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

aborousy the earh and makes her mans
Venerable is hard hand, crooked coarse; Wherein
Notwithstanding, lies cunning virtue, indeeasiby royal
scepre of this planet. Venerable too rug
ged face all weather -tanned besoed with rude nteIi-
gence for is the fsce of man, living manke. Oh
the venerable for thy rudeness,
must pity well love thee Hardly brother
For was thy back bent were thy straight
and fingers so deformed Thou vert conscrpt whom
the lot fell, and fighting battles, marred For
in thee, too lay Godcreated form but be
folded encrusted stand thick adhesons
and DETACHMENT of abor and thy body like thy SOUL
not to know freedom Yet toll on, toll thou art in thy
duty be out of it who may thou toiles for the altogether
| indispensable, for daily bread
"a second man Honor, and still highly; him who
tong for the spiritually indispensable; net daily
bread but the bread of life. Is he too in his duty,
deavorng towards inward harmony revealing this by
word through all his outward endeavors be they gh
low Highest Of all, when his outward and inward endeav
| one when him artist; not earthly
craftsman only but inspired thinker that with heavenmade
implement conquer heaven for us If the and humble
toll food the high and glorious toll
for him in reurn that have light and guidance, freedom,
Immortality these two in all their degrees honor; all
else is chat and DUST which let the wind blow whether it
Isteth.
'sUnspeakably touching it, however, when find both
dignities uned and he that toll outwardy for
lowest of mans wants. also toiling inwardy for the
highest Suomer in this world know | nothing than
peasant SAINT could such now, De met with SUCH
wii take thee back Nazareth itself; thou wilt
the splendsr of heaven spring forth the humblest
depths of earth, like light shining great darkness.''
All honor, then labor with its strong muscle, manly
nerves. its resolue and brave heart Honor the sweay
brow and toing brain. Honor the great and beautiful
arteers of humanity; manhoods toll and womans task
industry, maternal watching WEAKNESS;
teaching wisdom and patient earning the brow of
that presdes the State the heart of anxiety that
the Church. and labor that tolls in the
workshops and fields beneath the sacred and guardian
sway thai oyerarche the world Heard the
in the deep-echong forest There echo
that speaks of and infancy and dependent
its strokes for bread defence and comfort II merely
therefore, the hard hand and the sweay brow that
We see moral significance spiritual discipline, relg
ious conservation, pure, often heaven
and more benefcen than much that the sacred
of Religion that from pulpit and press And should
such worke be sad go forward his toll degraded
the spirit of his mind Why glorious the
world is The product of Godapponted Rbor-the
the body Of the mind The genius
trophies of work. The cultivated fields the
industry The rising cities, the stretching railways
crowded mars the enriched empires all
outgoings of the toisome hand laboring The
pyramids Of Egypt the and temples Europe and
America the buried ruins of Asia and Mexicoae grand
footsteps of labor trdng time past and present. without
which the achievements If the and the gories the
other would never have been.
But these may called vague generaties and so they
are, il stop the reflections sub
ject however, is but introduced its
particular acquaintance. We wish speak the dignity
of honest toll We wish say that he,
living, is the only independent rghfo told
up his head in the of Kings and stand fearless before
the grandees of the earth. Such a neither be
bought soldcan neither be abashed If he
speak, he may speak the TRUTH convictions
sincerity which be said of the slaves aciaism
in whom cunning has the place wisdom crcum
A .lT.itb
initiate the serviw of the poor bow binding
of the rich. And if have influence, either
private public, it will generally be wise, sautary and
practicable. But have truth the part which
labor exhibited in the arts played
revolutions that have brought into existence the republican
institutions Of modern times, and which any
gle element of power have promoted present
civilization. state that the producing Of all
governments have been the mechanic appeal
history for the proof.
The elements of modern society, with reflective minds
date back least the fall of the eman Empire The
very of that Empire still calls all ideas
grandeur, power and msgnifeence had produced
who in moral dignity and force Of character have per
surpassed upon earth Their
the inheritance of mankind, and their shades pass
amongst encompassed by atmosphere of glory
when we think of government, united, vast and uni
form, extending Euphrates to the Atlantic, and
from the shores of Britain andhe borders of the German
forests the sands of the African DESERT consolidated into
wealth. united by the bonds Of govern
ment by the facilities commerce. and the dissemination of
the classic languages the largest number of the tribes
and nations Of the earth. Ant when this empire FELL
amid the expiring embers of civilized institutions
trucon of Cities and the usual safeguards Of property aud
life, the whole of Europe parceed military ed
venurers-ealed Feudal, properly, Alodal lords
who constituted the powerful despotic
landed sristocracy the world Their
their earliest history the chase and pasturage they
without cities contiguous welngs they parceled
out the lands of their military cOnquess between themselves
and the original pOssesor generally king wOhirds and
In the Of the Vanda all the best lands Of The eonquer
Odprovnces. These lands made pass chill
dren the of their failure kin,
and only small part of them aienable females
The system of almost universal prevalence. eXended
the whole Kingdom of Charlemagne the Kingdom Of
Aragon the Neapoitan Provinces Denmark and Bohemia
gave character English conquests Its
privileges were enormous possessed all the offices of
and power; whilst all degree lineage
were degraded to a condition of servude which liberty
could 1t and kings until It made
such able strip il of Of its high perogaye
and ALLEVIATE them to the This aocracy held labor
in perfect contempt; and gentleman in France and
many could not exercise trade, without ierogang from
his rank. Much OF the affected real contempt
the unfortunate classes of modern society still hold the needy
IabOrer inherited from the euda haons like most
unworthy inherances is less worthy of respect
in Its haughness of birth looked in disgrace
upon marriages class any it, and con
hcated The property OF the parents The children
marriages were not received into any order nobility,
regarded much elevated above the class
tainted with the aoy their pleban extraction. And this
Of things continued until monarchs began
titles Of nobility upon favortes BIRTH,
which conferred some of the privileges OF lineage
and extensive domains. Now, ask, what the
society cOuntebssnce and unnatural
conquered pOwerl There that in the
hands OF the of the soil Seated in built
castle, overlooking whole county, the euda lord was
monarch of all he surveyed. His word law; his
beck the will Of thousands. He said 'sgo'
and he went; to another 'come,' and he He was
magistrate, sheriff. and jury. His court Of
nominal Justice the vaults below the prisons of his
victims, who starved away their lives the dark
and dampness of unvisted dungeon The haugh-
ness inclined him a solitary or selfish life
ever a repulsion Covered with his coat Of
mall cuirass, jonted correspond with eveTv
movement of his body with hucker which he could Op
pose every blow, and casque which, visor was
lowered enclosed the whole head he forth only to
command and feel himself imperyious Of any
Injured vasssl To of inferior class he
dealt death around him without fear Of personal Injury, and
single knight OF more importance haH hundreds The
pebans unable to offer him slightest resis-
tance But his authority, that with all
these he eompee 10 keep up address
and strength; his immediate dependents