The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1859-10-25

and all the world with notions and machln-
cry. An officer Of the navy, lately sent
me wisp of straw from the room at St.
Helena, in which the Great Napoleon died
now occupied by Il Yankee machine for
separating grains.
Where are not her sons: where are not
her daughters? They are everywhere -
God bless them! If yoa take the wings
Of the morning, and fly TO the utmost pats
Of the earth, they are there. Could you
borrow the wings Of the lark, and soar to
cmpyrcan heights, il is thousand TO one
that some adventurous Yankee would
shake bis balloon ballasts down upon you
from atovc. Wherever enterprise disiurbS
the sleep Of ages; wherever invention cir.
cumvonts space and time; wherever the
compoHabio cottage, the thrifty town,
the voluptuous city, are made to spring,
magic Ike, from the paihlc>s f'rasis, OF
the unreclaimed praric land, there you
will find them, hand in hand with the
wanderers from European and English
homes. OF course they are hor9-herc
where the nature has leen transformed in
space as brief rs to cl.eat old Time cut OF
his reckoning, from the rorgh titanic beau.
ties Of the wldcracss Of scenes Of artistic
and natural beauty lha, rayish tic unschool
ed eye Of the bcholler. Here they are
her sons and her daughters
What constitutes the secret Of their sue
cess! More than anything else, in my
judgement, it is the capacity for alternate
omploymcnts. /, is rare TO find Il Yankee
who can do but one thing. Their double
and triple faculties are variously applied in
every department Of industry. lsaw, late.
ly, in secluded farming town in New
Hampshire counted upon a slender noun
tain stream, not over four miles in lcgtnh,
and Supplied with water bat three or four
months in tho year, twelve or fifteen little
manufacturing establishments Of the most
primitive character and cost. This illus
tratcs industry and symbaIizos their power.
The trees are growing while you are sleep
ing, SAYS the Scotch provcrb. The Yankee
i busy when nature les dormant and dead.
Farmers in summer, manufacturers in win
ter, fishermen in season, mechanics AMI
ploughmen the rest part OF the year. STU
dents in term time, teachers in vacation.
In climate like ours, mer should hyUer.
nate like animals, if no pursuit but that Of
land culture were intended for them
] sec no ia5uperabla obstacle in the way
of successfully combining minor mrnufac-
lures with agricultural pursuits. The RIG.
or and length Of our waters are the bug.
bears Of farmers. The second half of the
year consumes what the first half produces
In climates where a rigorous winter holds
nature in fctters Of frost for six months in
the year, a possible alienation of employ
mcnt is demanded. lnnumcrablo adyan
taGcs would flow from the adoption Of such
an idea throughout the northern States,
where it is indispensable to a full prosper
ity that the ri g5;s ola lon1 winter should
be circumycuted. Men accustomed TO me
chanical cmpIoyments for a palt Of the year
would apply to land culture, the small saw
ings and the new IN 'thods ensure SUCCESS
in mechanics. And thus the farmer would
aid the thrift and enterprise that distin-
guishcs purely comerciaI communities TO tho
industry enjoyment that have marked az
rical,ural pursuits from the beginning Of the
world. Every LilI and valley sLoUld glow
with the INDUSTRY Of the shop wiki the seas.
enable beauties Of the arm, that leisure may !
be proftably employed, coutamralions Of |
ideness dispcIled, anl the lcsolatc places
made musical with the ham Of market
towns and the sustained energy Of city
population.
The m,nuiictuin. interest Of our coun
try cannot be fulIy understood without
: ,laraling its major and minor proluets.-
Staple manufactures are governed by tie
same laws that control agricultural staples.
They require concentration of capital and
people, and limit profits to first and few
hands. The minor manufactures, more
important in their aggregate rcsults,di!usc
profits equally among all; they are confined
10 no localities, demand no accretious of
men, capital or skill; they are limited TO
no class, AMI seek 40 credit. Where water
power fails steam is applicable, AMI where
steam fails. the balance.wheet and hand
power suffice. No class is to feeble to
share thair toll and profits, none too ,igor.
Gus for their highest duties. They are
Ike caics; sCurccsof the mechanical wealth
Of England, Holland and Spsiu, and have
blessed every land That has made them wei.
come. They have the same effect upon
men as upon States, create artli!ccrs, and
nycntng the products Of tLcr skill Why
hould We not combine mechanical and
agricultural pursuits, and running summer
and winter into on season, create people
md prosperity such as never stood under
lie barning eye ofP tropical sun, without in
ringing N any mauEerupon the prophecies
II the occasion. : may say, that industrial
interest Justly lcmond tie dterreatioa ded
I'D otHe GoreyRMct, not as n favor, but
Is Il right. In many respects lis ntervea.
ion IS iadSpeasjble,dS IL regards pr perty
II land, ia 6.rcaijoa, and the statute reg
lidtioas Of trade ghjcb hare beea recog
uscd trom tie jegiatay Of tie world.-
No divorce can separate industrial interests
rom the duties OF Governments. They
hould he neither hostile nor indifferent, but
ounded uppon the principles Of recognition
aud support. They have now neither dcs
,oli,ms, uog dynaSties, nor aristoc:acies, nor
umics,uor na, ies 10 magnify or perpetuate;
md except it be a guardian Of the material
interests Of people, with the intellectual,
moral and religious intoros,s inscparably as
,oeiatcd with them, there j. now little OF
10 mission for Republican Governments
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