Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1852-06-17
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the head has been supposed to fulfill this
great law OF heaven, and to supersede the
necessity Of laboring with the hands
This Is a great mistake, Had God des-
Igned that part of mankind should con
line themselves exclusively to intellectual
pursuits. while all the rest were devoted
to mere toll and drudgerv, we may reas-
onably suppose that she would have fitted
each with an organization adapted to their
several vocations--that he would have
made the one without bodies, the other
without souls. But having given to ev-
cry son and daughter of Adam body sub
ject to various wants and hands to supply
their necessities, he has thereby said en-
phatically, " In the sweat of the face shalt
thou eat bread till thou return 70 the
ground Come. then. thou sentimental
intellectualist, fulfill to the letter and in
the spirit, the great law Of thy being
Put thy own hands TO the plough, AID
learn at last the sweet delight Of eating
the bread of Independence Exercise
thy body, and thereby iuvigorate thy un-
derstanding Thy tolls shall give health
and manly beauty to thy mortal frame,
aud-thus make it what God designed 1T,
meet tenement Cor the immortal spirit
Iw0uld not, indeed, have any man neg
iect to cultivate the powers of mind which
God has given him What I contend for,
Is a judicious division Of our time between
the exercise of our bodies and the cult
walton Of our minds, without neglecting
the yastconcerns Of either would have
men steer "a medium course between Char
ibdls and Cylia, the whirlpool and the
rock. Rouse up then, ye hard 6sted
sons of toll, and devote portion of your
mighty energies to the cultivation Of the
nJbler part Of your nature. To the hum
bic laborer, is often vouchsafed the dis
c9yery of truths in philosophy aud science
which had been hidden from the wisdom
Of ages The horizon of scientific disc0v-
cry widens with every new truth which is
bro't forth from the arcaua of wisdom
Great and wonderful are the discoveries
already made; bat we have reason to be
Heve that far greater remain behind
Who shall say that there are not still
hidden and yet 20 be revealed. truths in
natural and ethical science not only more
sublime than all that has before been dis
covered but truths which the imagination
Of the most visionary. IN their widest
flights, have never yet even dared to grasp
at To some honest laborer OF the pre-
sent generation, perhaps Of this division,
it may be given to lift the veil of that IN
ner temple where sdom sits enthroned.
This is a laudable object Of ambition, a
noble incentive to energetic exertion.-
Nav we each and all use oar best endeav-
ors to develop to the utmost the powers
and faculties Of the entire man, aud thus
contribute our share in enhancing the Dig
nifty and nobility Of manual labor.
Ia conclusion. brothers. let
me remind you, that as division, and as
individual sons of temperance, we have a
great H10ral labor to perform. We
should first Of all guard our own conduct
so that our example may correspond to
the holy principles we profess. We should
make cur disyIsion a shrine of purity,
where the victims of king alcohol may
fee for refuge and be safe We should
make our meetings such that the inebriate
once reformed and secured within our cir
Gle, shall have no desire to exchange our
rational, social pleasures, for the wild and
evaucsceut Joys of the bacchaualian revel
We should convince him that here Is
pledged in pure water friendship more
pure and brotherhood more disinterested,
than can possibly be cemented between
the boon companions Of reyelry. under
the excitement of the flowing bowl.