St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-07-08

Responded to by Mr.. P. G. Turner.
Mr.. p. said The assembly has been
so long together that do not feel dis
posed to detain it any longer by any
extended remarks but as each senti-
ment as given from the stand has been
promptly and heartily responded to,
do not feel at liberty to suffer the
claims of labor to be without an ad-
vocate. / am the more ready to say
word for the cause of labor because |
am working man.
From the earliest time it has been
ordained that man should earn his
bread by his labor. 1t never was, nor
is it now more divine command than
a necessity of mans physical nature.
His animal wants and the wants Of
his soul have alike rendered labor in
dispensable. They have consecrated
and ennobled it whenever and WHEREBY
or it has been useful or honorable to
himself or his fellows. Whenever
and wherever it has been prosecuted,
in no matter what the pursuit or pro-
fession, to the advancement of human
well being. Labor is truly bcauti-
full ordination, and when controlled by
intellect, which also tolls as well as
the animal faculties of man, it has
achieved whatever is most bencficent
and permanent in all the progress and
triumphs of the race.
Labor, even peaceful, has developed
art, science, trade, commerce, and has
i'm fact, subjected the earth to man.
1t has built cities, divided the land
scape into farms and gardens, from
which have sprung fruits and flowers
to crafty the appetites of man. La
Dor has fabricated whatever has served
our true desires, pleasures and aspira.
tons. The earth exhibits labor's tri-
umphs in its palaces and temples, and
the ocean in its fleets whose sails find
every land.
Rulers and conquerors boast of their
power and consequence. They arc,
however, but the dependents of the
masses who till the earth and provide
for the wants Of man. The rulers and
conquerors are but the disturbcrs Of
the quiet physical and mental voca-
tons to which man is bound and in
which he finds his noblest and purcst
pleasures. There is no true nobility
or independence, save with the divine
seal of labor, either Of hand or thought
upon its front.
All things great, grand and bcauti
full, in human achievement, are signs
of labor. The men who cut down the
, forests, who make the solitary place
to bloom the men who dig the min
erals from the mountains and join tho
timbcrs in the great ships till com
: merce whitcns every sea, and islands
i. i. arc made to clasp hands with the
! great continents and acknowledge {
fraternity Of interests the men who
accomplish this arc the true conquer
= ors to whom all honor should be accord
ed. They are the men who plougl
and reap the fields, who build the
forges and factories and beat time t.
toll with hammers and axes and spades
and trowels. And let me say, in con
: clusion, that it is only fools and drones
who dcspise labor. They whose daily
living is but swindle upon honest
ungrudging toll.
Is. Our Musical amateurs Without theil
harmonious strains the celebration could not
90 on Music hath charms to soothe til,
; savage breast
: NJ " G Stinson heino called said
;, / suppose the choir were partlcu
y Iarly referred to by the title of "musi
cal amateurs" though probably largo
number in the assembly are equally
entitled to that appcllation.
l believe tie dictionary meaning of
the term is Lovers of Music" We
have no particular objection to being
designated by the character of "musi-
cal amateurs" which means, being in
tcrpreted-thosc who are charmed by
music--but applied as it is coupled
with the other assertion that music
charms savages, we think it not par
ticularly tlattering to the choir We
don't know as it was meant to call us
savagcs.
We arc willing at any rate that it
should be understood that we love
music. We do not object to having
it said that we are charmed by it.
The wisest and noblest of the earth
have exhibited that same weakness.
1t is recorded that Napoleon's faithful
Swiss Guards in France, who dreaded
no danger, and shrank from no duty,
wept when they heard their native
mountain airs land that Washington,
who has been SO highly eulogized to-
day, was frequently moved, even to
tears, at the sound of some simple
melody.
There are some people who dislike
music. They have a great dread of
strains particularly those strains that
require an exercise of the bone and
muscle. They hate chords, especially
those cords that are made of hemp
They do not fancy the idea of going
on to the stage in iegatO movement,
and going off again stacoato, in double
quick time with accelerated motion.
They do have little fancy for bars
those bars where whiskcy is rctailcd
at five cents per glass. When they
perform, they usually perform base
part, and are much inclined to dwell
on low motes,--in other words, to live
on such notes as can be bought at
very low price. They are the class of
individuals to-. whom Shakespeare re-
fers when he says:
The that hssh music In himself.
Nor Is not mov'd With concord Of sweet sounds,
Is fit for trcasons, stratisems, and Spots"
We do not oovct their reputation,
but think, rather, that there is no bet
ter evidence of the moral character of
people, than the fact that music is
highly cultivated and appreciated
Music is not merely diversion it
is not merely an avocation of pleasure;
it has higher, q sublimer mission.
1t is the prerogative of music to tune
discordant man,-who is the only be-