Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1854-09-21

OF the groat questions which agate the Human Nj nd at
this hour--Free labor in all Its phases, Free Soil, Free
Men; The Relation OF Government to the people, Fran.
chise SC. We continue our article upon Labor, which
will be found partly defnitve partly historical and part
y argumentative.
Labor Is the exertion OF eOrt-the exercise Of men.
tai physical fnnctonin the creation Of value Il Is
always applied to material furnish cd by natureto the
soil Of esrthto the production Of the soil-tO tue in-
dvidual element, to combined results. There is
nothing intellectual or material which man estimates,
but what is incidental to earth and made utie by labor
Our food, our clothing, shelter, recreation,
our ideas, our hnguagoa find their origin in nature
beyond man, without his inaueIce--but their value
their perfection from the application Of the geniusof
the labor Of man. Labor Is mullorm in its application
but identical in It's objectGuded by science oper.
ates with precision toward asceraned result I'm.
PEELED by unntegent motive, It proceeds with less
certainty, less product and less precision. Implements
OF labor in the early ages were uncouth cunbr0us and
awkward but efficient. rs progress Advancement,
which Is the child Of labor strobe onward to The goal
(which Is not vet reached the volume nature became
better compgehended by its Students from its laws
we're drawn more systematic aud more practical plans
Of operation. Implements became more simple and
effective and the world moved onward with quick
er step. Yet the unaecountabe and degeneratng
ty SO common with the human Species presented it
does still present barriers to the work Of advancement
THE EETHRALMEST OF LABOR.
"Man was created free and equal" In other words,
he was made neutrality-suspicious., on Cod
Independent save on God-and his depend eney upon
tie A Father but requirement Of love to him whose
providence permits wAnt-no nequalty-no wrong
no misery-whch when aud where they do exist exist
in eontrariety to bis government fwith his suerAnce
The coxcomb Theoogists Of the latter day, like th
coxcomb chevaiers of former day, who found amuse
ment in the ban dying ofbunt harmless fosare fond
ocontroversal games in which they brandish the sword
ecclsiastic with fierce unchristisn ZEAL often hacking
into the sconces of their opponents dull heads or
making sad havoc Of the tenes Of eome time honored
belief A 'just and righteous ground" for pOus con.
tenon has been deemed the scripural account OF the
creation Of man-hs Fall-and his Moral Agency. Itis
intention to lug forward by the ear these dapper
dspuaL IT, their individual creed, their learned dis.
qustcns, but il is intention to express our utter
contempt Of their whole fabric Of presy argument and
substitution for scripture and declare for
the Book ITSELF OF the truth Of which they bit
witnesses. Let us then imagine literal Eden,
garden in which God Graded infant Bumani.y lie
US recall the loveiest spot upon which sc ever
rCsted-loVey In its simplicity and inn which is
beauty and nature Blue heavens, golden sunbeams
deep green woods, happy voes sloping meads mellow
| lspng rivuets--virgin soil.
Let Us still imagine tho garden ten times more beautiful
more sublime, moro glOrious-more productive. Here
erst earth proanedere the serpent hiss Of human
hate had stirred zephyrwhen there all fraternity
all harmony--all peace-came man, pure and up.
right-one--equatO inherit the bounty Of bis Crea.
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