Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-04-09

overlooked by the composers of bulky volumes
are yet necessary in a nation where much wealth
produces much leisure and one part of the people
has nothing to do but observe the lives and fortunes
of the other"
DIGNIry OF VocATIoN. No impression prevail
ing in society," is more false or fatal to the man
hood of people, than that which gauges a mans
worth responsibility by the field of labor or pro-
tession he occupies long as that labor or profes-
sion is useful honest And we hold every use
full vocation to be honest; denying most emphati-
caily that dishonesty is ever useful. The nobility
of man in this country not depending, thank God
upon hereditary honor, title or wealth, should flow
not from the nature of his honest toll but from the
spirit he carries to that toll; the spirit by which
with or against the smiles Of temporal fortune, he
shapes his career among and his intercourse with
his fellow men. 1t has ever been our conviction
that he is more of true man, who turns chin
Iney-sweeping 10 an honest independent account,
than he who scorning the rough tolls of the hum
be and needy, is willing to live an idler-howcyer
proudly caparisoned upon the industry, sweat and
blood of his fellow-men.
Henry Clav-republican in all his instincts
paid the workingman just and noble compliment.
when he said to mechanic he shook his hard
hand, and pointed to the city palaces and spires.
4" behold on every side the monuments to your
glory" What matters it whether one Garry the
hod or the nlumbinc whether one mikes the NOR
tar handles the trowe, so long as each is essen
tial to the progressive triumphs of human attain
ments in all outward respects We would not have
descend to inferior conditions of toll volun-
tarily if he has the chance and capacity for the SUI
perior, but we would have every man feel that
when necessity commands, there is no useful labor
dishonorablc. The Lord Chancellor on his wool
sack does not more conserve, according to his ad-
vantages, the welfare of mankind, than the mason
who hews stone in the quarry or the shepherd
who tends his fiocks on the hillside.
Or THE WAY-GREAT TINES EXPECTED AT
STAFFORD HOUSE. 1t is understood that Mrs.
Harriet Beecher Stowe the authoress of Uncle
Toms Cabin, and the Rev. Charles Beecher, of New
jersey her brother, leave Boston in the steamship
Canada, for Liverpool, en- route to Stafford House.
Great preparations have been made to give them
the most cordial abolition reception ever accorded
to any Americans in England. The Duchess of
Sutherland and her associates in the late address
to the ladies of the United States, in behalf of the
abolition Of Southern slavery, and some thousands
| of women Of England who have signed that petit
ton, will be gathered at Stafford House to do hon
or to the authoress of Uncle Toms Cabin.
| They will have eating and drinking, and feasting,
in abundance, and speeches and songs and lamen-
tations over the suferings and expressions Of the
slaves of the South while thousands, nOt millions
of her Britannia Majestys subjects starving in
the three Kingdoms for want Of a morsel of bread.
And yet we should not be surprised if many of the
miserable victims of British taxations, monopoles
and exactions-the most unfortunate slaves Of
hopeless destitution-were to join in swelling the
triumph of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. We
should hardly be astonshed if the people of the
cotton mills of Manchester dependent for their daily
bread upon the slave grown cotton of our Southern
States, were to join the hue and cry against the
hands that feed them.
We wish Mrs. Stowe much joy of her journey.
1t is almost a pity that Mrs Swisshelm did not
accompany her, and Mrs. Abby Kelly Foster, for
the sake Of illustrating to the ladies of England
more fully not only the condition Of the abolition
societies in the United States, but the progress,
Also which our manish women in pantalets and
our old grannies in pantaloons, are making in the
cause of woman's rights. We shall wait with be-
coming patience the Stafford House jubilee: But
what will be the fate of Mrs. Ex-President Tyler
Is it not dreadful to think of!-dreadful dread
full! 1t is indeed. ". 7. Herald.
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