Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-11-08


knowing II, a very material compensation for
many Of their privations in tho prompt access
they are permitted 70 such Batisflctions az thoy
have. Not but that the humblest cottage.
decsnty ordered, sbounds with checks. The
cupboard and the stated meals constitute the
discipline and order OF myriads OF households,
and raise them abO7o the hugger mugger Of
others, where the loaf is always on tho table, and
not moment is allowed to clatse between tho
sensation Jf hunger and lts satisfaction.
llaPger mugger, then, is the result Of dislike,
lmpahence contempt, or mera slovonly neglect
Of the received class interpostions between our
natural needs AM their iuhment. The medl
ums, no doubt, sometimes become excessive and
irrational, and ii 10 right to resist thom but
the advocates for their disregard or suppression
never treat them as restraints, and therefore as
dlsclpline, but only as minlstenng to tho pride
OF man. Med@Eal religion was In the habit OF
estimating a mans sanotty by the degree in
which he dispensed with the restraints Of the
life to which he was born, and confined himself
10 the pest wants, satisfied in the most
.lrect and informal method. 1t was n point TO
Gotp the condition Of the poor at its minimum
of requirements and what must many a
hsrmlts cell have looked like and been u-rushss
uapie-dish, ahi all iii We once enter into the
temptations to hugger-mugger Of that suleu,
solitary, negligent existence 1t was 10 the
same aprlt that sour Presbyteriana oppoGed
every new refinement and protested egainst
the Intervention Of forks with the argument
that God gave men good meat, and they we're
become to proud to touch it with their fingers
whereas, ID roality to psFsons habtaased to the
simpler method the new fashion must have been
a considerable trial Of patience =
q For much refinement, when II late arrives
NAY ae ~, grace not eoWfgII d or ysH"
| And in this matter q school Of philosophy has
sided with asceu Ism The new lights Of the
| last century who advocated savage life were real
| " eEaltrg GuEgermugger. This was the teach.
/ iug Of SAndtord and Merton inpersonated in
! Harry, who c)ntomned th' order and state Of
/ Tommys home, and for bis part saw no use in
any Of thoso fire thngs, but only ate when he
was hungry and drank when be was "dy." +"
THIS was tie meaning Of that theory, 50 plauti-
bic to 5oyhood, that every man should be odg
Gated with q ,es ts his Ls,hg same day left to
hia own resources on a desert island.
II absolute equality were ever attainabls, it
must ha through the means Of hugger-nugger,
which is the only true Ieyaller and ii should be
undorstood Ay every Han Who practices it that
be is doing his part 10 bring down his class to
! the one below 1t. II is sometimes quoted as an
instance Of noble simplicity that great people
/ jcfy conventional regulations but We MAINTAIN
/ thai when a duke carries bis own carpet bag,
and man of fortune travels second class, or
when anybody not pressed By absolute poverty
allows himself to appear in loIdii, iH-kept,
slatcfaiS attire, he IS inrIcting blow on social
order. What right has 6 man to enjoy all the
distinctions and privileges Of exalted station
without IL penalilts' And 10 be waited Gpoa,
instead Of doiog things for himself, in spite OF
the honor Of It, ray be one Of the most pfomi-
nent Of these penalties 10 faot, to man Of
ac yc, feGsy temperament, being waited upon is
often one Of the greatest exercises Of patience
| be can be pu. to. Indolcnce and practice com.
bind, learn, indeed to take il easily the lady
WHO summoned Quasha to tell Quaco to tell
/ fibba to pick up the pin that lay At her foat,
had 70 s4.t fJr her pm, and wa resigned 10 tho
delay. But there arc hundred things that
ought to be waited for rather than done irregn-
arly by lhe,prucipal's own hands An irresu-
! Arity which it is little penance to certain
people 10 uhstain from, Every naIure has ts
own form Of the temptation. There is the
indocnt and passive temper, that lsts.cyorything
take its course, and sits in a muddle from mere
weakness and poverty ol spirit and thore ia the
rea,lcss and busy temper, that cannot en-.
dare to wait for the propretes, and that reduces
things 10 disorder and confusion from simple
impationco Of form and arrangement. To teach
4 thsss tu'Y people that things will be d0no
though they do not do them is rare triumph
OF training. Hcslless bodily activity which has
once known the careless luxury Of helping itself
on every occasion, Of dispensing with complca-
tions Ia apt TO become hopoessly unmanage.
able. There is a concoit in the doing things for
/ themselves, mis;rust engendered by impatience
which makes these people the worst masters and
msirtssee in the world, and their houses the
wors. conducted though thesame temper would
bc Invaluable 10 thai condition where man
must do thing himself or ii will be undons,
and where Natures fne gentloman-seren 10
dgnfed confidence that the service will be rem
1ered, and that, come what may, he shall never
be subject to hurry, soudlo, and confusion
nigh. be rather at o loss, This humble vice
OF dong what it is not our business to do isl
subtle di,Qualder for high place, il a man has
ambition. This sham humility will keep him
back, and tincture his manner with indecision
and sell-distrust, infused By the Oahsslousness Of
being often Ia situation, and positions which
he wonld not choose tho world TO know.
Those men are powers in their own circle, and
sre es.eura oil consideration and regard, who stead
lY resist hugger-mugger and in .her nature
hate aud slhor lt,-1wh0 negeT sink IN their IN
ner spirit beneath their own implied and avowod
pretensions are never caught at unswares, and
are presontable down to every minute proprlotj,
Fhl. state Of thngs implies habilual seli're-
tpeet, kind Of sense OF desert (not necessarily
moral desert), and commands the Difference
which it taeilly claims. II q man shows, by bis
actions and his treatment Of himself bis own
ptessnsion., others will aeq1iesee in it,-and
with justice, for this is being true 20 anes self.
Shpa i opp is guided, not by What others see or
laink, but By an innate idea OF htne,s, love Of
order and refinement ior their own sake, wheth-
or others eyes are witnesses or not but all
this nacessitatea constant trouble and no end Of
sacrifices, and implies very exceptional sntas'
onism to all forms Of muddle and incongruity ;
for habits Of forethought puuetuality, proclsisn,
restraint, unremlttingly practiced IN what seem
small matters, involve greater selfcontrol, and
also greater strength Of will, than far moro con-
spiouous SACRIFICES made once ~ a Nay Mr.
Rlnglaks furnishes a pleasant example OF this
sort OF hero IN General Airey, who, when rough
ing it with his wife in log hut 10 Wes. Cana
da, where his appointment lay, manIully resist
cd the all but irresistible Establishments Of bug,
ger.muggtr -
Clad ooarsely during the day, he was only
to be distinguished IRON the other wotkmen by
his greater activity aud powers Of endurance.
Many English gentlemen have done The like Of
this, bnt commonly they have ended by becom.
ing altogether jus, that which they seemed IN
their working hours,-by becoming, IN short,