The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-10-04
rHE DAILY DISPATCH.


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saas Gay OF tne Asticua.ula. ..us
1nere rs ABOUT tn's mccnA.'o 1l''l.r'e
evefy evidence VI ssAonA'y sA1 s~soe = 4ne
men engaged IN IL are Prac'.csI snu sns1 vic
men. 1ney are Hen wnc' n su a1 oWn iaDo-
rious vocations, anu n 'ne'r own SIMPLE ana
earnest natures are accunomed 70 DO what
ever tneir nanos nnd 10 90, with all Their
might. iney are men OF Intelligence, and
OF moral as well a. physical pith and energy.
They are men Who feel, in their own expe'
nence, the wants OF mechanics. and who, IN
supplying their wapfs, are not IN the habit OF
looking back. or of doubling. or Of hesita-
most efficient means to their purposes. We
predict their entire and brilliant triumph in
this great enterprise-the Mechanics Instr
tute. They are united, active, determined;
nay. enthusiastic glorious future is be-
fore them.
u.
mechanical occupation are ever to be re-
moved, they must be removed by mocha
MICS themselves, They must lay the fOunda-
ton Of their own own elevation, and rise by
their own intellectual improvement I; and
above all, by their own self-respect So long
as there lie traitor in their own hearts to
their own manhood. one who holds counsel
with the foe without, and whispers suspicious
of their own inferiority, they will be inferior,
and others will look upon them as such, and
what is more will know that they thus consi-
der themselves. Let mechanics regard with
indifference the silly prejudices against their
class which have been adopted by shallow
Drained upstairs from the pages of English
romance. Nothing can be more inconsistent
than such preiudices, in a nation of plebeians;
nothing more unreasonable in themselves
They would have neither strength nor influ.
ence, If mechanics would be but true to their
own character, and cultivate and store their
minds and thus prepare themselves to take
that position among their fellows, to which
they are eminentiy entitled by the incalcula-
BILE value and advantages of their vocations
to society and to civilization.
The journeymen of Richmond ought to raj
" as one man around this Mechanics Insti-
tute. We earnestly invoke them to dismiss
the thought from their minds that this is an es-
tablishment set on foot for the exclusive be-
neft of the employers. On the contrary, the
leading idea of those who projected it, the
universal object of those who are pushing it
forward with such hearty and irresistible en-
thusiasm. is the rood of the iouruevmen.-
Thew are the individuals who If tbev choose.
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