Wisconsin herald, and Grant County advertiser. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1844-1845, 1845-05-03
For the Herald .

/ I, cannot have escaped the observation your
re aders. that the manners and morals Of large
cities are IN their yellow leaf" and Fastening TO
utter decomposition. Conscience, law and shame
seem to be losing their power over our CITY popu-
Intion and reason is only used TO accomplish the
ends Of the most ierocious passion. The boys in
Baltimore and Cincinnati, like young heroes, are
beginning to fire houses in sport A fire in Phila-
delphia, so exeiies the pUgnaciy Of the firemen,
that the members Of the different companies fall on
each othef like Salamanders. and their wrath is so
much hotter than the fire, that they feel perfectly
cool and comfortable, even among the living Goals.
horrid sympathy with the deyourIng element
sezes the by-slanders, and they demosh each 9TH
err, while the FIRE King yells 10 savage Triumph and
gathers his fellow fends to scatter hie-brands oge-
the helpless town.
The last fire in tina, city, animated the fremeh
TO a brutal rencontrc, III which lady had her jaw
bone broken. What is such brittle stuff as bones
worth. when the very brick-bats have learned a
habit Of biuising pates and breaking homes. Edu-
cation has been poisoned nj the fountain head, and
the virus streams fom he lips in oaths and Vows
Of vengance. When ! look upon the condition
of our cities, believe in Fourier less than ever.
| do not believe in hopping men together by a
corporation in soldering them like the Siamese
twins. Bring men within arms length of each
other-coinmunity, proximI,y-these are the plas-
tiers which are to cure all the evils which flesh IS
heir to, according TO a clique of oft defeated but
never vanquished Telormers. Contact injuries men
as much crowGing INJURIES cattle. How soon is
the epidemic hatched III the feyersh olt-breathed
air, and il descends in death. Crowding INJURIES
men moIe than il docs brues, men require more
space in proportion as their designs are vast, and
their powers rapable Of expansion The
farmer plants his hills OF aud potatoes at least
ward apart, and yet some cultvators of humanity
wish 10 gather the whole race into vast hil-a
hot.bed, not to terminate and grow but to smother,
suficate and mortify by contagion. All the babies
in the world to be pitched into one broad era
die aud rocked between two Fourier associations.
| There is scarcelya vegetable that can endure the
coruptng tendency Of contact, yet. despite these
plain intmations of nature, there are some men,
who, had they the power, are fool-hardy enough,
10 stack the whole 500, 000,0 900 Of human beings
into one NOV. II all flesh is grass, this is way
to keep it. To thrive well, men should be planted,
il possible, at least mile apart. Thus will they
commune with nature and natures god more. and
with each pther less, and thereby become more
god-like and moral. They will retain their natu-
raj ~ oportions, and neither head heart will be
worn away by Fiction With their neighbors. Deties
however, must be tolerated though the tendency
OF concentration has ever been 10 debliate and de-
prave mankind, segregation has made him noble
and god-like in mind and body In the first case.
man only men above, below arond him
i'll the latter, men disappear, and god and nature
occupy their places. tolerate cities Oh the score
Of necessity, but detest the advice OF those men
who are essayng TO persuade the country people to
burrow together like ground hogs Men have no
more business crowd together, than mile stones.
Must we sec, hear, taste, touch, feel nothing but
man! J. I. M.