The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1850-04-17
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/ see it, you would ask me what
/ have to say for myself for dropping
Yhe hammer anltaking up the quill,
as a member Of your profession. !
will be honest now, and tell you the
whole story. Twas transposod from
the anvil to the editors chair by the
genius of machinery. Don'tsmilc,
friends, it is even SO. | had stood
and booked for hours on those
Ihoughsless, iron intellects, those i
ron fingered, sober, supple automa-
tons as they cut up bale Of cotton,
and twirlcd it in a twinkling Of an
eye, into a whirlwind Of whizzing
shrcds, and laid it atmy feet in folds
Of snow white clothready for the use
Dt our most yoluptuous antipodos,-
They were wonderful things, those
looms and spindlos; bat thoy could
not spin thoughts; there was no at
tributos of Divinity in them, and /
admired them, nothing more. They
we're excessively curious, but could
estimate the whoIecompass of their
doing and destiny in finger power
80 | came away and left them spin
nlng-cotton.
One day was turning my anvil
beneath hot iron, and busy with
the thought, thar there was as much
intellectual philosophy in my ham
mer as in any Of the engincry ago
ing in modern times, when most
unearlhly screaming pierced my
cars; stepped to the door, and there
it was, the great Iron Horso Yes,
hehad come looking for ailthe world
like the great dragon we read Of in
Scripture; harnossed to half living
world and just landed on the earth,
where he stood braying in surprise
and Indignation at the base ul9' to
which he had been turned. | saw
the gigantic hoxaped moved with a
power that made the earth tremble
f)r miles. saw the army of human
beings gliding with the ve!oci-
" of tho wind over the iron track.
md droyes Of cattle travelling in
Their stables al the rate Of twenty
miles ain hour toward their city
slaughter house. TWAS wonderful.
The little busy bce-wingod machine
ry ofthc cotton factory dwindIed in
foinsignificance beforeit. Moastrous
bees of passage and burdonl it de-
voured the intervening distance, and
weddod the Giles together. But for
its furnace heart and iron sincws. it
was nothing bnta a beast, an enormous
aggregation oi--horsc power. And
] vert back to tha forge with unim-
paired reverence for the intellectual
philosophy ofmy hammer.
Passing along the street one af-
5ernoon | heard a noise in an old
building. as Of some one putting a
pair Of bellows, So without more
rdo, ! stepped in, and there, in a
corner Of d room saw tho chieEd'-
nuyre Of all The machinery that has
over been invented since ,he birth
pf 'Iubal Cam In its construction
il was as simple and unassuming as
pchoose press, II went with a lever
-witll.a lever, longer, stronger than
fiat witl which Archimcdcs promi
s5dt0 liit the world.
II Is a printing press, said boy
Standing by the ink, with Q careless
tirban Of brown paper on his head.
printing pross?' | queried mus
Eiyly 10 myself a printing press?
~liaE do you print? | asked. 'Printf
>aEd Tho boy, staring at me, doubt
ailly. why wo print tloughis.'
s'rlni tllouzlltsr ] slowly repeat
after llinl. alld ws stood looking
i9f i aaaseni " srEt other inmutii-