Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1852-10-27
g RISING" IN THE WORLD.

"RISING" in THE WORLD.
Occasionally, in the course Of our editorial
labors, we come across an article worth years
subscription to a newspaper The following,
from the Vermont Patriot, is one of them:
The rank is but the guineas stamp,
A man S man for a that"
We saw il stated the other day, that a men,
ber Of Congress, from Tennessee, was formerly
tailor, and the Inference drawn from the state
ment was that he had risen from Tailor to a
member of Congress- 1t strikes us that all
such talk is excessively deleterious to our re-
publican society. The result of il is, to teach
mechanics that they are inferior to those who
get their living by their wits, and that in order
to rise in the world they must abandon their bu-
siness and seek their bread in some of the fash
ionable professions. The truth of it is, howev-
er, that, although the learned professions are
necessary, yet the producer, the mechanic, the
great laJoring class, must of necessity stand
first and foremost in the order of worldly things.
Now, pray show us worhier man than your
Tailor or your Shoemaker or your Blacksmith,
who abors honestly through the day in his vo-
cation, doing like a man, what he finds to do
what, in the matter of making clothes, patching
boots and shoeing horses, IL is necessary should
be done. Can this man rise from his business
to any other that he may follow as mere means
Of getting living? Your Law profession, your
Medical profession, your Divinity profession, so
far as they are used as The means of a liuing, to
make bread and money out of, what better are
they than your profession, of Coat-mender, your
profession of Horse-shoeng, or your profession
of Shoe making? Talk about thrifty ,hopora-
ble mechanic rising to ahalf-starved pettifogger,
whom society calls lawyer, or spiritual blind
guide of Il divine, or to maker Of rotten wood
pills called hysican-bah! rising!
We are no preacher Of agraranism. The
learned professions are all right, proper, useful
and necessary; but what good is to be, nay,
what evil is not, accomplished by inducing the
shoemaker, the blacksmith, the printer, and such
like, TO understand that their business is louer
than that of the learned profession! Is it not
better for them to know that professions are al
so necessary, and that it is the manlinesS Vith
ohich they labor IN the calling, and not the call
ing, that shall bring to them conscience void of
offence towards God and man." and entile them
to the consideration of worthy and honorable
members Of society?
Your Law teacher, and your teacher of Re-
gion, and your Physician, are all necessary
The mechanic has no time to devote to anything
more than the general principles of your profess
sions; he must trust you in the matters you
profess, and he does trust you; but none of
your airs, gentlemen! for the old shoemaker
and the jacket builder are just as necessary as
you are. They need you, and you need them ;
let it be so understood then, and so agreed
You know great deal that they do not know /;
but they are up TO you, for they know great
deal that you do not knew, and without their
knowledge of shoemaking, ouse-building nail
making, and such like, you would be poorly off.
1t ought to be said, however, to portion of
the laboring people who are continually crying
out against those whom small demagogues rep
resent to them TO be aristocrats, that you often
do very great wrong when you hear such cries
You do, often, still greater wrong when you fam
cy that every professional man feels above you.
1t is, nine cases out of ten, mere fancy; for we
tell you, and you must hear us, in this matter,
for we are defending you; now it is all mere fam
cy. You will meet now and then, thing of
starch and rattan, who gives himself airs and
turns up his nose atyou; but who made you a
fool that You should mind him! Do you get
mad and feel envious towards your cock turkey,
because he spreads his wings and struts about
you and fills your ears with his gobbe! gobble!
gobble! We tell you that no true man ever
feels above any other man. You fancy some.
time, as you stand in the door of your workshop
and see man ride by with ruffie in his bosom