Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1854-11-05

not be cultivated without the erection of village and,
the village had maritime location, it would grow into
city, whose concentration of power and accumulation o.
wealth swallowed up the authority Of the baron and
used for the purpose of general
prosperity safety, and peace. All honor then, the
canic his power has at length taken the place of ihe
Oyershadowng aocracy of the feuda baron whose rule
gone Silently, but steadily element de-
veoped by which the people learned their rights and
might power demand share in the government
voice making Of the laws the leyyng of taxes and
the administration of justice, When ruler to be ap
pointed him. demanded voice as to whom he should
be- hence the elective franchise. When his pro-
pey levied upon his life exposed, he demanded
making the law and hence arose Legislative
emolies composed of representatives of the people,
When against the honor Of the State the
happiness mis- fellow he demanded decision by his peers
and hence the trial by jury And when summoned to
tie great work of war; for the aggrandzement of family or
qualification the vindcvenes prince, he rebel
led and hence most modern revolutions leading to
free government All OF modern representative and
free governments therefore, the legitimate children of
the mechanic arts and their interests the first TO suffer by
the mistakes Of and their welfare is the only
Iect thermometer of public prosperity.
But Commerce, King Commeree-the only legitimate mon
upon athrone the only throne under which the
fires of destruction already hghted the of the
mechanic His agent, the merchant, the mediator be-
the producer and the er of the soil and
and it is the mechanic who reduces the
product the which meet human wants.
He upon small per the products of human
labor. small per did ] say? Yes but upon that
small per the colossal fortunes the world has
SEEM have been collected and dispensed fortunes by
which restricting hand is this night laid the wrath of
nations and the ambition kings, and the gaes Of
often shut and opened.
Thus the mechanic arts arts labor
the seeptre from landed cspia mercantile wealth, have
Trevented frequency of wars and have employed the
simple productions of earth in Identifying and rendering
their highly seryreable in the development of
rights and interests of the Why the very Of
embarrassment in the trade
trade throws muudes out of empOyment and the cry of
want and cry distress the halls legislation,
ond and mpOrtunae, that the military furor dies
quenehed by the apprehension of mghier calames. Me-
have developed the balance OF power between
labor capital and land, and each exercises sautaTy in
fuence upon other The andholder must have his
and Injuries In order to do this, there must be
The capitalist do nothing without trade and there
be trade in without the industry of the
arts, languish agriculture,
also, neglected. and the people take steps backwards to-
ward barburism This thought, To my mind presents beau
tiful picture shadows forth civilization which every
department tody polite dependent upon its fellow
department, and each becomes part of supendous
wholeecurng the prosperity of that whole by the eecua
working Of every part There then opposition of inter
properly regulated society," and let away with
idea Tire wealth of the capitalist does oppress the
banks offices of insurance, all the media opens
with speedy and sale conveyances aud exchanges
He sale for the products of his labor, and the
capital invested in their purchase the immediate and
certain h Let spirit hostility cease, then
fateBa regard be promoted; the dignity OF tn laberer
respected his achievements our lovely
beloved South VIII take her rank among the Industrial
and powerful has among the patriotic States of great
contederacy.
Our subject itself mainly with material
we'll being But let present Imagination pic
those old feuda times of and things
they tben existed and As they speak TO giving
4 strictly living the social system which
prevailed Fnsl, tbe outline OF this picture the gloomy
towers, deep moat, heavy bridge
ponderous gates At entrance Herculean warder
onthe baement, and seei-cad seniines, and within tine
courtyard rough and roting As you enter,
there the oaken hall, whefe after the chase sht, the
high, and the widest passions rage tumuu-
ously Ascend he tall and skypiercing turre and every
where beneath your stretch away in the haz distance,
dark untrodden forests, poorly cultivated hills and val
ey hiny scattered between whilst under the shadow
the fortress the cold damp, mudwalled and matched
hovels that look back those
through the rainbow bfodered clouds Of
But would have you regard them in their reatytheir
wild. comfortless, coarse and reatynol sor
geous Imagination the novelist would paint but the
fidelity Of history would describe it hin aud around
feuda Domains superstition and relgicn ignorance
and knowledge, udeness and renement suffering
and comfort by violence poverty caused
by direct oppression, the e Of his brothermau his
slave, without the obligation protect lin and despntc,
auIes force encountered with its panopy, ruling
hords of human beings, coared and driven like brutes
The landhodng nobility and the squad serfs of Russia
living examples ia their nations, of what al
universally obtained few centuries since between lords
peasants, warke baron and their sod followers. Now,
having gazed this picture, its contrast in
homes i'll this land, Heaven and reclaimed
yesterday from the wilderness. Let any village and neigh
bofhOOd of the West and the they will awaken
reaching Virginia, North Carolina, and the New Eng
land States afford the contrast Our villages and residences
are also guarded have noticed in the rapid gance have
them the glorious summer months Of climate
But their seninels LOFTY and beautiful evergeens
guarding Of houses, stores and mechanic
shops with the Hall Justice in and Churches
inerspered The dwellings much of the pattern.
few are stories, Of and half two
sOries embellhed with blinds, and yerdant and
blooming front yard In various directions from the
main well titled and productive farms with
and comfortable and sometimes elegant resi-
dences upon hillside, beside the gently flowing
streams wind amid orchards, fields and meadows The
picture would still orcbe, if here and there the
hum of the tall factory whsng of locomotive
were herd commngug of boys and girls,
rushing schoohouses, sprinkled over the whole
country. And these will have brothers Of other
States have them. The inhabitants nearly level,
where equality Is not the guardian of large population,
the well well clad negroes, reclaimed from the
forms barbarsm and contented under The direction
teIgent mercul and independent masters, ad
yancing in industrial civil habits enjoying the highest
condition any their Every white adult male
voter and may aspire highest duties Of the Church
offices newspaper is printed in village
course Academy often College is there and the
the nation and the discoveries of science, and c
dogmas religion duly discussed by the resde
by roadside in summer the store, MILL shops,
post-ofCs all of the year Among population
but very little poyeryand perhaps that could
not remediedf the dignity Of labor resp
duty THERE'S but little crime-aDd defence
less age and delicate every where safe Front
secured by slender bolts of which might be
wrought bars fastened the iron
gates encient castles hon rather
Coloues captains aud cOrporals, in al
every family, engaged in very warlike operations
unless be with each other in the cOnquests gain of
beauty pleasure We forget general except
upon musterda and rarely that forget its
and popular The doctor may not be verv
scientific provided he be soca5le and attentive. The
preacherae the preacheris the butt criticism every
body public property and DO his perform
miracle and satisfy everybody The representative
pays pOtax neutralizes vote of the man Of
thousands and who pays fhis neghbor
Col Upper Ten, with his big brick house." fellow