The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1847-06-24
" Rising" in the World.

merly Tailor, and the inference to be drawn
from the statement was,t that he had risen from
Tailor to a member Of congress 1t strikes
us that all such talk is excessively delete
rious to our republican society. The result
of it is to teach mechanics that they are IN
forior to those who get their living by their
wits, and that in order to rise IN the Worlei
they must abandon their business and seek
their bread in some of the fashionable pro-
fcssions. The truth of it is, however, that
although the learned professions are ne
cossary, yet the producer the mechanic,
the GREAT lnboring class must, of necc5si
ty stand first and foremost IN the order OF
worldly things. Now pray, show us worth
icr man than your Tailor or your Shoemak-
or or YOUR Blacksmith who labors honestly
through the day in his vocation, doing, like a
man. what he finds to do,what, in the matter
of making Clothes patching boots and shoeing
horses, it is necessary SHOULD be done? Can
business that he may follow as mere means
yoIr Medical profession, your Divinity pro-
fession, so far as hcy are used as the means OF
a Nrin1 to make bread and money out Of
what better are they, what higher are they,
than your profession of Coatmending, your
of Shoemaking ?"
The true arstocrats of the country are the
producers. 1t would be better perhaps, if
there were not so many who live upon other
peoples productions. But class of this kind
we must have, and so long as the producers
feed them it is as we'll to allow the matter to
pass without making much trouble about it.
There is a portion of our laboring population
who understand their position. They per-
form the requisite labor in their business, con-
tented, happy and envying nobody, looking
with green eyes upon no other mans business
and believing no other mans business better
than theirs. These men cannot rise from their
occupation to seat in congress. Their po-
sition is the highest, alreadyin society. These
men are the noblest among u.s.
There is another class who feel differently.
They perform their part with grumbling; full
of envy and jealousy continually longing for
some higher employment, and wishing they
stood on more elevated platform in society
Wrong as all this is, yet the blame is not al
ways to be charged upon them. 1t is charge
able, in the greatest measure, upon another,
ard the most pernicious, and contemplate
class in society," That class who are stuffed
with false notions of dignity, manliness and
worth, and who seek always to impress upon
their children that no man can be man who
gets living by any other than what they are
pleased to term the higher employments.-
They are Mortified at the idea of their son
falling in love with a shoemaker's girl, and to
allow tailor to " set up" with one Of their
daughters, would be a greater sin than con-
nivance at her death. If a son desire, from
taste, to become mechanic, their eyes pro-
trude with horror, and this vicious inclination
must be broken or the boy is ruined. He
mnst be educated, sent to College, made some
thing of! He is consequently put to that for
which he has no inclination and the boy who
might have made magnificent mechanic is
manufactured into a fool in the "higher 'calks
ofWe"
We 90 for the utter extinction, root and
branch of this most miserable class. They
are not fit to live. There is no such thing as
,isinq except in honor and worth. A man
may commence life filing saws. He files his
saws faithfully He is a temperate, honest
and worthy man, as much so as it is possible
for him to be. By-and-by he finds he has ca
pacity to file other things than saws; and far
Their on, by mending with files he learns to
make with files still farther he becomes a
machnist and by making, learns to improve
and invent, He takes out patents becomes
in his business, the most noted practical man
of his time, and his friends to show their re-
spect for him send him to the Legislature, to
Congress, and forthwith certain fools talk OF
his rising from saw filler to member ofcon-
gress Simply, his sphere Of usefulness IS &C.
landed, and by just as much as he is less proud
more humble, more honest and faithful, is he
exalted, has risen and no more. If people
knew more OF what they call rising, they
would give it another name. How many a
man who has risen to what the world calls the
highest stations, looks back from the top-nost
round, and sees, that, SO far as all the essen
tials of manic ID are concerned, every step up,
has been two steps down, and who would not
give all his high honors, if it were possible for
him to rise to his old station of happy and
honest saw-iilcr.
1t we're better for us all to understand this
matter of professions and stations: to know
and believe, that the man dignifes the station
and not the station the man that to him who
honestly and faithfully performs his part what
ever it may be- consideration, respect and hon
or are due, and to teach the rising generation
to trust to these last and not to mere station
for credit and esteem Vermont Patriot.
A GREAT SUCKER. John Kingsley, Ia
borer of our village, performed the greatest
feat of sucking" that has ever been done in
this town or any town joining. He halted in
front of G. G. Sheppard's Store, and after
gazing for some time at a large pile Of eggs
that stood in pail at the door enquired chow
much the clerk would charge for as many eggs
as he could suck" Being informed that %
cts. cash down would be satisfactory COM
pensation, chickens thrown in, he commenced
a terrible onslaught at the pile of poultry in
embryo. After sucking in the 21St egg he
sounded parley and offered to quit if the
clerk would give him so cents to balance ac-
counts. This being refused,he again commence
ed hostities with the exclamation that" John
Kingsley and Gen. Taylor never surrenders, "
and fell foul of the in-emy with fire in one
owe and total darkness in the other. lie