, and coats, and pantaloons, our nails,
and most of our axes, our labor-saving machines,
and indeed threefourths, perhaps, of the whole !
amount of our domestic consumption. Let US do
for ourselves Let the old men of the
country see to it that the young men are raised TO
labor, and accustomed to effort and endurance.
Here as in other portions Of the country, the pro-
essions are all crowded. Shall we crowd them
,till more, and thus encourage quackery and petit
logging while our lands are neglected and our
silentf Let the truth be taught to our
>HItOIGu " HOuSS-HOiO WOlu3 tudI IdOOI 10
of the hands, as well as ofthe head
Let them be instructed in the arts of producing
nd constructing. They can never be great or
lseful men, without hard labor of some sort.
The grand and prominent idea of the age
yrosps at substance, and not at shadow. What
ever the surface of things may be-however or
lament, and tinsel, and show may glitter TO the
we, still down deep in the hearts of the millions
s the one large living idea of UT1LITY-and this
will make itself the more seen and felt as the re-
sources of the country are developed Labor
must ultimately take the place of idlencss, and the
e6nements and elegancies of life will then be left
o take care of themselves. The radcalism of Ia
,or, which makes men of all the masses, is CON-
ng on apace. Capital is now the strong arm: as
aoor will be then. The Press of the country
IAN do much in this behalf Let it send forth, as
I should under all circumstances and unceasing-
Y, voice to cheer the laborer, and TO give tone
,gGinss the fashionable idleness that prevails.
CHARLESTON MERCURY.
The Raleigh Register publishes as editorial
he following from the Alexandria Gazette:
"The sUnion cuts the Charleston Mercury