Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1860-07-13

years ISJ tllS crazy frame decay Slal
break out of it one Of these days, like a sun
burst upon a mountain top, when he comes
out Of his chamber in the east, to run his
glorious race around the arch Of heaven.
am mol old, and when you bury my bones,
remember that am not dead. Peter was
bewildered when he proposed to build taber
nacles for Moses and Elias on the Mount Of
TRANSPORTATION. When we leave our duty
here we 60 up higher When this frame
has lost its strength and beauty, the kindly
mother earth will sweeten aud freshen it into
youth .ain; and the linn Is of its life will
widen into glorious liberty. IIallelujah
The light of these eyes is growing dim in the
light Of paradise
Idiots and drivellers, from seventeen to
seventy, think the world is coming to an
end when worn out frames and worn out
things are blown up, but such dotards are
but first cousins to the beast that perishes-
all but the beauty. Such cattle have about
the same right to scratch their heads for any
thing there is in them ,as SO many ring-tailed
monkeys and, very likely. will make as
much by the operation. Ulere Bill, turn
up clean tumbler and give me a drink Of
water-)
1.-The follies Of the dead are buried with
them. They were not worth mindlng, then,
nor remembering now; but didn't | tell your
respectable daddies that they were making
fools of themselves in the whiskey insurrec-
ton? BlackguardiSm isn't democracy
When Washington came to Bedford with
the army, the Allegheny mountain rocked
under bis footsteps, and the diminutive little
manikIns that danced like drunk monkeys
around their pig nut liberty pole in the dil
mOnd over there, trembled in their shoes till
you could hear their toe nails jingle. | was
a democrat, JeiferSonian democrat, then, as
am now; but wasn't a demagogue, a
coward, or q broad mOuthed brawler against
my country, its laws, and constitution.
Your grandmothers can tell you what
rumpus the same ninnies raised around me
tor the first wagon road made over the noun
tains to Pittsburgh. 1t would break up the
pack horse men forsOoth and the tavern
keepers and horse breeders would be ruined,
when one wagon could carry as much salt,
bar iron and brandy from Baltimore, as
whole caravan of half starved mountain
ponies But ! told them then, that Of all
people in the world fools have the least sense:
and that they would live to learn that the
best way is as good as any; for, when was
n
too much is plenty. in the American mean
ing Of the word. That's the difference be-
tween a man of faith and the snobs that do
all their travelling in a treddmill.
But with such snipes, hothing can be
done. Cure them of witchcrait and they
slide into fortune telling or some other stu
pid kind of wonder working; for they un-
derstand nothing, either by insight or eXpe-
renee. Afier a while, when the prosperity,
which they at first resisted, poured down
upon them from a spout, they went crazy,
and | was mobbed again for standing by
Simon Snyder's veto Of that batch of shin
plaster banks which the legislature chartered
by a two-thrds vote, and gave YOU your
keepsakcs of Owl-creek and Mutton-town
bills. And now, wheeling gee, as much too
tar as We went haw, before, you are below
ing at the top of your voice aud the end of
your wits, against all bank paper
is it any won Ter that keep up my old
grudge at the Devil for making such people
Jack, Go a darkle carter, occupied at the
other end Of the table upon the breast bone
Of a turkey, which he was polishing), you
may as well quit beating and bothcrng your
mules, make your brcech bands of sheet-ron
and the traces of c5bwoh. for the m re- YOU
wallOp them the more they Won't e. Wy
ionkeys are of the same breed psrcil .tley
are all on a spree, Just now, kickia- ont
their hoofs at free masonry That's the se
cret OF all the villainy and blunderlug IN
legislation, is it? Butter your brains and
give them to the dogs for new year gilt,an
let somebody else do vour thinking. Oh, its
enough 10 sickeu snipt.ta ha1r a twop.nny
railing at toe great men who
have given US our free institute Us. au! .uIt
up this model republic into worlds ,-on-
der; and to see a herd Of dwelling noodles
drinking in his profanity like the words OF
life But Providence always had his hands
full Of such forlornities If lie can bear
with them | may He will find the men,
somehow, when the time comes 10 do mp the
worlds work upon the principle of eycrlast-
ing truth The universal laws keep the
earth in Its orbit. and all the crawiers on It's
surface can shake it out OF shape, or turn
it from its track. | believe and live Be
hold, We despiseTs. and wonder, and perish.
And there is the common school system
that have been laboring for, until it is
at last fairly on foot. See that You keep 1T
alive, and make it answer the glorious pur-
pose Of its establishment. Don't clip II
down to nothing by your bcgsariy economy
| wish to the Lord that you understood
thinking as we'll as you do eating, and could
feel an empty head as painfully as an empty
stomach. Can't YOU understand that keep
ing money in your pocket is not saving II?
4 dollar IN a buckskin purse won't breed a
sixpence in a hundred years; but employed
wisely in the service Of soul or body, 1t Will
bless the one and gloriy the other. II you
can't see the policy of education, make re-
Igion Of it, The world Of ideas is the world
Of spirits. Introduce your children there,
for every good thought is a guardian angel
to the dear little lambs. And don't stop
lust where reading. writing, and arithmetic.
can be worked into dollars and dimes. Car
rv them through and over this sordid world
into God 5 world-up to the circle OF the
heavens, where he sits governing the universe
by his laws. Every discovery in the truths
Of Nature is so far into the counsel and con-
fidence Of the Supreme Ruler. Only the man
that has the mind Of God is gOdlike. Now,
for Heaven S sweet sake, educate your chill
dren. You may talk stupidities about the sal
aries of public officers, as you did against me
for voting a gentlemanly per diem to the
members Of Congress; but don cheaper your
till nobody but bankrupt cob
DleTs, naDltual u1unkdfus, fillitc. t'h-
sumptives, and such other ugly incapabes
can be got to serve you, for very shabbiness
of the salary. Buy cheap store goods, if You
like, for when they wear out You Will know
it, and can replace them; buy cheap ProyIs-
ions, and eat the less of them; buy anything
cheap but cheap talents. Don't venture upon
that speculation, for YOU are no judges OF the
article, and the only way for you to insure
the excellence Of the quality is by the hher
ality of the premium which you VIII offer
for it; that will bring tho genuine into the
market, and the bogus VIII be clearly cx-
posed by the difference Of the ring, weight,
and quality.
Il 20 in, ye see, Tor the arto OF peace. the
prosperity OF the people. and all that blesses
and embellishes the life of man; but | would
not forget, on this great Sabbath day of the
nation, the glory our country has won in the
field and on the wave Ii isn't the pluck OF
the bull dog or the game cock in soldier
which admire, but the high-souled heroisln
that chooses liberty above life, and knows
how to make victory blessing to the world,
In the Revolution, and in the late war
with Great Britain, we fought against foes
who were, only generation or two back,
hone of our bone and flesh Of our aesh born
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