The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1860-04-18

time that the people paid some
the substantial interests of the&
ceased to pursue phantomss th9f
elude their grasp.
4 AComnunleatlOn.
The following article is s.
earnest request that it may be ins1f1n
know nothing Of its applicati0
society, but the sentiments
suit US to 7, and the article g6cs7H
columns without hesitation:
MY DEAR FAYErrE FRIEHDs The
which l spent in your rural town, and
pleasant associations connected with "a.
memory Of you and yours, has melted such !
an interest in my heart for your welfare,
that feel compelled to impress upon your
innocent minds an important fact Of which
you seem unconscious you are snubbed
literally snubbsd! You are trampled up
on by Goldfish Aristocrscy, whom you
mcekly allow to make timetable for you
to run by. In the vain hope of elevating
Your worldly interests you will succumb to.
nnhpwn intellectual standard lower
cd; but do you not know that you are
building your lighthouses on a slippery
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slowly, steadily, but surely the fall is inn
pending, and sooner or later your beautiful
castles will lie crumbling in the sand, a heap
of hopeless ruins. There you are, a free,
| enlightened, educated people, led unwilling
ly around by few third rate, button-but-
ton, who s. gothic Observation-Disclosures, who.
would shrink and dwindle into insienifi..
canoe beside the bold, unpretending, whole
souled sons and daughters of New England
parents, who perhaps ignore Languages"
but understand their mother tongue. Will
you, men, women, boys and girls, of mind
and talent, suffer yourselves to be cramped
up in this style? to be placed in the back
ground Of some snowy, cheap picture, or to
be used as foot-lights in the great worlds
illumination? o, ye are willing subjects f!
and-pardon me- sometimes think. fit
ones too.
Now am plain and old-fashioned, and,
trust, am not the dups of vain ambition,
and perhaps know but little of the conven.
tionalties of society" but do you think I
would be ninny, to dodge and skulk about
in the water, and serve as food for the.
greedy sharks? No indeed! if could not
be whale would not swim in that sea
I'D go and plump into frog pond, and
screech as loud as they would not have
you stoop to level with the sharks-by no
means; but be independent, and if you
cannot be first-class whales, be first-class
frogs. Do not serve as chinking to fill tho
vacancies between Eastwood logs!-
But observe how this finny tribe, cmanat.
ing from some distant lake. resort to little
pond, and build around them stone wall
an inclosure to protect their refined senses
from the vulgar world-and really +! thew
do SO far deceive the inhabitants Of tho
pond, as to make them believe they arc
mighty and of G cat force. BY a superhu-
man effort in self-exaltation, they manage
to look slightly in their own eyes, at least.
but compare them with genuine monster
of the mighty deep, and what arc they, but
Gerry small fish,
My dear friends, how long will you let
your canoes float listlessly about with the
oars lying idly in the bottom? How long
will you stand with your arms folded wait
ing for an invitation to sail in their leaky
bargcs? How long will you wear those
meek, nerveless, ambitionless looks of as
kance, and your hearts 60 pit-a.pa with
flattcred vanity, to receive their smiles of
gracious ndscension upon an inferior p
How long will you allow yourselves to be
huddled together in an obscure corner, and
sit there in obedient, bashful silence? How
long, l ask, will you do it9
Why don't you fly around and form .
band Of your own, (you are prettier and
smarter than any of them) cease to pamper
their babyish appetites:. with gratifying dc.
voirs, club together, find social enjoyments
in loftier and more elevating pursuits, and
leave them to buzz around and play ''but-
ton," "bob," and "squash" to the fullest
extent Of their educated abilities. B
To refer you again to the mill.pond, you
know that frogs will croak the loudest Who
have the most conspicuous places. And to
those whose waxen minds have heen mod.
eled to satisfaction by cunning fingers, who
are loyal worshippers of this shrine. let me
respectfully inquire, do you think that, be-
cause dozen grasshoppers in field mako
the air to ring with their ceaseless chirrups,
while thousand oxen 9 andipg in the shade
chew their cud and ara silent that the
grasshoppers are the only tenants Of the
field! or, that they areanything more thar
useless, noisome and brainless Insects Of =
day! Yours with much concern,
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