The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-05-16
Two Kinds Of Labor.

There are two ways OF doing any busi-
ness. from building empires to making pms.
One is to suceumb to the outward nscessi-
ties Of the task; to grind or as before. and
get living, to be dragged, with reluctant
and abjeet moods through the wontsd mo-
tons with no elastic spring, no Illumination,
putting no mind into them. Its ihe testi-
mony Of the best practical observers among
mechanics, find, that familiarity with the !
details of any cEaft, does not, BY any means,
dispose men to study its principles; but
rather the contrary. And this is just Whist
was to be expected; for il is 20 of every vo-.
cation under the sun. You will find in thema
allfhe piodder, the Ounce, and the slave. ON
the one side; the vital, thinking, riddle
solving, discovering master, on the other.--
There are doctors sho bleed aud dose ss
mechanically as the sewing machine punches
the stitches in the pillow-cass. There are
engineers as automatic as their engines
There are school masters, as regular, and
hard, ana smooth, and dry, as tEeif ferules.
There are pFeachers,--clerisal- grinders at
the pulpit,--with whom, when,the taxi lifls
| the gate, the mill-wheel begins sermon-wiss
| to go. Those that fall under this torpid mo-
notony miSs the whole charm that God has
! woven about every honest pursuit. They
go round and round, in the old seryile track,
| with want for their oyerseer; custom tof
| their cherries cabin, and hunger and or, ing
| children for the whip and gong of the piai,-
tation. The deadening paralysis of repeti-
| ton strikes in among their most thrilling
concerns, dining all their splendor and spoil
| ing their fascination.
The other way is to bring into everyday
service so much mental activity, so much cu-
| riosity rs to all the methods and mysteries
of that kind of work, from the origin of the
raw material up to the last result and higL-
| est finish of the product, that the workman
may be said to hold has work under hiIsa
| while he does il, and maintain an honorable
mastery over bis trade. Master-workmaB,
| in this sense, which is the true sense, every
workman can be-here at least, in New Eng
land, where there is school house in every
district, and library not far of. Spiritual
things apart, this is the foremost of all dis
tincti0ns Republicans ought 10 know no
other nobility. To be intellectually the
commandant of ones place and calling,
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ry forge, in the cabinet of natiunis admin
istration, or in the shop that makes cabinets
for the people that make the administration
that is TO belong TO the senatorial order OF
men. This harnessing the whole intellect
to the common business is blood and titles,
stars and garters, scepters and crowns. IL
is this that converts the jOb-mason, laying
brick upon brick, into the artistic designer,
that carries cathedrais in his brain.
1t is this that makes the difference to-day
between the beggariy Mexican, scooping up
precious minerals and metals by the shovels
full, and the affiuent Yankee, digging through
rock and ICE. and all the tough resistance of
the earth. 1t il this that turned all Boston
into pageant of grateful memorial for abe
boy that began by cutting candle-wieks in
his fathers Chandler, and ended by laying
the capstoDs of the temple of nstion's
freedom, and electrifyiBg every interest and
every home in civilized landstgith harmless
| fire from the skies. II is this that has horns
on the slender southern orphan to be the
pathfinder of continent, the pioneer ofthe
last great wildefness-expioratio that the
globe can require, the climber of the top
most peak of The continent, with his eonii-
iry's flag in his hand.-F. ID. HusTIssroz.