Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1847-06-10
"RiSine" in the World.

contains truth that il would be well for all
to remember, and remember too, he is
the truly great man who fills well the
sphere in which he is placed. There is
many agood saying, sanctioned by time,
to impress this truth upon the mind
Pope perpetrated one like this:
"lIonor and shame from no condition rise,
Act well thy part there all the honor hes"
And Scotia's bard did not err much when
he said:
"rhe rank is but the guineNs stamp,
A man ) man for a that" .,.
You will of course read the following,
for it is one Of Eastman's best.
"We saw it stated the other day, that mem
Der of Congress, from Tennessee, was formerly a
Tailor and the inference TO be drawn from the
statement was, that he had risen from Tailor to
a,member of congress- 1t strikes US that all such
talk is excessively deleteriOus TO our republican
society. The result Of it is to teach mechanics
that they are inferior to those who get their living
by their wits, and that IN order TO rise in the
world they must abandon their business and seek
their bread in some of the fashionable professions.
The truth Of il is, however, that, although The
learned professions are necessary, yet the profuc-
or the mechanic, the great tutoring class must,
uc necessity stand first and foremost in the order
of worldly things. Now pray, show US wor'hier
man than your Tailor, ryOur Shoemaker or your
Blacksmith who lahors honestly through the day
in his vocation, doing, like man, what he finds
| 4, do plnI in hn ms N
patching boots and shoeing horses ii is necessary
should be done; Can this man rise from his bust
ness to any other business that he may follow rs
f mere means off, getting living; Your law profess,
ion, your Medical profession, your Divinity pro-
lession, so far as they are used as The means of Il
: huing,to make bread & money out of,what better
are they, what higher are they than your profess
ion of Coatmending, your professions Of Horse
, shoeing, or your profession Of Shoemaking?-
f Talk about thrifty, honorable mechanic rising
to haf.starved pettlIogger, whom society calls a
lawyer, or 10 spiritual blind guide Of divine, or
5 10 maker Of rotten wood pills called physician
bah! rising!
We are no preacher Of aggraranism. The
learned professions are all right, proper, useful
and necessary; but what good is to be, nay, what
evil is not, accomplished BY inducing the shoe
maker, the blacksmith, the printer and such like,
to understand that their business is iower than
that of the learned professions? Is 1t not better
for them TO know that their professions ARE also,
necessary and that it is the maniineSS cM Which
then tabor in the calIiAg, and not The cutting
that shall bring to them ''consclenceS void OF Of
fence towards God and man, - and entllle them to
the consideration Of worthy and honorable men,
bers of society,"
You Law teacher and you teacher of Religion
and you Physician, you are all necessary. The
r mechanic has no time 10 devote 10 anything more
than the general principles Of your professions
he must trusl you in the matters you profess, and
he does trust you, but none of your airs, gen
tIemenl for the old shoemaker aud the
, ncket builder are just as necessary as you are!
They need you and you need them let it be SC
understood then and so agreed. You know 4
great deal that they do not know; but they are W
: to YOU, for they know great deal that you dc
not know, and without their knowledge of shoe.
making, house-buiIdmg, 0-making, and sucf
like, you would be poorly of.
1t ought to be said, however, TO n portion o.
| the labOIng people who are continually crying ou
against those whom small dcmagogucs, represent
TO them to be arSlOCrais, that yoa often, do very
great wrong when you hear such cries. You do,
also, still, greater wrong when you fancy that every
professional man feels above you. 1t is, in nine
cases { ut Of ten, mere fancy; for we tell you, and
you inuS' neat u.s. II, ''',s ""''e' 'o' "' "o uo
| 'enuihs !ou' NOW II Is ii" me- '"r' w,
meet no" anu "nu 'ien' '',''s VI S"''I'i ""u -"
ian VINO gives n''','e.' aus ""u ''"S W "'' "ISo
yG" IT, I, n' w., ,o, n,nJ md cse, cny;ons H.
= ,,"rJ, nnnr cnck trr,;oy hec,nsc no snrcods hi
0 ,,,;,,, nd s,rr,s ,hnn, van and GIIs vour enr
with his gobbc! gobble! gobbIe! We tell yol
that no trne man ever feels above any other man
lou 'ancy sone,1' "S "u S" n;Ia IT, '"G hVo'
no"' " Wv. "'i Il ,aI, ~ h., n"o,.~,
io ~ nus poso'; ,"u S caoIs ahoro ,on ,rh;
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'''e".'' - aTS.,hi, 81 oJncn,;on ,hinGs I,
,,'L;oh ho lbs boUn accns,omcd from childhood ant
+ " ,"l;oh ho links "a line ps YOU do of you
e onron md nlain Dover unbIeached.
f rLa ,.,o ,r;,,ocr,,s If ,he copntrv oro tb,
D ,r wv t. ,o,,II ho ho,,or norh,ns # thor,
T P 'O'".., ., ~ ,,Lo r,,o ,,nnr n,her nsonIe'
5 aI, Nv" nm; n cl,ss If ,hs kind we INNS
: nnro e,J So onr ne The nrcdncers feed them il i
aII ~ ',l,o n,,,io, "a me-, v,hon, n,L
aS "o' w , " ahom, II rLoro s nor,on .
~ ' i'Sa.;,, ,onmI,,;nn ,.hn rnJors,nnJ ,ho;
Oos;,;oo Thrv nsr[nrm The reouisi,e nbo
,L"i" hus;nas! crn,en,od h,nnv md envyin
p m,hnJy lool,;n, will green ewes upon No oihe
mans business and beIeyinp no other other man
I bnsiness better than theirs These men canno
. rise from their occupation to a seat in Congress.
Thc, nosi,ion is the highest. already, in society
: These men are the noblest among rs.
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