The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1859-03-24


hops Il, ,G6S, $50 bushels apples 9,23l,-
$50 lbs. wool S2,400,000, value of poul-
try SI.42I.750 miscellaneous roots and
rllits 20,965, SCI gallons milk 90,293,-
~ lbs. butter; 3S.944,249 lbs cheese !;
4935,8l5 lbs. sugar ;, ,557, $40 lbs. hon
ey; ST, ,l3S.US2, value Of gardens ;-glori-
Gus, bene6cent conquest OF nature for the
,ustenance of man.
Now comes the second army Of 214,S99
free labo3ers in manufactures, not clad in
ignorance and RAGS. but bearing the com
rt> Ut home, and treading the earth with
lie bold step Of men who know their po-
>usition and rights in the State. To what
grander music could this host keep step
than the iron harmonies Of machinery that
night and day. from the Ocean to Niagara,
sing the song Of mans coming deliverance
from slavery and want and subiection to
material things Look at their banners
flashing in the sun, Inscribed with their
record SI06,349,9 ,977, capital Of mechani-
cal industry in New York raw material
employed, Sl76,394.329; manufactured
articles, S3lI686,6S5; 24,S33 manuiac-
tones-or adorned with pictured repre-
sentatives of the myriad forms Of grace,
comfort and Ioveliness that issue from the
workman's busy hand.
Next we behold the concentrated col
umn Of 2U,756 merchants, who are the
agents Of the preceding host in transmit
ting the fruits Of their labors to the ends
of the earth. Here are the humble trad
ers of the half-peopled wilderness, side by
side with the merchant princes Of the
city, all bound into a brotherhood Of in
terest, and fanked by the professions that
depend upon their aid What a gorgeous
spectacle is this Wares and merchan-
disc, the products Of all climes-the beau
ty, and manners, aud civilization Of every
people-Heets Of ships sailing and steam
ing on Their ensicus-the long line of the
freight car-the slow procession Of boats
moving through green telds-cities spring
ing from the earth as by the summons Of
the enchanter, emblems Of Jaw, science,
charity, religion, endowed and fostered by
an a.,-embraciug Commerce.
And not far off, coming nearer as the
years roll on, would cluster the army Of
iaborers on the highest soil Of New York,
the souls Of her people. The teacher,
who receives the child from It's mother
the lawyer and legislator, who embalm the
peoples idea Of Justice in a statute the
editor, the lecturer and public speaker,
who stand at the ear Of the masses ; the
author and tine scholar, who appeal from
their obscurity Of today to the the future
need of fame; the artist, charming the
crowd bv the vision Of beauty; the preach
er, prophesyiug of righteousness and love
eternal all these, now too often account
ed the idlers in the field, shall one day be
known as brother Iaborers. toiling on the
submits OF the Spiritual life, towards
which the slopes OF this material success
ascend
What a review We're this-the most
powerful Republic marshallIng her armies
., Industry-and bless God. all Free
Men. Nowhere upon her broad and fair
eEpause does man toll in servitude to his
brother man and, so help Us, the Father
Of ALL while the Ocean washes the wharves
OF New York, and the hudson flows to
the sea. and the storms sing their anthems
up in the Adirondack, and the sun sets,
a golden glory beyond our western lakes
Jet 10 slave poliute cur soil. And the
day whose dawn snall behold this gIori-
IA, army. as one soul, lifting up its voice
before heaven. and registering an oath Oh
/ high iu behalf OF man, shall not decline
( to its evening shades until it hears, borne
on the south wind. the sigh of our Ma
tion's barbarism, proclaiming that It's sen
tence Of death has been uttered and its
nour Of abdication draws nigh.
/ Such Is the spectacle presented by the
( Free Labor of New York in its material
aggregates and secondary forces. But
these lead Us back to man, and while an
other class of teachers can best instruct
the people on the details Of political econ
omy and the arts of industrial success
the most profound questions to the Chris
tan philosopher will be: To achat spirit
uaJ end IS al His ! in lshat relation doe,
Free Industry stand to mans highes
/ good? and are re NOR on the 1ray to tn.
style Of Labor, achich IS the tit expression
I Of that best Civilization founded on tht
eUerlasting TAR Of Lore? !?
Labor is the point where the soul Of
man touches the physical world and the
quality Of work is the test of mans supe
riority over nature and altitude in the
spiritual existence, Free Labor, in it,
largest sense is the gauge Of National Ad
vancement. Every nation, in ancient ol
modern times, has been truly great in pro.
portion to the emancipa ion of its work
ers. The historian, Niebuhr, dates the
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