The Southern journal., 1846-01-10
Turn the (rindstone.

Turn the Grindstone.
We never see stout able.bodied fellow
going about, and soliciting aid from the
charaitably inclined, with the pretence of
having met with some terrible misfortune
by FIRE, earthquarke, Or shipwreck, than
we involuntarily long to see him compel
led 10 labor for a living like an honest man,
and net seek to impose upon kind-heart-
ed and credulous community. But these
men will not cork, SO long as work is not
necessary for subsistence. Offer them
employment, and they will vanish FORTH
with, like ghost at the Growing of the
cock. And this reminds US Of a story
which we have somewhere seen, the scene
OF which is laid in country town.
Astout, rugged, hearty fellow, one
morning accosted the keeper Of the Poor
House, demanding food and labor, and de-
claring that he could not find any work,
although he was willing to do any thing
whatever. 81
"You shall not starve,'' said the superin-
tendent, "provided you are willing to
work.
lie gave him some breakfast, and sci
him to turning large griadstone; withou,
any person holding any thing upon it to
grind, and agreed to give him half dollar
day as wages. The fellow took hold,
and for few minutes labored with great
alacrity, but soon his business began 10
lag. The paupers, old and young, wo.
men and children, came out to stare at
him.
"What fool am H. said he, ssto be tur.
ming the grindstone, here with nothing to
grind.
And dropping the crank he bounded
offlike greyhound, and never returned
for charity or wages!
LazIness often makes paupers, and we
wish that the laws would compel The lazy
vagabonds, who are now travelling through
the country levying contributions upon the
public, TO turn the grindstone.
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The Albany Argus, in speaking of the
capabilities ofthe United States, uses the
following glowing language:
In wheat it is the granery of the world.
In cotton, it is the only region without a
rival. In lDdian corn, what country can
show even comparison. In tobacco,
where is the region that can meet the south
and southwest? Even in sugar. since the
annexation OF Texas, we are more than
likely to compete, not only in quantity but
in quality, with the best sugar raised in the
heretofore West Indies. Our lead mines
can easily supply the world. Our iron in
its abundance, in the extraordinary variety
of its ores, and in the easiness of working
the mines, throws even the iron region Of
Great Britain in the shade. Then, too.
our coal is more abundant, and better
quality, than is found in all the rest of the
globe. Pennsylvania alone has, at least,
twelve distinct varieties, and what is of
no less Importance, the coal and iron ore
lay side by side, thus affording to the hand
Of labor, wealth far greater than the gold
mines Of Potosi. Copper is also spread
out 10 us in lis richest proflsion. The
working Of the mines of the northwest in
dicates that the ore Is so superior that we
can command the copper trade of the
world.
We could alude to the gold mines of
the southern States, as manifesting that
our country is moi even destitute of that
medium of "universal exchange" which
so deeply excites the avarice as we'll as the
enterprize of man. Yet the wheat. the
cotton, the iron and the coal of our coun-
try, far transcend, in value the gold and
silver mieus of Peru and Mexico and Bra.
zil.
Let every Man who loves HUI
manity, Read This.