Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-04-13

morning, to be aroused before a. The world
was properly aired,'' and then TO breakfast at
an hour when digestion seemed TO be asleep,
and alter breakfast, what an everlasting Sun
day and If perchance you should shake
hands with any one, you would be presented
with a horny substance. a sort Of an apology
for a hand, a thing covered with nodules like
The back Of a crocodile. The old people, too,
they were severe, aye cruel-the idea Of a
beautiful girl being compelled to labor until
absolutely tired, fatigued, and withal not even
a piano in the house-dinner at twelve
o'clock what heaihenish customs, none of
the delights and excitements of the city,
every person, healthy, and void Of sympathy;
even the sy lphs in calico seemed TO do their
thiukings on mechanical principles, like the
Governor Of a steam engine. | pitied the
country and those who resided in 1t. Tit
world 10 me should have been the results Of
bricks and mortar entirely.
"All these were my impressions when
first entering the arena Of business, with fiat
tering prospects, with hope as plenty as bun
ting, and like it, flag like, Haunting from the
top Of my anlicipations. For some years !
was successful, and my antipathy 10 the
country continued when my country Tela-
tons came 10 town, they seemed to count
pence with so much care, that | mistook it
Tor meanness, and really felt that their hos.
pitality when among them must have been
forced, and not the free offering Of kindly
feeling.
After a few years, some reverses came
upon me, and from two 10 three o'clock were
anxious hours. | feared the closing of a
bank aim ost as much as a night in the coun-
try. | sighed for some business free Of ex-
cessive cares, where profits should be large
in proportion, and amounts 10 be handled
smaller +; where the risks should be lesseneJ,
and thus render the results more secure. |
sometimes even thought that the farmer must
be,happy if he could only come in town in the
evening, but still the thought of the frogs,
crickeis, &C., haunted my memory. Oh,
tickle fortune, how blind you are, and what
marvellous changes you can make with us !
At last | lost all, and the supposed warmth
of city friendship seemed TO pass away like
the pyrotectic gloTies. and al almost too late
a date, ! learned thai the apparent GOODNESS
Of farmers, was nearer the average of the
amount Of friendship that the human heart
was really susceptible of. while the profess
sed warmth OF city friends was a sort of con-
ventional acting, perpetrated on occasion,
which when the occasion ceased, and the
truth became convenient. sank far below the
honest aud not over painted warmth of the
countryman. The evident necessity of re-
ducing my expenses carried me TO the coun-
try, and even 10 live there it became neces-
sary TO work a farm, to rise before the
world was aired )" to breakfast ere Sol was
up but digestion was not asleep ihen-eyen
to dine at noon my evenings were spent at
home; | read Dickens "Cricket on the
HEARTH ~ and for the first time in my life,
learned to know the real happiness Of enjoy
ing the society of my family. Even the
crickets became favorites. | drained the
ponds and low grounds. and thus got rid of
the frogs. The internal bill book of the old
en- time was a thing remembered as Of a
dream The town excitements too, have lost
their charm. In plain truth, | have learned
to see things as they are, without the addi-
ton Of pain. The morning air, the rising
sun, tho growing plant, are all pleasures
now, and the city, (ah, how could | ever
have been so spell bouHd!) seems but as a
magnificent countriYspce 10 cream together
consumers and customers for our products.
who are not only compelled to pay us for
them, but TO drawl outia miserable, anxious
existence, breathing foul air, while acting as
factors; sacrificing half their lives, and three
quarters of their happiness, for the privilege
of swindling themselves into the belief that
they are getting their share of this worlds
comforts by legitimate means.
Poor benighted Go,hamites, vonr early
companion feels for you, see even your mil
lionaires trudging every morning to do the
work Of others as presidents or directors Of
banks, for a salary, which bears. in many
cases but a sorry comparison with their w
individual incomes ; and why do they this ?
First, from pride, because they mistake the
hearing Of woful stories and ingenious lies
from sycophants who want discounts for ad.
miration Of their talents and last, because
the handling Of, and talking about money, has
become a habit; and such a man is the pat
tern you show your youth. and ask them to
imitatel Fatal delusion! Why don't you
tell your young men that less than one 10 ten
Of such succeeds even in money making.
much less in securing happiness; and tina, if
the profits of the farmer should be but one
zenith that of The merchant, still his vocation,
under the doctrine of chances, should be pre-.
fe:red /; because while industry always Sc
cures him competence, he is free from the
chance of utter prostration that when he
has made a competency that he will have
health 10 enjoy it; and in the making of it,
he need not be annoyed as in mercantile pur-
suits. Tell them too, that the day is past
when farmers were considered necessarily
uneducated men-science and learning car
ry with them the elements for their own en-
graftment upon industry, and we now find
our young gentlemen of fortune and educa-
ton laboring in colleges TO fit themselves for
the farm. To what pursuit can the nun of
science apply his requirements with better
results to himself and others, than to agricul-
ture. The chemist, the natural philosopher.
the man of imaginative genius may each find
vent in agriculture for all his wants. Let
the wealthy citizens so advise their sons.
and they may then hope to see their fortunes
and their names pass 10 a fifth generation
unimpaired /; but not by giving them a mer.
camille education, for they well know that
if they sustain themselves, and have their
children penniless with such an education il
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