Weekly miners' express. (DuBuque, Iowa) 184?-1849, 1847-11-24
q TIE DAILY NATIONAL wing
I OCCUPATIONS.

There 10 not more foolish notion a1oat
In the world than that it 10 the occupation
which gives character to the man. One oc
cupn,ion. as the means Of gaming liveli-
hood, is just as high and creditabie as an
other. provided that it be honorable, aud in
accordance with the laws Of God. The
man who holds the plough, hammers his
iron. or drives his peg to provide his faulty
with the necessaries of life, is not whit
below the one who measures tape behind a
counter, mYstifes the law at the bar, or
presides in The councils Of the nation
There is very vulgar and most pe.nicious
among the community on this subject Fa
Tiers must educate their sons for some one
| OF the 'eurned prufessiuns.' Daughters
must marry lawyer, doctor, clergy man
! or merchant. Oh, horror! the good lady
would as soon think Of marrying her dauslI-
ter to u Winnabago Indian, AS to q hon,e!y,
industrious, and honorable mechanic. Why,
the family would be dsgraced, the name
dishonored. No, no--the business OF u
blacksmith, a carpenter or farmer, is not
so respectable AS that OF shaving notes, ped
ding rotten wood or pills, or selling snuff
| and tobacco. And yet, the duty OF al! the
learned professions, as we'll as those Of n
/ mercantile character, are performed For the
1 same reason that the shoemaker wakes his
1 thread, or the farmer plants his pntatoes,
. namely, to obtain living. And yet u set
OF miserable upstaat fools almost universal
| " lnw bred people thsmseIves-people who
have begun if. III the ditch, endeavor to
establish artificial distinctions in society.
which they hope will elevate them above the
common mass from which they were taken.
, MI ha, b,n "a
Worth aud honesty could not commend
| them. p saGL-s-s III
Labor is labor. Honest labor is honest
labor. Honest and honorable labor is the
same, whether performed by the king or
the beggaT, and is Just as honorable in the
one as in the other. 1t is true that all men.
by habit and by taste, are not fitted to per.
sue the same vocations, and there are nat
ura! divisions, not distinctions. as the word
ia commonly used, created by harmony and
taste. This is as it should be, and fits us
for the discharge Of all the peculiar duties
that devolve uoon Us as members Of society.
But to sa that because man performs any
given duty. however humble, through ne
ccssity, he is degraded, or rendered less mer-
. itorious, than his neighbor who performs
. another duty not more faithfully, is to say
that we still adhere to the monarchical
principles Of the old world.
f Let the father educate the son in some
honorable calling and if he has predilcc-
ton to any particular business, us is tre.
quently the case. let him follow it if it be
, possible. 1t is the man that ennobles the
, business, not the business that ennobles thf
, mainland never spend Il thought upon the
, distinctions in occupations, honorable unt
1 honest. that fools have attempted to buL
up. Teach your children to be honorable
, upright and honest--to set proper vaius
, upon the riches ola world, which is only n
! best, but bubble blown into existence to
day, to be burst to- morrow; and to under.
stand that the only true and enduring richie
are OH intelligence duly cultivated, atfec
. tions schooled, and heart that knows NJ
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