New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-05-09
THE TRIBUNE.
Letters from The Old Man of the Mountain
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| o-le suppose I felt in the towering creatures
id n, tell you of hundredth part Of them May
b. shall, by.and.by if keep writing.
But would MT have you think thought more OF
,bs Lawyers than l do Of the rest Of the people.
dont think 30 much hear they aremore thought
Ofdown among you-they and other men that do nj
| work. But they are not by me | think OF pro
iessional men, SIS you call them, as do Of pro
lesion don't think so high Of ii as do Of prac
tce and doing. The people of all others, in my
1igment are The ones that raise the Corn and make
| The pows and things | do MT want Corn. live
| 90 clouds and thunder and on bat among you
| eating and drinking mankind, the important folks
! should think, would be the ones that Proutded-
he men that TILED the ground and the women that
kept house not forgetting the glorious boys and gals
that helped 10 afraid M almost alone in this
opinion friend Tribune; and the working people
themselves, ] m afraid, do MT agree with me-
They do MT think much OF themselves or their call
ing m afraid. And when stranger comes into
place, you II hear him, they tell me, asking who
the Lawyers are, and what Minister they We got
settled over thom. who they We got for Doctors.
Never who the great Farmers are, or the great
Carpenters or Blacksmiihs, the great House
wives These, friend Tribune, look upon as the
stay and staff of mankind--a kind of Providence
They propide for the world The others only help
cat or shift what is raised from hand TO hand, and
generally away from the hands that have any hand
in raising it. The working people help God pro-
ride for maakind-and look upon them as the
chief people ] wish shey knew n little more
They will, when they come 10 think RICH, OF Labor
and from what 1 can see. judge that time s
coming [, will be a knowing world, friend
Tribune, when the working people come to be the
thinking people People think amazing deep and
wholesome, when they thilk at work; that is, when
they do MT work too hard, and feel above board.
told you about some of our Lawyers. / We
rood mind to tell you OF our Farmers here | will
about one have in my minds eye, as The Team
ser used to say in my memorya eyo-for he il
deud He was MT born in New Hampshire. He
come from Connecticut. He lived just below me
here. in little, hard town, called Campon.
don't know friend Tribune, you II like TO have
me tell YOU Of our old Farmers. living in thick
settled, popular place you do and printing
paper every day. But you have nj n man in ali
York State much less in your town, that you
would have said, if you had known him. was
lkcler man, or better man. or more q man.
than Colonel HOLMES of Campton! Colonel Sam
Holmes all but the Colonel. That do nj think
any thing of-nor he MT though twas just alter
the old Revolutionary War. when 1t was some
thing to be Colonel 10 what it is now Ihey
forced Il on to him. ont know but you are
Colonel. friend Tribune The Tribune used to DO
sort Of Colonel We heard say Any way OLD
Colonel Holmes was one OF the h&ehes' men, l
don't know but l may say the very likehcsi nave
ever seen among men. Though he was all DIS
DAYS Farmer here among the rocks, aud scarce
ever went of of his farm for fifty years lie begun
down here in Campton. when there had hardly been
n stroke struck in the woods There was little
snot of clearing believe on the 10, he d went on
,o-and log barn had been put up ON IL lie ana
his wife lived in the barn all Summer the hrsi sum
mer they come up here from Connecticut. They
come all the way-he atoot win MS aA o''' MS
shoulder and she ahorsobsck with the bed bound
ON behind her. and the copper kettle hanging oy
the old mares side. Ii was all they had ana lhe
roads wa'u't near 80 good then as they are now
Colonel Holmes was n young man then-Just ou'
ofbis time He lived on that land fifty years, and
died on il he was hardly ever out OF towne on OF
his farm. They teased him TO so 10 General Court
one wear, believe, but could nj make HIM so again
"Itwas small business" he said, 'tor any body 'ha'
had any other 10 mind" And he said III was oaa
thing 10 have SO many laws and TO be unkerins 'hem
over so often" He cared nothing about ONCE or
politics or parties. He never read the newspapers
or took any of them I've understood, and ana n |
read any books He did Mt need 10. de said out
liue. but what he said was always right he was
as sensible man, friend Tribune as ever ben
oh hnttsr ma to III
and a greater. take all the circumstances be hved
there, all alone, rs itwere and cleared up MS tafu
and did an amount of good there, all unpraised ana
unseen and for the sheer good and beauty OF H. rs
hardly believe Ben. Franklin was man enoush 10
have done. He had grand old fashioned 'arni'
and grew iorehanded and finally rich. without ever
trying to, or caring any thing about money ne
never was Woodworking msn. Hardly ever
worked till he so, tired, Never hurned de
would nj hurry for thuuder.shower IN hay time
LIE, il rain" he would say" it will do somebody
some good. What signifies killing ourselves for
load of hayi" He never drove bis men. and never
hurried them, excep, table, and then not TO have
them get done. Come" he would say, all hands,
take hod-there S enough" And i, was royal 10
see him sitting at the head of his Old long kitchen
table, with his twenty men, and as much the equal
Of the humbles, of them all he could possibly be-
with his great. generous hear, aud princely head
de had head. friend Tribune. worth going
journey 10 see-an old Connecticut, Roger Sher-
man sort of head by the ;ell-tor | never saw
Roger Shermans head-though l have Colonel
Holiness when he was at work, bare-headed IN
his field among his men. 1t was nj head like
Daniel Webster's or 'Zekiels-not one of these
high, precipice sort of heads. II a mid
ding forehead for hight, but wide and beautifully
pi,ched-a sort OF honest MAS forehead and head,
covered over with hair fine as silk, and laying in
tcfts like feathers on the neck of an esgle-and along
after he was sixty, as white as Moosehillock of u
November morning.
twas princely to see the old man working about
among his men. He had small, gray eye-al
serse and hones,y-and looking es if he could nj
bear any thing ungenesoas or small And tina, was
hta IL.