The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-07-09

all the land, and with him share life of
toll, than to choose affiuence, with such a
biped possessing neither manhood nor wo-
manhood. Labor too has its rewards-How
true are the words of the Preacher that "the
sleep of the laboring man is sweet, whether
he eat little or much but the abundance Of
the rich will not suffer him TO sleep" -
The idler is a stranger to the refreshing
influences of sound sleep, because his
whole life is one inglorious snooze but
the man who has experienced the luxury
of fatigue, knows how to enjoy the attend
ant luxury ofrest. So, also, the bread of the
laboring man is sweet, and he partakes of
it with a relish which the child of idleness
and luxury cannot know. Let it not be
supposed, that am lauding manual labor,
at the expense of Intellectual toll; that
am approaching the labors of the man who
works with his hand, and depreciating the
labors of the man who works with his
mind. These two kinds of labor are not
the enemies of each other, and both are
necessary, and may unite, and should much
more frequently unite, in the same person.
Many of the useful arts afford boundless
fields for intellectual effort, and where this
is not SO, mental improvement, should be
the recreation of man, whose chief business
it is to labor with his hands; and manual
labor in the workshops, on the farm, or in
the garden, should be the recreation of the
man whose life is devoted to mental toll
By this means, the man who labors with
his hands for his daily bread, may become
the peer in knowledge of his co-laborer,
who works for the same object, with his
mind, while the child of mental toll, by
seeking recreation in manual labor, pro-
notes health of mind and body, learns to
sympathiZe with those who labor, and expe-
riences for himself in some degree, the
sweetness of the food and sleep of the labor
ing man. The man who devotes himself
exclusively to manual labor, and the one
whose daily pursuits are entirely mental,
cannot properly sympathize with each 9TH
er, and neither does justice to the other or
his calling. If professional men by way
of recreation, worked more with their
hands; and if mechanics and other labor
ing men more frequently sought relief from
bodily toll in mental recreation, each
would learn better to appreciate the other;
and greater degree of sympathy would ex-
ist between these two classes of work kers.-
The small talk, which sometimes passes for
w.t. aimed by one class at the other, would
soon become less exclusive, and bodily and
mental labor, twin sisters as they are,
would 20 forth hand in hand to bless
the world. Do you ask me for exam
Piles Of the dignity of labor as illustrated
in the lives of men? My reply is, Benjamin
Franklin was printer Elihu Burret was
a blacksmith, Hugh Miller was a stone
cutter, and the founder of the Christian Re-
ligion was a carpenter. The Apostle Paul
who apart from his inspiration, belonged to
the noblest style of man, illustrated the |
dignity of labor, by making tents for his
living, and inculcated the duty of labor by
promulgating the righteous precept, I" that |
if man will not work, neither shall he
eat"