The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-07-30
For the Register
Is it Duty to sustain Home Institutions

For the Register.
Is it Duty to sustain Home Institutions
The inhabitants of town, while they owe
leading duties 10 the interests Of The nation,
are under special duties to sustain the insti>
tutions OF the town, in which they reside.
Every town in this commonwealth is Tin IL
sensc) ii community by itself. They have
united together, for certain judicial and pro-
tectiyc purposes. They build their own
roads, bridges, churches, and school houses,
ard invite TO their midst clergymen, teach>
ers physicians, black Smiths wheelwrights,
shoe makers, tailors, coopers, haticrs, sad
dlers, and manufacturers, and promise them
patronage, and in return, all these artisans
and professional men buy of the farmers
their wheat, their pork, their potatoes, their
butter, their cheese. their hay their wool.
their fircwood, in short nearly all they cat
or drink or wear. Some are rich some are
poor some are learned, and some are un>
learned, some are vlrluous and some are vi
cious, but all have a common origin and a
common destiny. 1t is not TO be supposed
that any difference in their external crcum-
stances alters the intrinsic dignity or moral
worth Of a single individual. All the cxter-
nal trappinGs, which seemingly foist one
class above another. are merely adyenti,ious.
and constitute no essential distinction he,
tween man and man; for II few patry guineas
would suffice to deck the son of ncasont
| with all the ornaments Of a peer. The whist
ling plough-boy, or the merry lads who plies
the bellows for his father 70 forge the gifts
tcring Steel is of quite as much importance
in the eye Of him
Who sees. as God of all.
A hero perish or a sparrow fall"
as the Emperor of China, who sways his
sceptrc over half the inhabitants of the globe.
All men arc Of "thc dust Of the ground"
all sprung from the same primogeri.or. This
is equally ruc of the proud yeoman who cul-
tivaics his thousand acres and supports
carriage, and Of the cobbler who tolls eaily
and late, and secures only a scanty living.
Equally is it true Of the industrious and
prosperous artisan, who by care and econo,
my has grown rich, and the Young farmer
who has just made Il rude beginning, and is
struggling under pressure Of debts. f.
qualy true is ii Of the disciple Of iIippoc
rates, who, by unwcaried care by night and
day III the abodes Of the sick and by the
couch OF the dying, has gained compe
tence and the shop keeper or merchant,
VINO tolls and labors TO please, and yet is
cursed vino processes TO be free and is yet
Save who lives all his lie suspended between
nope ana fear and at last dies bankrupt*
Inns fact W., the natural equality OF men,
IN every town, forms the grand consideration
why they ought TO manifest a friendly alice
lon Tor each other Inc farmer cannot do
without the artisan, nor the artisan without
me farmer the merchant cannot do without
ei'hei' nor they as well without the mer>
cnah', All are linked together 10y lnnumer-
aole ues, and the recognition oil these ties,
ana the prachce OF the rcclproca' duties
winch ARISE out OF them, form the source OF
individual happiness and the bonds OF social
enjoyment
Inc great law OF love binds these diiier-
cnt classes to and and assist each other, and
nc Is guilty OF ITS violation, who bestowi not
tins patronage upon the men who aid in pay
ing the taxes building churches, school |
houses and bridges, and who contribute to |
swell the true taxable wealth of the town. |
Suppose the various mechanics and trades,
men in a town, such as backsmths, coopers. |
taors, whcclwriahts, shoemakers, milers. \
and merchants, should insist that the farmers
must pay them cash invariably, for their
work and wares, and that thev would not
purchase OF them any thing that their tnm- |
lies needed to consume, but would pay their
money 10 the farmers Of The adjoining towns
for their hay, their wood. their pork. their
butter and cheese, their apples, their poul>
try, &C. Who does not see that such mol.
icy would be suicidal and wrong? Does il
not place a temptation before those farmers
of whom they purchase. to sell their prodn,e
at prices that would prove injurious 10 tL,ir
neighbors? Suppose on the other hand That
all the farmers in given town should insist
that the various artisans and merchants a
mons them must pa, them cash for any pro.
duce they might need of them. for the sun
port of their families and would NOT bestow
a vestige of patronage upon them, but would
run to adjacent towns, and nav out their
money and bestow their patronage on men
of other towns, contributing to enhance cap
i,al in other places, while they let their own
suffer and go down. Can such policy be |
wise Can men guilty OF such conduct be
republicans DO they love their neighbor |
as themselves Are they governed by tho |
so'uell ru'e-the great law OF love? 1t is |
true there are men in ali communities, who |
10 save a sXpence, would spend a shilling's |
worth oil shoe leather, or to obtain an article
AZ cost, worth hiiy cents, would spend half
Gay Time Such mercenary spirits are
u'ssface 10 decent society, and form no cri-