Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1845-12-04


we all admit that
! ''Where the lady s in the case,
All other things give place.
And there s no use in looking for other
reasons, when one is Observation-Disclosures
might attribute your prediction to some
thing of that spirit of chivalry which at once
produces and is produced by passion for
such unrivaIled goerS as you have on Long
Island-lke the horse of Adonis, described
! by Shakespeare, in the universally of his
knowledge:
$50 does your horse excel a common one,
! In shape, in courage, color, pace, and bone"
One thing more will venture to suggest.
Small as are your farms, generally, conIpar-
ed with such as have been accustomed 10
see in the South, they must yet be titled. in
ia great measure, by hired force, such as
your neighborhood affords. Is it not, then
a matter appealing as we'll 10 Your interest
Ias to your benevoIence, that measures be
taken to confer some honorary distinction
in the way Of encouragement on laborino
men, who habitually hire out, to establish
for themselves character for sober and
moral ha6its2 And that married men. in
like circumstances, be induced to improve
the appearance and comfort of their humble
residences, by planting vines and shrubbery.
and Otherwise causing them to present that
aspect of neatness, which every passer-bv
would regard with admiration, as signs thai
rarely deceive, of more than ordinary merit
and rectitude on the part of the inmates?
More than mistaken-even wicked-is
the suggestion that such simple adornments
of his cabin are nnsuited to the condition
of the laboring man! Rather let the poor
est be encouraged to construct, of hewed
posts, the rudest sort of bower about his
door. Nature will kindly assist him to
cover it with the honey-suckle and the les
samine, that ask but little care; and, then,
what so sweet as his own Sweet 5riar, which.
the poet says,
s'Grows along
The poor girls pathway and the poor mans door"
Kindly lend your countenance, even at some
expense, if need be, to effect this reform:
and the wayfaring traveller, as he passes,
shall remark to himself that, within the
sphere Of this Society's influence, even the
poorest show igns of Moderation, and par
take OF the common refinement. Were it
not that | dislike to appeal to all sinister
motives, in case which so forcibly address,
es itself to the better feelings of our nature,
might add that your kindness would be
remunerated in the improved value of your
district, for it would then possess superior
attraction for the very sort Of people whom
all would be most ready to welcome. In
this work OF charity, | undertake to answer
Tor the hearty cooperation of every good
housewife and every fair daughter on Long
Island. Nature formed them for such Off
ceS; and he that invokes not their smiles on
every good undertaking is lamentabIy gno-
rant or regardless of the best means Of sue
cess.
For the ladies, themselves, where is the
mansion or the cottage in Hampstead, or its
vicinity, that does not display more or less
.ot the refinement which the love Of flowers
indicates; and, which, when once it breaks
out, spreads with natural and wholesome
.contagiousness over a whole community,
prompting us all TO unite in the apostrophe:
OolC lOll YOUR IrulLS ana mowers,
In mingled clouds to HIM whose sun exalts,
Whose breath perfumes you, and whose pencil
paints.''
And here the way opens for me to fall,
for the occasion, into the track of one of
my eloquent predecessors, though prudence
would warn me not to call up in contrast
with my own, the classical and brilliant
performances ofany Of those who have gone
before me on similar occasions. Yet my
sincere anxiety for the honor and prosperi-
ty OF every one who lives by the plough,
prompts NE to quote for your recollection
this remark of the Hon. Senator DIcKIN SON,
of New 7 ork: Sand is it. not" said he.
"lamentably true, that the.extreme doctrine
.of rewards and punishments, which has
practically obtained, by general consent, for
the last few years, and has been upheld and
Justified by all parties who have had the dis
pensing Of patronage, has done much, very
much to withdraw men from the sober par
suits of industry, and induced them to en-
bark their little all upon sea of political
troubles? To forego the cultivation of the
little farm, where peace and plenty are the
sure rewards ofindustrious and frugal habits,
to gain precarious subsistence by hanging
upon the skirts of party; politicians by trade
and ofice-seekers from principle" off"
added he, ''government seeks to entrench
itself about with office and patronage, and
relies for its strength on its PARISHES and
place-men and not upon the affections of
the people, it cannot win by its Justice, tho
for time it may terrify by its power" I
mean no more than he did, to make any but