The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1857-04-27

There are two ways OF doing any business,
from building empires to making pins. One
is to succumb to tho outward necessities OF
the task to grind on - before, and get q
living, to be dragged, with reluctant and alb
ject moods through the wonted motions with
no elastic spring, no illumination, putting no
mind into them. II 10 the testimony of the
best practical observers among mechanics,
find, that familiarity with the details OF any
craft, does not, by any means, dispose men
to study its principles; but rather the con-
trary. And this 10 just what was to be ex-
pected; for it 10 30 Of every vocation under
the sun. You viii End in them all the plod-
der, the Ounce, and the slave, on the one side;
the vital, thinking, riddle-solving, discover
ing master, on the other. There are doc-
tors who bleed and doss ~ mechanically as
the sewing machine punches the stitches in
the pillow-casc. there are engineers - au-
tomato a. their engines. There are school
masters - regular, and hard, and smooth,
and dry, As their ferules. There are preach
ers,-clerical grinders at the pulpit,-vith
whom, whom tho text lifts the gate, the mill.
wheel begins sermon wise to 60. Those that
fall under this torpid monotony miss the
whole charm that God has woven about every
honest pursuit. They 20 round and round,
in the old servile track, with want for their
overseer, custom for their cherries cabin,
and hunger and crying children for the whip
and gong Of the plantation. The deadsn-
ing paralysis Of repetition strikes in among
their most thrilling concerns, dimming
ill their splendor and spelling their fascins-
ton.
The other way 10 to bring into every day
service 80 much mental activity, 20 much Gu
riosity ~ to all the methods and mysteries
Of that kind Of work, from the origin Of tho
raw material up to the last result and high
est finish Of the product, that the workman
may be said to hold his work under him while
be does it, and maintain "a honorable mas
terry over his trade. Master workman, in
this sense, which 10 the true sense, every
workman can be-here st least, in New Eng
land, where there 10 schoolhouse il every
district. and library not far Of. Spiritual
things apart, this 10 the foremost Of I'll die.
tinctions.. Republicans ought TO know no
other nobility. To be intellectually the
commandant of ones place and ealing,
wheresosver- on ships deck or at faeto-
~ forge, in the cabinet Of nations admin
istration, or in the shop that makes cabinets
for the people that make the administration
that 10 TO belong to the senatorial order Of
men. This Harvesting tho whole intellect TO
the common business 10 blood and titles,
stars and garters, sccpters and crowns. 1t
is this that converts the job-mason, laying
brick upon brick, into the artistic designer,
that carries cathedrals in his brain.
1t 10 this that makes the difference to-day
between the bsggarly Mexican, scooping up
precious minerals and metals BY the shovel
FULL, and the amuent Yankee, digging through
rock and ice, and oil the tough resistance Of
the earth. Ii is this that turned all Boston
into a pageant Of grateful memorial for the
boy that began by cutting oandle-wicks in
his fathers chandlery, and ended by laying
the cApstone of the temple OF nations
freedom, and electrifying every interest and
every home in civilized lands with harmless
Are from the skies. Il 10 this that has borne
on the slender southern orphan to bs the
pathfinder Of continent, the pioneer Of the
last great NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. that the
globe can require, the climber Of the top
most peak Of the continent, with his coun-
try's Gag in his hand.-[F. D. Huntington.