The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1857-07-15
AMONG TIE HILLS.

I,s benefcent fate that even in the sor
Of treadmill life of an editor calls US out now
and then among the hardy yeomanry and
pure air of The hills. Doubly grateful 10 our
weared brain and body is such trip when
in town the mercury reaches close 10 the
100 degrees, and The brick walls and pave
mems seem huge oven. And not only is
the air more genial out here, redolent with
the odors of The new-mowA hay, but there
is a like refreshing spirit of Kindness and
Hospitality in the hearts of The people.
The farmer holds closer communion
with nature and natures God than the mar
low mind pent up IN the narrow walls OF
,he town. He may not be able 10 read the
city daily in the morning before the dew
gems have ceased TO sparkle on his meadow;
but the hearty friendship Of his neghbore
and the smiles of his homes, family awaken
aud exercise in him far better nature Than
the detsils of murders and conspirucies move
in his less modest town cousin. The rise
and fall OF stocks do not distract nor drive TO
suicide the hus5andman, but his heart and
brawny frame seem TO widen out as if in
sympathy with the expanse OF his broad
acres.
Out here among these hillsides and val
leys Of Orange we forget the selfish jealousy
of small men seeming great-of candidaIss
for Congress each envious Of the other-of
politicians each one afraid lest some other
may grow greater than he. ard therefore
poisoning minds against such rivals as are
in his way, like in The days Of The Borgias
the vainly and wickedly ambitious were
wont 10 poison food.
Aye, human nature is ever the same; and
lis frailies only take new forms and new
names with succeeding ages. The politics
nf Machavcli come round again with the
same merring certainty as the planets OF the
physica world. But the lsms which spring
from the diseased mind of city fanatics iud
IN lodgment in the clear healthy minds OF
our yeomanry. No wonder iha, in the Will
mot district there was lately an application
for incorporating borough one mile and
three fourth square, where less than 100 per-
sons lived, and where two OF the proposed
borough lines ran through an uubroken will
deness. No wonder that Wiimot incorpo-
rated lhe borough, and the Supreme Court
reversed his decision. There were no DOUBT
many great men there a, Il, to rule borough,
as we have now in our district hi TO goto
Congress; that is--in their own estimation.
No pF ho Ism n
Tor The hesh2ol and coTnptions of the towns
they have become "too smar.," and ought
10 sweat out their spriualism in such ram
bles as ours among The sweet realities of the
Orange hillsides ard valleys.
Your political Cataines only !aiten in the
grea, sores OF the city, and their degenerate
Imiaiors in some town We mean the reck-
less men who have neither character, merit
nor means, and who yet by brazen impu-
dence play upol and cheat the good nature
OF the public until repeated rebuds ard dis
appointments make them desperate adven.
turers for any enterprise. When man has
no public spirii, and no interest al stake IN
the society around him, you have no bond
for his good behavior, and you do him a
great unkindness by leading him into tempt
alton.
All hail 10 the true hearts and the stout
hands OF the thrifty farmers-lhe only true
masters of the earth-and after each of whom
it can elruly said that the world is better for
his having lived ia il.