The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1855-12-15

compared with reality.
These principles a extensive sense applicable
to nations we'll individuals; and each country within
itself should establish free commerce. that the merits of
every part may be known to the rest and each profit by the
excellence the whole To follow this analogy through
liberal commercial intercourse each nation derive from
ali nortions some usef cusoms arts or laws This country
is perhaps indebted to than any other for
its present position among the nations OF the earth for 9th
erwise would have been born waste its fragrance the
desert air. Commerce, literally guarded and protected
the channel through which receive supplies and have
for comforts and uxuries grcfed and in this
valuable in exchanging it helps excite encourage and
reward the highest exrtons of body and mind 1t slim
uates the industry expands the views assists to form new
opinions teres every region not covered with perennial
SHOWS penetraes the ootest the highest noun
tans, and carries with it civilization religion the and
sciences wherever it spreads Commerce assists in the educa
ton of nation advances the price of labor for By i'll
they stimulated to increased exerton furnish the prn-
cpa commodities for trade The mind stimulated to make
discoveries in the and sciences to increase its value.
Suppress and the busy active of honest
thrift and industry would angush the comforts and uxuries
of life would disappears the arts and sciences would degen
crate; the pow would almost stop in the fuow and
who stands pre-emnent among subnay Objects would near
Y rapidly degenerate into ignorance and superstition he
from the profound depths of darkness and doubt in
which he was placed at the beginning OF creation.
Commerce, in its extensive relations with all nations is the
medium through which communicate IDEAS, our nven
tions, discoveries and improvements In this
constantly brought in competition with other countries
These collisions to stimulate to act vigorously
in order to compete with them This rubs off the rust and
keeps us ever bright
We frequently hear say they have time read In
occupied with the duties of life, that have o
portunltles tor the Improvement OF the mind We should
learn economise time 1t only necessary make The
trial. learn how much could be gained by pressing
vice every leisure moment for the benefit of our faculties
believe there valuable time lost in the pursuit of amue-
and idle pleasures by than there spent in
reading and contemplation If we would rightly estimate the
value Of the of leisure time which allow
unimproved every day. should fnd in the aggregate
ordinary life time had permitted not only but
weeks months and years. to pass unimproyed and who
calculate the value of time thus wasted? Moments
the golden drops of e and must be improved have
them in possession, they lost forever There
very few whose business relations varied and
pCated, that they spare little of almost every day
for contemp paon and study they of temperate and
regular habits Our business much less urgent in its calls
upon than Incidence and pleasures There
few who spend the mosto their time in literary pur-
SUITS but the larger portion of active business and proes-
siona constantly occupied with the duties of their
avocations and probably have little time spend in
reading and contemplation those who employed in the
humber pursuits of life 1t is prevalent complaint among
business men. before remarked that they have time to
read and have doubt there very many of them who
read nothing but the daily papers left their places of bust
ness, for months at time Thee is me this of
the year. that it would had been apart especially for
benefit for the benefit of those who constantly
poyed sin manual labor and mechanical industry The in
cemency of the weather would preclude the possib-
ity of much labor out of doors; and, in place like this
there little call from home in search pleasure the
evening. This is propous time for contemplation and
study. The noise Of life is huhed says eminent writer
with