Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1860-06-21
Communication.
FREE LABOR.

penned that clause OF our CONSTITUTION WHICH
prohibits all titles OF nobility, they did not
buse it on the postutste that American cit
izens would be less capable than those Of
the Old World Of attaining the highes, de-
grees in the scale Of intellectual and moral I
being; but they deemed that no such arti-
fetal means were necessary TO cid them 10
doing IL. Both history and experience
taught those patriots that while tyranny
would certainly degrade men. freedom would
as certainly elevate them, snd that 10 leave
every man the un,rameled srbiter OF his
own.aortune was the surcst way TO secure
FOR him a high place in the scale Of destiny.
10 this way they hoped, not TO elevate
titled few 10 the corresponding depression
Of the mary, but to make nation of kings
and noblemen.
The freedom and equality OF our insti:u-
tions in no other wey promote this object
so well as in the encouragement they give
to industry. American nobility was design
ed to be Of that genuine type which should
not be inconsistent with the divine edct,
ain the sweat Of thy face shalt thou eat
bread" Indeed IL is the teaching Of nature
that no man can receive his full develop
ment, morally or intellectually, unless he be
rig;dly Industrious. Rev. Orville Dewey
never uttered a truer or sublimer sentiment
than this: "roIL, either of the brain, or Of
! the heart, or Of the hand, is the only true
manhood, the only true nobility" Aud in
accordance with this TACT, Free Labor is the
foun, ain OF OUR royal blood. Freedom makes
US Industrious, industry makes us homes; and
virtuuus and these confer upon us nobility
which cannot be bought By wealth, inherited
by blood or summed up in a paltry title. II
is nobility whose insi MIA are not the
gaudy paraphernalia which bedeck mon
arch's court. They are those which bear
the royal stamp Of virtue and patriotism -
They are such as mother Nature engraves
on our bronzcd brows, our hardened hands
and on those weather stained garment;
, where she has "embroidered midst sun ant
rain midst fire and steam, her own heraldit
honors." Nor are our laurels such as ,ht
conqueror wins on the tented plain, amt
!, the "prde and pomP and circumstance o
glorious war" Our trinmphs are create
than his. They are won at the plow an'
at the forge, in the forest and the mine
We grapple with the giant oak and Wit
the granite Of Our everlasting hills. We
: beat our swords into ploughshares, ana ou
|, spears into pruning-hooks, and amid tn
, smoke and dust and the triumphs of toi
sing the sweet lines Of the poet:
e "Who drives the bolt. who shapes the steel,
l.. May with heart as valiant, smi e,
I As he who sees foem and reel,
In blood before his blow OF might!
, The skill that conquers space anu time,
:, That gr aces life, that brigh.ens toll,
:. May spring from courage more sublime,
- Than tina. which makes realm its spoil"
From ten thousand hills and wales 10 ou
= glorious land daily the song of labor swell
e 10 the breeze like an anthem OF praise :
'e Yes, it is such; laborare est orare: to lab
is to prsy. Labor is dvine--it is worshi
I. Labor is worship the robin is singing;
o. Labor is worship-the wild bee is ringing"
,f II is the worship of American freemen. o
IL cathedral is a massive pile Of tinsel gra
- - deur. It's floor is the green carpet of o
,b dear native sod, its decorations are lakes al
at rivers and mountains, its canopy the b.
ip vault above u.s. Ours are no mumbled cs
o. emonies of mock worship. Toll, toll is I
~ universal prayer of our free noblemen-
20 prayer to which the ears OF heaven are ev
st open.
And behold ito answer. Free labor,
10. hold thy trophies. Look at thy railroads
the iron arteries of thy life blood-at
'or telegraphs---the nerves of thy busy thoul
on at thy cities--thy commercially smili
" land. All hail to the "swart artizsns"
inn America, who are too noble to be asian
zen of toll. Worthy sons are ye OF sires tn
wn guided by the star Of empire, dased 10 bre
a stormy deep In the leaky Mayaower.
who hesitated not to pour out their bloo'
INA Bunker's Hill or Braudywine as an offer
nal, to Liberty. Ye are the guardians of
'en' shrine, the sentinels..upon her watch-tow
'es' the keepers of her vestsl purity. Upon y
broad shoulders rest the hopes OF our &C
nuh' uy--of the age and of the generations
re. to be.
was But had almost forgotten, yea, l
ONE would have forgotten that even in the DO
MI, of this blessed land of Natures royal nc
IA ia men are to be found those who decry
that slander Free Labor. Yes, even in our n
hes are those who advocate and sustain 8,
we the whole tendency Of which is to re
:, S' ~ a disgraceful drudgeing, fit only for the
IL degraded portion of mankind. They v
81 aa roh 1, of ,ts nobilitv and its divinity [,