Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1852-10-27
GRAND HAVEN MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27. 1852


and gold watch in his pocket, that he is an ar
istocrat and feels above you This follows as
a matter of course by no T7rner of means.--
The ruffie, the gold watch, &c, may be mere
matters of habit, or education, things to which
he has been accustomed from childhood, and
which he thinks as little of as you do of your
apron and plain Dover unbleached.
The true aristocrats Of the country are the
producers. 1t would be better, perhaps, if there
were not so many who live on other peoples
productions. But q class Of this kind we must
have and so long as the producers feed them
it is as well TO allow the matter TO pass without
making much trouble about it. There is por-
tion of our aboring population who understand
their position. They perform the requisite of
labor in their business contented, happy, and en-
vying nobody; looking with green eyes upon
no other mans business, and believing no other
mans business better than theirs. These men
cannot rise from their occupations to a seat in
Congress. Their position is the highest, al
ready, in society These men are the noblest
among men.
There is another class who feel differently.
They perform their part with grumbling; full
of envy and jealousy; continually longing for
some higher employment, and wishing they
stood on more elevated platform in society,"
Wrong as all this is, yet the blame is not always
to be charged upon them. 1t is chargeabe, in
the greatest measure, upon another, and the
most pernicious, and contemplate class in soc-
ETY.. That class who are stuffed with false no.
tions of dignity, manliness and worth, and who
seek always to impress upon their children that
no man can be Il man who gets living by any
other than what they are pleased to term the
higher employments. They are horrifed at the
idea of their son falling in love with shoemakers'
girls, and to allow tailor TO "set up" with one
of their daughters, would be a greater sin than
connvance ut her death. If son desires from
taste to become mechanic, their eyes protrude
with horror, and this vicious inclination must be
broken or the boy is ruined. He must be edu-
Gated, sent to college, made something of! He
is consequently put to that for which he has no
inclination, and the boy who might have made a
magnificent mechanic, is manufactured into a
fool in the higher walks Of life"
We 60 for the utter extinction, root and
branch of this most miserable class. They are
not fit to live. There is no such thing as rising
except in honor and worth man may COM
mence life filing saws. He files his saws faith
fully. He is temperate, honest and worthy
man, as much so as it is possible for him TO be.
By-and by he finds he has a capacity to file other
things than saws; and farther on, by mending
with files, he learns to make with files; still far
ther he becomes machinist and making, learns
to improve and invent. He takes out patents
becomes in his business the most noted, prac-
tical man of his time, and his friends, to show
their respect for him, send him to the Legisla-
ture, to Congress, and forthwith certain fools
talk of his rising from saw-fler to n member
of Congress Simply, his sphere of usefulness
was extended, and by just as much as he is less
proud, more humble, more honest and faithful,
he is exalted, he has risen and no more. Ifpeo-
pie knew more of what they call rising they
would give it another name How many man
who has risen to what the world calls the high
est stations, looks back from the topmost round
and sees, that, so far as all the essentials of
manhood are concerned, every step up has been
two steps down, and who would give all his
high honors, if it were possible for him to rise
to his old station of happy and honest saw
filer
1t were better for us all to understand this
matter of profession and station; to know and
believe, that the man dignifes the station, and
not the station the man that to him who hon.
estly and faithfully performs his part, whatever
it may be, consideration, respect and honor are
due, and TO teach the rising generation to trust
to these last, and not to mere station, for credit
and esteem.
A BEAUTIFUL PRAYER.-Lord. bless and pre-
serve that dear person whom thou hast chosen
to be my husband; let his life be long and bless
ed, comfortable and holy; and let me also be-
come great blessing and comfort unto him, q
sharer in all his joys, refreshment in all his
sorrows, meet helper for him in all the acci-
dents and chances of the world. Make me ami
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