Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1851-01-30
THE DIGNITY OF l.SROP


good when i, is received with admiration slave
as we are happy to learn from the Hannibal Union was
the case with hi, address Mr. Renneu zeal and enter.
PRISE is "o,ty of all praise We wish Missouri and Iowa
too, had a thousand such cersymen. We give
tracts from the address.
As to the idea that labor is degrading.
Mr. BENNETT says:
When we can demonstrate from living
truth the benefit ofprac,ical industry, Civ
ing character and power toa whole peo-
pie, it is passing strange, that an American
should SD belle his race as to call labor de-
grading. But who is it that scorns Il life
of activity? l. i, the Lawyer, whose pro-
fession leads him. by all the rloquence q,
which le.is master to plead for the widow
and the fa,herle>s, or for the homes, trades
man, ,ha, bv the rascali,y of the idle and
worthless they may not lie robbed Of a
livelihood? Is i, the man after Gods own
hear: who breaches the truth of a natu-
raj and revealed reli zion, W no by precept
and example eniorces the dignity Of labor,
who would never wantonl crush fellow
mortal; but would cheer the degraded, who
would raise again the bruised reed, who
would kindle anew the gIimmering wick?
Is ii that man, htther once IL mer chant or
mechanic :-Nhe,her once day laborer
or a la,tl holder who ly the sweat Of his
brow, by his own effort through constant
rcver>eS and rebuff. becomes a capitalist !?
DO such men as these, men who know
" hat it is 10 work with the hand and with
the hcad-men ho have in their own ex-
rerience, i-, the dignity and benefit Of
industry, look with di>dain upon the
working man of any honest vocation ?
No, by no means! But it is those be-
ings in human shape, who can decorate
with fine linen and black satin a body made
eiieminale by vicious indnlsence;who can
converse feelingly with added women
concerning the soI'ness Of the air, the
greenes> of grass or the paleness of a
moonbean; " who can con> er, the materials
of luxuriant brain iuio portions OF
faifery, a> easily as the soap chandler con-
vets tie materials OF his grease Ne, into
soft soap (in both OF which the LIE is
nsed); who can sit from sunrise TO sunset
with loaiers in broatclo,h, gentlemen of
honor-ana they are gentlemen o! homer,
for they wear mhisker> and look tir,cc !;
they wear the musfoche and say "upon
my honor sir! DO you doubt my homer
sup" 1t is such characters, " hose only
use is, to form the connecting link be-
tween man and the babhoon, who <corn al!
OF car,h'> labnrers. For VIA, purpose
have such beings an existence 1t in-
deed seems frue, a. the poet expresses it,
that some exhiit
.sNo reason why they're horn,
But merely Ia consume the corn,
DevoMr the caf,!r. t,ri aid fsh.
Aud leave behind cmpi, dish.
As 10 the connection ui this Su'jec
with Railroads, Slavery and the growth
of Hannibal, MIR B. remarks:
Since Comprom,> C is The order Of the
the day fortunately for us } we will vote
for the tariff to favor the New York and
Boston Merchants, (evcn if we are Demo
Gratis, and | am one, tho voted the Wig
ticke, the other day) l say we will vote
for tariff in the East, il they will vote in
favor of,hc Railroad in the West this side
Of the Mississippi, 10 commence in Ham
l''al and TO terminate in ST Joseph or San
Franci>co. Besides this we would like
TO have Eastern men come and invest a
part Of their capital IN il, which will briue
them at least 10 per cent. We would
like to have the Yankee Engineer survey
ing our Railroads rather ;han those @!
Russia.
l hope no one in this enlightened audi
encc will be afraid to receive New Eng
land capitalists, and New England Me-
chanics' and New England contractors for
Railroads, tor fear that they might med
die with our Pecufia institution. II there
should happen to be such man, so con-
fracied and W'berur in his views, | would
ease his mind, 10y saying in the frs, place
"No tanaficai, r,ndiciire oboiiiionist, uf,he
Garrison school, would make his home in
a Slave State, e,-to use his own vulgar
language "he would dwell in hell first
and fear that the Sabbath breaker, the
Church hater, the Government Ge> pisrr,
and the God bla>phemer orthi> class, will
indeed dwell in the abodes of woe, where
he can adopt bis famil lar language o,
riiuperu'ion.
Secondly iy-Shoul Northern man come
among you no: such an one as have de-
scr'bed, but so far nti-siarery as not to
be satisfied in his own mind, that the
Scriptures, especially those Of the New
Testament prove the divine right of prop
er'y in man: | tell you, how YOU can keep
him from doing you the least harm. Just
give him as much as possible 10 do, as my
people have the. in building and repairing
your Church editices and your pnolic
houses, and in seeking the moral and intel
leclual Improvement, Of the community,
aud he will find no time TO do mischief
Tile Yankees are not SO terribly wicked
after all. think"we can lie, them live
with us in the Union, yes, and in the
same State too,if they will only keep away
their wooden nn,megs and other notions,
and agree TO playoff no tricks upon Us. BY
the way, it may not be known to all, the
Yankees are more honest than formerly,
instead of wooden clocks, they now make
iron Railroads. Every where in New
England, they stretch on, their long belts
OF iron. already they have bound the
Green Mountains Of Vermont, the White
Hills of New Hampshire, the vast pineries
Of Maine, and the extensive seaboard Of
Massachusetts, in one connection Chain Of
Railroads. In consequence Of this, towns
and ci1iaS alcpo tho li,a sprnpp I'M in =,