The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-10-22

II not a full proportion of brain for bod
among the city-born-an excess, alas! i
often the case. 1t is the quality, the fiber
that is lacking. There is intensity, bu
not power. There is the brilliant spar
kle of the moment, but not the capacit,
for enduring long, deep, racking though
IS aud calculation. No mind, unsupported
st by a sturdy physical constitution can per
form much of this. But the great dcsid
eratum Is a ariU TO do. The country man
habit, acquired from infancy, of bendiu.
both mind and body to his task, SD tina
re the fee ing of responsibility, and the stud
d and struggle to discharge it, has not the
intolerabie irksomeness, that bushes.
o must bring to a youth bred in idleness anC
freedom from all care-this is what make.
c ;he grand distinction. In a word, tn,
e youth reared up without acquiring labo
c rious mental habits, t1tU not, in manhood
= as a general thing, SO burden his mind
and, with effemiuate physical powers
could not, with safety to his health, if be
would. The great achievements of tGe
age, indeed, in every calling, require an
t amount of brain labor, not to be prudent
~ hazarded, ordinarily, except by those
who, both in mind and body, have that
natural, healihfui Robustness and yigor
which a country rearing is SO peculiarly
adapted to bestow. Look at our great
capitalists, lawyers, statesmen and diyines
whose labors are now doing the most to
mould our country's features in their re-
speciive departments, and you will be as
tonished to find low large a proportion of
tLem were tho g whose young siuews early
warrcd with the forest or guided the good
old plough"
Shall We stop here? 1t would seem ar
Iogance if affirmed of ones own class, to
claim more for it for We have affirmed
already Of agricuiturists, that from them,
chiefly, our country has it's conser-
walton and its progress; and that
they Keep up and elevate the standard
of humanity, both in t~hcphysicaI
and mental. But we must claim
yet more. The great bulwark OF morality
is the country. For, in the words Of the
old saying, ''God made the country, but
man made the town. and truly the NOR
al phenomena wrought in each seem as
diverse as the makers. How pryverbi-
ally Dangerous, morally, Is the rearing of
boys i'll town! Even cur small towns ru-
III a large share Of the young men they
rear, aud large towns and cI,ies mourn
fully increase those statistics Of juvenile
vice, and youthful bankruptcy OF charac-
ter. Oa the other hand, comparative
moral purity distinguishes the young man
of the country. Instead of the gilded
bal s of temptation, and the alluring
haunts of vice, he has about him, in his
most impressible years, the influences of
unsuiiied nature, like a voice of purity
and a breath of innocence surrounding to
bless lin foreve~. He grows up in the
fear of that God whose works have been
his companions, and with a sacred regard
for the rights of his fellow men, whom he
has Chiefly known and sympathizcd with
as his comrades in honest, useful toll. For
in this very toll, n noble duty is perform.
ed, while It's occupancy of heart and haud
shuts off a thousand temptations to strife
and Gin. These u Priori reasons tally
completely with the whole statistics of the
case, to PROVE, then, i'll addition to all else
we have claimed for the country, as con.
trasted with the to@n, that in it must be
found the moral stamina of our land and
nation. Taking now at a glance the sum
OF these considerations, aud in what
amount of Indebtedness to the agricultur-
al community are we involved! They
give us bread, muscle. brain and morals.
Verify, here Is ths substratum of society,
the very foundation of our country's good,
greatness and prosperity. Well sings the
bard
"Then hoi Farmers, hoi
For yours is the best vocation.
Gods first command was to till the land,
In the morning of creation"
Who could believe, with these things
before the mind, that any, in this boosted
land Of equality aud Intelligence, ignore
the farmers claims to their gratitude aud
consideration, and wen treat him as an 5
inferior? But not less true than hulniii-
are the words of the song
''Full many there be, whom we daily see. E
who, with selfish and hollow pride, Z
The plOughman's lot, in bis humble cot, g
With a scornful look deride." I
yet there are maDy-to their honor q
De 1t said-who amidst all the destinations Il
# artificial society, are ready to join L
heartily in the poets response to all such t
corners
But I'd rather take, ay! a hearty shake $
From his hand, than TO wealth I'd bow, L
or the honest grasp of that hands rough t.
clasp n
Hath stood by the good old plough" s
Let tEis manly and noble sentiment be b
choed until it shall shame into oblivion 81
~ ONiAS 49, HNiSC CAisiIiS III WdDS IL
Ecak young skulls and fostered by some c.
'lder ones, that labor, especially in tilliug il
he soil, is degrading. Pass it around, }
lntil many a young nan living a useless, il
not a dissipated life in town, shall be- II
himself to the glorious, healthful y
ouutry, doff his coat, learn hat a perspi. VI
is, and how sweet the taste of a Z
Tell earned loaf of bread. When will tc
men see the folly of "crowdiug III
he professionals for the mere chance OF il
precarious support. when such u life of q
liberty and independence" is offered on OF
he fertile plains of our great, roomy, Ia [
or-wooing land Macy of you may re- til
a paragraph which vent the 1t
ounds of the press some years since. con- pl
aiming a strong, homely piece of advice GO
ivcn by Thos. Corwin, while u cabinet .;
lember at Washington, to a young man pa
somewhat importunately, a petty th
lerkship in the Treasury. L can only ar
i've the substance of it from memory of
Young man." said tho ,chizom wagon Dr.
oy, ''you know not What you are asking, q,
or how little a kindness it would be, in
ould [ grant what you ask. You see not di
humiliatiug dependence and uueer. ia
Unity of such II position. We arc all here tn
t the mercy of others. Should 1 give fla,