The Columbian fountain., 1846-01-27
The tears Of JOY in one eternal day.''

"N'iSS
lakes and pond, adding interest to the scene. The
little birds, as if in world Of their own, warbled
fearlessly their songs Of praise, and hoped unre
strained among the branches. Mount Auburn
Never, never shall forget thee, never forget the
place dedicated to the shades of departed ex-
cellence and beauty. Oh, could | find resting
place SO sweet, when life's weary pilgrimage is
over, would willingly lie down in dreamy
quietude until the morning of the resurrection.
Yes, could but lie,
i In thy deep quiet groves
Methinks would die,
Where the birds warble sweet
Among the green bowers,
And the graves Of the biest,
Are border9d with flowers.
SAG HARBoR, L. |. Sept. l845.
From the Mechanics Mirror
WHAT THE MECHANICAL CLASS MAY
BECOME.
If anything can demonstrate the hand of
a righteous Deity in the nature and working
OF what may be termed mechanism in the
very peculiar mechanism Of trade, it is the
healthful impulse given to all its move
ments, wherever there is a reigning prin-
Ciple of virtue and sobriety i'll the land-so
as to insure an inseparable conexion be-
tween the moral worth and economic com
fort of people. OF this we should meet
with innumerable verificatlons in political
economy-did we make study Of the sci
ence, with the express design Of fixing and
ascertaining them There is one very beau
tiful instance in the effect which the frugali-
| ty and foresight of workmen would have, to
control and equalize the fluctuations OF
commerce, acting with the power of Gy in
mechanics; and so as to save, or at least
indefinitely to shorten chose dreary inter
walls Of suspended work or miserable wages,
which often occur in the trading world
What constitutes a sore aggravation to the
wrechedness of such season, is the ne
cessity Of overworking, so as, if possible,
to compensate by the amount of labor for
the deficiency of its remuneration and vet
| the inverse effect OF this i'll augmentng and
perpetuating that glut, or overproduction,
which is the real origin of this whole ca
lamity, 1t would not happen in the hands
OF people elevated and exempted above
the urgencies of immediate want; and no.
thing will SO elevate and exempt them, but
their own accumulated wealth; the produce
Of good economy and management in
prosperous times. If mechanics had such
wages, SO as they might save when they
were high, what they would spend when
they were low, so as when a depression
comes, 10 slacken, instead of adding 10 their
work, or even cease from il altogether,
could they only afford to live through the
months Of such a visitation, on their well
husbanded means, the commodities of an
overladen market would soon clear away !;
when, with the return of a brisk demand on
empty warehouses, few weeks instead Of
months would restore them TO importance
and prosperity in the commonwealth. This
is but single specimen from many others
of that enlargement which awaits the labor
ing classes, after that, by their own inteli-
gence and virtue, they have won their way
to it. With but wisdom and goodness
among the common people, the whole Of
| this economic machinery would work most
bene6cially for them-a moral ordination,
containing in it most direct evidence for the
wisdom and goodness of that Being by
whose hands it is, that the machinery has
been framed and constituted; and who, the
Preserver and Governor, as well as the
Creator of His Works, sits with presiding
authority over all its evolutions. But this
is only one specimen out of the many
the particular instance of quality that is
universal, and which may be detected in
almost all the phenomena and principles Of
the science; for throughout, political econo-
my is but one grand exempIifcation of the
alliance, which God of righteousness hath
established, between prudence and moral
principle on the one hand, and physical
comfort on the other. The first origin of
this blissful consummation is in the virtue
Of the people; but carried into sure and
lasting effect by the laws of political econo-
my, through the iudissoluble connecticut
which obtains between the wages and the
supply of labor--so that in every given
state Of commerce and civilization, the
amount Of the produce of industry and of
the produce of the soil, which shall fall to
the share OF the workmen, is virtually at the
determination of the workrnen themselves,
who, by dint of resolute prudence and reso-
lutte principle together, may rise to an inde-
6nitely higher status than they now occupy