Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1847-07-01
RISING IN THE WORLD.

The Vermont Patriot, under the head of
"Rising in the World,'' has the subjoined
remarks, which contain some striking truths,
which we commend to the attentive perusal
of our readers:
We saw it stated the other day, that
member Of Congress, from Tennessee, was
formealy Tailor, and the inference to be
drawn from the statement was, that he had
risen from Tailor to a member of Con-
gress. 1t strikes us that all such talk is
excessively deleterous to our republican So
ciety. The result of it is to teach mechan-
les 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 tits,
however, that although the learned profess
sions are necessary, yet the producer, the
mechanic thegreat laboring class, must of
necessity stand first and and foremost in the
order of worldly things. Now pray, show US
worthierman than your tailor, or your shoe
make ror your blacksmith, who labors hon
eslly through the day in his vocation, doing
like man. what he finds to do, what, in the
matter of making clothes, patching boots or
shoeing horses, 1t is necessary should be
done. Can this man rise from his business
to any other that he may follow as mere
means of getting living? Your law pro-
tession, your medical profession, your divini-
~ profession, so far as they are used as the
means Of a liuimg, to make bread and mo-
ney out Of, what better are they, what high
err are they than your profession of coat
mendng, your profession of Understanding,
or your profession of shoe-making Talk
about thrifty, honorable mechanic rising
to half-starved pettifoger, whom society
calls a lawyer, or to spiritual blind guide
of divine, or to maker of rotten wood
pills called physician !! rising!
We are no preacher ofaggrarianism. The
learned professions are all right. proper
and usaful and necessary but what good
is to be, nay, what evil is not, accomplished
by inducing the shoemaker, the blacksmith,
the printer and such like, to understand that
their business is loacer than that of the
learned professions? Is it not better for
them to know that their professions are al
so necessary, and that it is the manliness
avih which Mey labor in the calling, and no,
the calling, that shall bring them 'conscien
ces void of offence towards God and man,
and entitle them to the consideration of
worthy and honorable members of society?
You law teacher, and you teacher of re-
ligion, and you physician, you are all ne
cessary. The mechanic has no time to de-
vote to anything more than the general
principles of your professions he must
trust you in the matters you profess, and he
does trust you; but none of your airs, gen.
,leman for the old shoemaker and jacket
builder are just as necessary as you are
They need you and you need them let it
be SO understood :hen, and so agreed. You
know a great deal that they do not know
but they are up to you, for they know
grea, deal that you do not know, and with
out their knowledge ofshoemaking, house
building, nail-making, and such like, you
would be poorly off.
thought to be said however, to portion
OIL laboring people who are continually
crying out against those whom small dema-
gogues represent to them to be aristocrats,
that you 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, nine
cases out of ten, mere fancy; for we tell
you, and you must hear us, in this matter,
for we are defending you, now, it is all mere
fpncy. You will meet now and then, a
thing of starch and rattan, who gives him
self airs and turns up his nose at you; but
who made you fool that you should mind
him. Do you get mad and feel envious
toward y our cock turkey because he spreads
his wings and struts about you and fills
your ears with his gobble gobble gobble!
We tell you that no true man ever feels a.
bove any other man. You fancy sometimes
as you stand in the door Of your workshop,
and see man ride by with ruff1e in his
bosom and gold watch in his pocket, that
he is an arislocrat and feels above you ~
This follows as matter of course by no
manner or means. The ruffie, the gold
watch, &c., may be mere matters of habit,
of education, things to which he has been
accustomed from childhood, and which he
thinks as little of as you do'of your apron
and plain Dover unbleached.
The true aristocrats 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 we'll to allow the
matter to pass without making much trou-
BILE about it. There is a portion of our
population who understand their position.
They perform their requisite labor, in their
business are contented happy and envying
nobody, looking with green eyes upon no
other mans business better than THEIRS
These men cannot rise from their occupa-
ton to a-seat in Congress. Their position
is the highest already in society. These men
ara The nnhlest amcnn men