The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1854-08-19
1.-The Worries y

lhere are class OF thin skinned gentry.
odorous from the toilet and labelled with
white kids and patent, who turn up their
noses at what they call the workies." The
: honest brown handed mechanic and artizan.
whose toll builds up cities and fleets. and
enriches the world, and whose sons, educated
ut our noble free schools and academies. will
by and by, as " "selfmade men," rule the in
dustry and the councils of the land. ara
held IN contempt by this horde of modern
arIstocracy-thc most shallow and insuffera-
ble that ever disgraced humanity-who
seem to have forgotten that their fathers
were gardeners, butchers, tailors, and tinkera.
we hardly know how to utter our scorn
OF such caricatures Of mankind. There is
no language adequate to measure the lit
tiehess and meanness to which they sink in
the scale OF honest judgement. "The work.
les !? We should like to know, if the work.
les were taken away, what then would be
le't. Only foul scum, compounded about
equally OF knaves, fools, eharletans, and
demagogues-the fungi Ut the world
parasites on the enterprise, the industry,
and the moral worth Of mankind,
we have taken glance through onr city,
not to 60 farther, to see what "tGe workiesn
are doing They are building the ships, or
forging the engines which are to compass
land and sea, linking the nations in
brotherhood, by the bands Of commerce.
They are rearing the great store-houses and
palata dwellings, in which our {. merchant
princes" live, move, and have their being,
They are performing all the real labor of the
intercbangcs Of trade, the rich profit of which
crafty middle men reap. They fill all the
artizan shops, ringing out their sturdy mu-
sic Oh the anvil and with the saw, the trowel.
and the plane. They are, in fact, producing
all that is produced. Upon their sweat our
city lives, expands and grows rich and bean
titnl. They feed and clothe US all, and yet
band Of effeminate idlers, whose lives are
round of debauches and shame, point at
workers the finger of contempt! Out upon
such insolent affrontery.
We, that is Mr.. Pick-have been work.
er, and hard-worker all oar life. With us
it has been necessity, duty, and plcas-
ure to work, and we have not felt our moral
or social worth, nor our nobility" disgraced
thereby. It is the divine injunction that
"man shall earn his bread" and we have
been ever ready and proud to fulfil the in
junction, even by grinding with hand
organ, and we hold ourselves. all inky az
our fingers. may be in putting the PICK to
press, as good in blood, and spirit, or what
ever goes to form an essential 8anhood, as
the best man on earth. We will not say as
good as the thin-skinned gentry under notice,
for we would shrink from shaking their lep-
rous hands, though their liveries we're .
thousand times more imposing, and their
kids and patent leather had ten-fold
fairer lustre. -
Honest, useful labor IS the patent for true
nobility. We are satisfied in striking for
that. We prefer not to rank with those
who build no monuments and leave no signs
when they die, that they once lived; we had
rather count with the great host who have
opened up the treasure Of the earth, founded
cities and nations, and left everywhere imper-
ishable traces of the power and the genius
of men. We hq4 rather be the honest
builder Of pyEs1, palace than ita idle
robber tenant. : II We had sons and daugh-
ters, we should curse any fortnnethat wonld
leave them to idleness,. oFinspire them with
contempt for labor. The working man L
lord Of the earth, however much he may be
swindled, robbed, and oppressed, Such are
Mr. Picks sentiments. Price, only 8 centS.
ALAS 4HE BAcasIoa--We dropped ID
suddenly on visit to p bachelor scauaint
anee the akherday .says the Sta Q1iii s3ger,
land Just as we made our sppest put
a s|somithing In biz peck tSsrY huSyiedly aud
sIieoksd Guilty ssif he had been capgh tpn ,
setoa xpsnstsr. We cast our eYes xt III
tff3ckek md way ont hung th6s fsscfA.-
st 1 his kings The poor nnisaysbls
II EfStIIdR haa been dafninE y, and il sstUnkhxd
al fiS fo te6sMhat poffe6 f6iis shS arrived s1t ID