Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1855-02-09

SHNcSs aOeiiS uIouAh kcucIahonn, nave
wrought into the very blood. II is in the
stock. Go where you will. Yankee is
a worthy creature. He is the homer bee
of mankind. Only Work is royal among
us. 1t carries the sceptre, and changes
all nations by its touch, opening its treas
ures, and disclosing its secrets.
But with all this industry You shall find
nowhere on earth so little drudging work
as in the North. 1t is not the servitude
of the hands to material nature. 1t is the
glorious exercise of mind upon nature.
They vex nature with incessant importu-
mites. They are always prying, and
thinking, and trying.
In California, gold is found in quartz
formations. But, in New England, and
the free inventive North, in the geology
Of industry, gold is found everywhere
in the straw and bonnetS, in leather and
stone, in wool, in felts and cloths; in
wood, in stone, and in very ice. Il is
wrapped upin the beggar's rajment, which
unrol in our mills into paper-yeoterday,
beggar's feculent rags; to-day, news
paper, conveying the worlds daily life in
to twenty thousand families. And SO
great are the achievements of labor that
everybody honors it. 1t stands among
us as an invisible dignity. -Four spirits
there are that rule in New England-re-
ligion, social virtue. intelligence and
work and this last takes something from
them all, and is their physical exponent.
So that not only is work honored and
honorable, but the want of it is an i'm
piled diScredit. The presumption is al
ways against man who does not labor,
LABOR IN THE SOUTH
And ii is this innate, hereditary indis-
position to work, that, after ali, is the
greatest obstacle TO emancipation. Lazi-
ness in the South and money III the North
are the bulwarks of Slavery To take
, away planters slaves is to cut Of his
hands. There is whe, e he keeps his work
There is none of it in himself And it is
this, too, which leads to the contempt
, which southern people feel for northern
men. They arc working men, and work
is tiav vored tc the southerner with ideas of
r ignominy, Of maanneas, of vul gar low
{ ness. Neither can they understand how
+ a man who works all his lifelong can be
: high minded and generous, intelligent and
refined.
e Not only is there this contrast in ligni-
$ ty OF work, but even more-in rights ot
e industry. Work, in the North has re-
e sponsibilities that are prodigious educa-
o tors. We ordain that man shall have
), the fullest chance, and there he shall have
n the results of his activity. He shall take
c all he can make, OF he shall take the whole
V result of indolcn nee. 1t is a doubls edu,
: cation. ltinspires labor by hope of frui
Y ton, and inton@if:os it by the fear of non
t fruition. The South have their whole bo
o dy Of laborers at work without either re-
sponsibility. They cut it off at bot
}, ends. They virtually say to the slave, il
: reality, "Be lazy, for all that you earn
$ shall do you no good be lazy, for whc1
;. you are old and helpless we are bound tt
/, take care of you"
1t is this apparent care for the helpless
s ness of slaves that has won the favor o
: many northern men, and of some wht
ought to have known better the effect O
e taking off from men the responsibility 0
l.. labor, in both ways, its fruition and 81
c penalty. Once declare in New York tha
), Government would take care of poverty
: and old age, so as to make it honorable
and it would be a premium npon improvi
It dence. With us it is expected that every
: man will work, will earn, will lay up, vii
= deliver his family from pnblic charity
: There is, to be sure, an Aims House, te
catch all. who, by misfortune OF inprovi
k dence, fall through. But such is the pub
S lie opinion in favor of personal independ
: ence springing from industry, that native
It born American citizen had rather die thar
so to an Aims House Foreigners arr
a our staple paupers. Our charity feeds the
: poor wretches whom foreign slavery has
: crippled and cast upon us. But the whole
g South is vast workhouse for the slave
while young, and vast aims house fo1
i him when old and neither old nor young
t Is he permitted to feel the responsibility
a for labor. And,this, too, explains the ap
: parent advantage which the South ha.
C over the North, in the matter of paupor
: ism and distress. The northern system
e intends to punish those who will moi
n work. 1t is not a system calculated fol
slaves nor for lazy men.
e EDUCATION IN THE SOUTH.
k In such Society, there cannot he {
Common School, in any such sense as We
il mean it. Indeed, there cannot be general
: education in any State wheae ignorance is
= the legal condition of one-half the popu.
= lation, as is the case in many southern
! States. Ignorance is ain institution in the
= South. 1t is political necessity. It is
}, as much provided for by Legislation and
: by public sentiment, guarded by enact
e ments, as intelligence is in the North. Il
It must be. The restrictions which keep il
J. from the slave will keep it from the whites
n excepting, always, the few who live at the
h top. There cannot | e an atmosphere O.
i intelligence. Slaves would be in danger
of breathing that. There cannot be com
l. mon public sentiment, common school
|, nor common education. knowledge i.
o power, not only, but powder, putting thu
South in the risk of being blown up, BY
o careless handling and too great abun
v dance.
e NO FREE SPEECH IN THE SOUTH.
No man has liberty to talk as he please
about the structure of southern society
- and apn1v tn tho raol f,ate of on,+Lnr,