Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1864-04-13

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old homestead, and In interchanges of affec-
tionate greetings with brothers and sisters,
married and settled at distances of twenty
TO htty miles apart, was not deemed an alb
solute waste OF time, nor even an expert
ment on fraternal civility and hospitality
And, though cultivation was far less effect
i've than now, it must not be inferred that
food was scanty or hunger predominant
The woods were alive with game, and near
ly every man and boy between fifteen and
sixty years OF age was a hunter The lar
ger and smaller rivers, as yet unobstructed
by the dams and wheels Of the cotton-spin-
ner and power-loom weaver, abounded in ex-
cellent fish, and at seasons fairly swarmed
with them. The potato, usually planted in
the vegetable mold left by recently extermi-
mated forests yielded It's edible tubers with
a bounteous prOfusion unknown to the hus-
bandry of our day. Hills the most granitic
and apparently sterile, from which the wood
was burned one season, would, the next
year, produce any grain in ample measure,
and at moderate cost of labor and care
Almost every farmers house was a hive,
wherein the great wheel and the little
Wheef-the former kept in motion by the
hands and teeto of all the daughters ten years
old and upward, the latter piled by their
not less industrious mother-hummed and
whirled from morning till night. In the
back room, or some convenient appendage,
the loom responded day by day to the move
ments of the busy shuttle, whereby the
feeces of the farmers flock and the fax of
his field were slowly but steadily converted
into substantial though homely cloth, sufi-
Gent for the annual wear Of the family, and
often with somethingovert to exchange at the
nelghborlng merchants for his groceries
and wares. A few bushels of corn, few
| Sh tart Al
| few saw logs, or loads Of hoop-poles, made
| up the annual surplus of the husbandman's
| products; helping to square accounts with
| the blacksmith, wheelwright, the minister,
and the lawyer, if the farmer were so unfor-
tunate as to have any dealings with the lat
| ter parsonage. His life, during peace, was
passed IN narrower round than ours, and
! may well seem to us tame, limited, monoto-
nous; but the sun which warmed him was
identical with ours the breezes which re-
freshed him were like those we gladly well
come and, while his road to mill and to
meeting was much longer and rougher than
those we daily traverse, he doubtless passed
them unveXed by apprehensions of a snort
ing locomotive. at least as contented as we,
and with small suspicion Of his i'll fortune
in having been born in the Eighteenth in
stead OF the Nineteenth Century.
The writer next gives the value of the
products of the entire industrial interests of
the country, las per census of lS60-referS to
the subject of slavery before the revolution |
during the revolution and under the Con-
Observation-Disclosures to the causes that super
induced the formation and adoption of our
National Constitution and the results that
have flowed therefrom-recurs to the ques-
ton Of slavery under the Constitution, and |
to the Missouri COmpromise-revieWs the |
doctrine of State Rights and Modification, |
and gives a brief biography of Andrew |
Jackson and John G. Calhoun, and the part
that each of these two opponents took in |
the momentous subjects that agitated the
country in lS32-quotes the opinion of emf
nent men on the leading topics discussed in
this work, and gives the rise and progress of
Abolltlon-and refers to the opinions adopt
ed by the churches on the subject of slavery,
and the cause of the pro-slavery reaction,
and gives the various causes which
brought about the present great and iniqui-
tous rebellion.
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