Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1857-05-29

LABOR SAVING MAcnINERY. The following
is from an address by Rev Ed. Huntington,
before the Boston charitable Mechanics
Association.
The old spirit ia ~ no moons dead,
which has pcrscculll tao prop bets, and
ridiculcd the thinkers. and starved the in
novators; which, in the old world, has
often collected a rabble to mob new
discovery that came with healing on its
wings which forbade Watt to open his
instrument shop in Glasgow which COM
PEELED the House Of Representatives Of the
United States, in 1910, to refuse Robert
Fulton the use OF their hail to deliver
lecture on steam navigation, on the ground
that 1t was a visionary scheme : which
snecrcd at FultDn's Folly ~ it was
nicknamed, in Browns shipyard, at New
York which actually broke the heart of
poor William Lee, in the time Of James L.
driving him by English Indifference, to
France, and then by French bigOtry, from
Rouen to Paris where he died in misery,
because the world would not let its stockings
be made by his stocking machine, which
in South America according to humboldt,
instigated the citizens to petition the
government against the building of II road
among the Andes, lest it should damage the
interests Of the carriers, who had enjoyed
the monopoly OF carrying travellers across
the mountains in baskets strapped on their
backs which influenced the SWISS peasants,
when they saw Rupp constructing the SUI
perb slide of Alpnach, for bringing down
the pine timber Of Mount Pilatus into Lake
Lucerne, to accuse his trigOnOmetry Of
being the inspiration of the devil which
drove the lace mandatory and prosperity
out of NOttingshamshire into Devonshire
which, only forty years ago, threw brckbats
at collier in Philadelphia who brought
down nine wagon loads OF mountain coal to
SELL hootng alter him as an imposter, that
pretended to sell stones for fuel which
trembled all the way from Boston to Albany
when the Western railroad was about to be
laid, with the ludicrous fear that horses
would go out of fashion, and have to be shot
down Ill their shoes as a drug which trettcd
the Flemish gentleman, who began with
commiserating American ignorance, but,
alter hearing IRON his American fellow
traveller a description of Amos Whittemore's
clrd machine and Thomas Blanchard's lathe
pronounced them impossible. grew angry,
and took to sulks. at the impudcnce Of the
Yankee who undertook to put off upon him
these stories of CULVER inventions which
drove llargraves out Of lancashire for his
life, and prompted Laurence Eirnshaw to
break up his own machine, in n fit of
benevolent apprehension, lest he should
take bread out Of his neighbours mouths
when a bold improvement on both their
designs by Arkwright gave wages and food
to millions OF wOrkmen. raised the com
merce in cotton from two million pounds a
year to a thousand mil lions of pounds, and
poured wealt into the treasury Of the
nation and the world.
" The final cause Of labor-savinr cjntriv-
ances is to increase labor. This is the eter-
nal paradox of the worlds growing civilizl-
ton. a mechanic is not worthy Of his
me, who prizes any such piece Of work
manship because it releases him from action.
or rclaxes the necessity of his doing, he will
PRIZE 1T precisely as bringing Il means. and a
stimulus, and time, for doing more than
ever. The several industries Of mankind
move forward under one harmonious plan
Every Legitimate development or production
in one favors the others know of nothing
in the whole history of man more beautiful
or more majestic tnan the certainty Of thi,
rule, The illustrations of it are the annals
OF all the arts. Apart from its own iaScinat-
ing interest, it is one of the most splendid
HiOOlo VI bllN bCihE hu'i IlpNIb'htc VI ''ph
1t is a more convincing argument for reli-
gion than often gets voice from u pulpit
1t is as sure a. gravita ton, that every frost
mechanism lie puts into the world through
an ingenious mind. lie takes up and make.
a part Of his unimpeachable goodness. 1t,
incOnveniences are local and temporary it.
benefcence is cosmopolitan and permanent
1t enriches, employs, establishes, equalizes
1t creates demands only to satisfy them; il
saves expenditure only to scatter it with a
wider sweep. \ few copyists are. at first
sent adrift by the printing press, but what
an army of minting operatives that mighty
engine nourishes to-day a stu
pendous philanthropist of en-
ployment, if that were its only func-
ton The sewing machine may bring a
brief embarrassment to the poor semptrcs. ;
let thoughtful charity consider it, and soft
en- the transition but, in the end. she also
Will be the stronger and better for it, if she
only keeps her own mind with the times.
1t she sits sullenly down, and complains. or
persists in making her fingers competitors
OF wheels and spindles, she will be crushed
There is less stitching to be done. that her
faculties may be liberated for larger enter
prises, and her hands find a more exalted
ministry. 1t is futile to be Jealous of the
laws of progression. lie. US rather make
them friends by conforming to them, and
get them to back us up, by standing
on their side. We must all 20 where the
Almighty points, and not ask to have the
orbs of celestial light stand still for our
private accommodation. We must be hos
pitable and brave in our welcome of the
new future, as well as thankful generators
of the old past.