Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1854-08-25

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bath at Syracuse. Chance or toll in con
necton with labor does not make lilerar
men. KEEPER was once in the depth G
poverty, and Calico on the rack, an
Wordsworth in The prison. Truly, then,
"The keen spirit
| Seizes The prompt occasion, makes the thou gll
| star into actions and at once
! fIans and performs, resolves and executes"
Honorable fame can only be acquired b.
labor-the sine qUa noR-the philosopher
stone, the Aladdin's lamp. Ask the farm
err if there is not dignity in labor, and wha
will they tell US? those men who
Are a sort orstuf
Iyrants will ALWAYS find too tough
For them TO work up into slaves,
The servile tool of lord'v knaves.
Those men who till the stubborn soil,
Enlightened and Injured TO toll
Cannot be made to quail or cover
10y traitors art or tyrauts power;
They might well attempt to obtain
The west wind in hurricane:
Make rivers run up hill frghtning,
Or steal a march on kindled lightning
The great sea serpent which we've read of,
Take by the tail anG snap his head off;
Attack the comets as they run
With loads Of fuel for the sun,
And overset by appropriation
The shining uminaries Of creation
The Milky way we adanize,
A railway raise TO span the skies,
Then make, to save AppolIo's team,
The solar chariot go by steam.
"Labor conquers all things" and the
dignity attending it is above the dignity of
anything else Who was Ksop, but a de-
formed slave? Epictelus, the stole, was
for many years a slave, and when free,
could scarcely end means for subsistence.
lie resided at Rome, in house without a
door, with no furniture but table, and at
the same time was astonishing the world
and receiving much flattery. Milton sold
his immortal poem for five ponnds, and Lin
neus his labors for single ducat. Boyle
and Colin were hired authors, lived on a
pittance and
Enjoyed spare feast-o raddish and an egg!"
TO labor is to worship. Let no man be
ashamed that he labors for a living--labor
gIorities the humble lott in dleness there is
ignominy. Labor is the life of humanity,
and though sometimes identified with mis-
cry, yet there is great glory in it, All
useful and beautiful thoughts are the direct
products of labor and dilligent elaboration;
all that we call progress, civilization, and
property as well as wealth, depend upon
labor; the last history owes its excellence to
industry as much as TO genius.
The Parthenon begun with n mud hut,
and the last judgment in few scratches
on the sand; and the best poem that ever
was produced cannot send down its indy
ing strains into the future without painstak-
ing labor. The same in every other case
the truth is, nothing can be accomplished
without labor consequently there is dignity
in it of no small magnitude. The editor is
indeed very great laborer, and his fruits
are never appreciated. Who have been
the bright stars in science? Who have
shed bright halo around it and hreathed
a breath Of life intoit? Men in aflluent cir
cumstances? man Tapped in luxury or rest
ing in bed of down? No, we must not
look there for them, but see them emerging
from the hovel of obscurity-track them
through the brambles of poverty and the
fires of affliction-go weep over their hard
fates in the chains and dungeons of perse-
cution These are the men whose names
On sciences scroll, and the movements of
whose ravished minds we trace every day
Then let us all
awake 10 effort while The day is shining,
The time TO labor will not always last,
And no re grets, repentance, nor repnng,
Can bring to us again the buried past,
The silent sands of life are FALLING fast,
Time tells our busy pulses one by one;
And shall our work, so needml and so vast,
BE all completed but just begun,
When twilight shadows veil lile's dim, depart
ing sun.
The smallest bark on life IS tumultuous ocean, !
win leave track behind forever more,
lightest wave of influence set in notion |
Extends a nd widens 10 the eternal shore.
We should be wary, then, who go before
A myriad yet to be, and we should take
Our leav ing carefully where breakers roar"