The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-07-09
EVANSVILLE, IND, MONDAY MORNING, JULY g. 1860.

! estly differ about their rights, there must be
rules by which these rights shall be ascer-
/ tanned, and tribunals by which these rules
shall be administered. The man, then, who
most faithfully observes the Eleventh Com
mandment, which, as | understand it, en-
/ Joins every man TO mind his own business,
will best serve his country and best exhibit
his love for that country. Let it not be
supposed that 1 intend to teach that any
mans business begins and ends with him.
self, his family, the community in which he
lives, or the State in which he is citizen.
! His duties may, and his sympathles
should, reach the outer verge of the circle OF
humanity, But what mean is that the du-
ties each maR owes to himself, to watch
over his own spirit, restrain his own pas
sions, preserve his own self-respeet and per-
sonal integrity, and develop his own man
hood, are paramount duties, and should 6rst
claim attention. These duties well per-
formed, will strengthen us for the
performance of duties of the domestic circle,
and the latter properly attended to will
fit US for whatever Providence may
require of US, towards our neighbors, our
country, and the world 1t is a law per-
vading our physical, mental, and moral con-
stitution, that use or exercise gives strength
to every faculty or power that is properly
exercised. That man who industriously
performs the labor of his calling, thereby
serves his country better than the man who
makes politics his trade, and whose chief
business is to save the Union and pFeserve
the Constitution. 4 seat on shoemakeE's
bench may be, and frequently is, more
patriotic position than q seat in Chicago,
a Charleston, or Baltimore Convention
4 continued and systematic attack, with
powder, pick and shovel. on a vein of coal,
deep in the bowels of old mother earth, is
vastly more patriotic than an equally per-
sistent assault upon the public treasury; and
yet the treasury miner will look down with
contempt upon the sturdy coal miner, who
is contributing his mite towards developing
the resources of the country, and supplying
the wants of his fellow men. By life of
honest industry in the position in which
circumstances or his own choice may have
placed him, the man who thus deports him
self not only best serves himself and those
Immediately connected with him, but he
also teaches the rising generation the beauty
and the value of industry by his silent but
eloquent example. Thus too, men with
stout hearts, broad shoulders, and strong
arms are developed-men who in their
country's time of need, have both the
will and the ability to defend her. 1t is
one of the glories of our beloved country
that we need no standing armies; that our
People are so loyal that military force is
seldom necessary to suppress domestic viO-
lence, and whenever such force is necessary
for that purpose, or to repel foreign inva-
sions, a citizen soldiery, emerging from the
farms and workshops of the country, are
ready and eager to volunteer to fight foI |
that sovereignty of which they are them
II
his country in the battlefield, the citizen |
who has become enured to toll sees that
when he was laboring day by day. in the
shop or on the farm, he was acquiring those !
powers of doing and enduring which his
country needs in her time of trial. Expert |
ence, too, proves that here, where the digni- |
ty of labor is to some extent properly ap-
preciated, the country may at all times con-
fdently look for the rank and file, as we'll |
as for the officers of army; and the rank |
and file themselves will contain the material |
of which the most efficient officers are made. |
Where labor is less honorable, the service |
may be overIun with volunteers, but, unfor-
tunately, they are chiefly volunteer cap |
tans or majors, colonies or generals, and |
the rank and file have to be raised by |
or by heavy bounties offer |
ed to foreign mercenaries. Who then so |
blind as not to see that industry is one of |
the high duties of patriotism, and who, |
seeing this, so unpatriotic not to be in |
dustri0us2 And now, gentlemen, | have |
performed the duty you assigned |
me, and return to your keeping the inter
ests of labor and industry, with the conf |
dent assurance that you will vindicate the
dignity of the one, and illustrate the patri-
otism of the other in your lives. So may |
it be.