Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1845-02-10
c1In INDEPENDENCE

s,,rbefore an audience in good part
of Edn1ed men, andI plead for the es-
s,nti,l hependence Of their class-not for
their s,ies only or .,ainly, but for The sake
Of Mapkind. seeclearly, pr am strange
ly byvildered, deep-rooted and wide
speeding evil"hich is palsying the infu-
ence and parIyzing the exerlions Of Intel
lectual and wen Moral superiority all over
our County. The Lawyer, so far atleast
as his likelihood is concerned, is too gen
orally BIT a lawyer; he must live by law
or he has no means Of living at all. So
with the Doctor; so, alas! with the Pastor!
He, too, often finds himself surrounded by
large, expensive family, few or none of
whom have been Systematically trained 10
earn their bread in the sweat OF their brows,
and who, even if approaching maturity in
life. lean on him for subsistence.-Ihls
sea must be sent to an academy, and thut
one 10 college; this daughter to an expen
sive boarding school, and that must have
piano-and all TO be betrayed from his sal
airy, which, however liberal, is scarcely or
barely adequate to meet the demands upon
il. Now shall this man-for man, after
all he is-with expenses, and cares, and
dek,s pressing upon him-hope to be at
nA times faithful TO the responsibilities of
bis high callngl He may speak ever so
quen,ly and feeIingy against sin in the alb
stract, for that cannot give offence TO the
most fasiidously sensitive incumbent ofthe
richly furnished hundred dollar pews.-
By will he dare to rcbuke openly, fearless
ly, specially, the darling and decorous vi
ces Of his mos, opulent and liberal parish
ioners--io say TO the honored dispenser of
liquid poison. "Yom trade is murder, and
your wealth the price of perdtion!" To
him who amasses wealth by stinting honest
Labor Of lis reward and grinding the faces
Of the Poor, "Do not mock God by putting
your reluctant dollar into the Missionary
box-tdere is no such heather in Nep Zea-
land as yourself r'-aad SO to every spe-
cious hyPocrte around him, who patronizes
the church 10 keep 10 windward of his CON
science and freshen the varnsh on his
character, "Taou art the man !" | tell
you, friends he will not, for he cannot af-
ford TO, be thoroughly faithful! One in
thousand may be, and hardly more. We
DO not half comprehend The profound signi-
ficance OF that statute of the old Church
which enjoins celbacy on her Clergy
The very existence Of the Church, as
stcadtast power above the multitude, giving
.i.,w to the People and no: receiving It's law
day by day from them, depends on its main
tenance. And if we are ever 10 enjoy a
Christian Ministry which shall systemal-
culy, promptly, fearessIy war upon every
shape and disguise of evil-whch shall
fourlessly grapple with War and Slavery,
and every loalhsome device by which man
seeks 10 glut his appetites at the expense OF
ais brothers. well being, it will be secured
to us through the fundamentally of the
very Reform advocatc-a Reform which
shall render the clergyman independent Of
bis Pensioners, and enable him to say
manfully 10 all, "You may cease TO pray,
but shall not cease 10 preach, so long as
YOU have sins TO reprove, and have strength
10 rcprove them! | live in good part by
the labor Of my hands, and can do SO Who'll
ly whenever that shall become necessary
10 the fearless discharge o. my duty -
A single illustration more, and draw
this long dissertation 10 a close. shall
speak now more directly to facts within my
own knowledge, and which have made on
me deep and mournful impression.-l
speak TO your experience, too, friends OF
the Phoenix and Union Societies-to your
future If not 10 your past eXperience--and
entreat you TO heed me Every year
sends forth from our Colleges an army OF
brave youth, who have nearly or quite ex'
bausied their little means in procuring wha
is termed an education, and must now find
some remunerating employment 10 sustain
them while thsy are more specially fitting
themselves for and Inducing themselves in
to Profession. Some of them find anc
are perforce contened with some meagrt
clerkship; bu. the great body of them turn
hs.r attention at once 10 Literature tic
the instruction Of their Juniors in soma
school or family, or 10 the instruction Of
the world through the Press. Hundreds o.
them hurry al once TO the cities and the
journals, seeking employment as essayist:
or collectors Of nieligence-bright vision:
Of Famo in The foreground, and the gaun
wolf Famine hard at their heels.--Alas for
.hem! they do no, see that the very circum
stances under which they seek admission
10 the calling they have chosen almost for
bid the idea of their succeeding in it They
do not approach the public with thought:
struggling for utterance, but with stomach:
craving bread. They seek the Press, no
that they may proclaim through II what i
would cost their lives TO repreSs, but tina
they may preserve their souls 10 their bod
les, at some rae. Do you nos see under
what great disadvantages one of this bard
enters upon his select vocation, if he has
the rare fortune 10 find or make place In
ii He is surrounded, clbowed on every
side by anxious hundreds, eager 10 obtain
employment on any terms, he must write
not what he feels, but what another needs
mus, regret or rejoice to order, working
Tor the day, and NOT yenturing TO utter q
thought which it does not readily approve
And can you fancy that is The foundation
On which TO build a lofty and durable re:
nown-e brave and lauda6le success OF any
zine tell you. no, young friends
the farthest from it POSSIBLE. There is
scarcely any position more perilous to gen.
erous impulses and lofty aims-scarcelv