The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1865-11-25
A Lesson to be Learned.

| THE Columbia Is. CO. Phenin, edited by the
Simms reads the following lesson to the people
| of the South Who will despair of the repub-
lie when ssch sentiments are promulgated by a
South Carolina press The lesson may we'll be
Needed everywhere, and is not uncaled for even
in the Northern States.
E How events teach the successive generations,
who yet refuse to learn How the ancient laws
of God reassert their utility and necessity after
/ thousand years of false and frivolous convention
"I'hou shalt earn thy bread az the sweat Of thy
6row, " is the decree. The decree delirered as a
penalty, duly obeyed. becomes the secret of aanu-
n,era6le permanent blessings. Neglected, denied,
repudiated, the law finally asserts ITSELF a@d
compels respect from the offender. But Il Jay
ago, worthy citizen said to us "What a cruel
I thing it is that was not trained to some good
hahdicraft that | was not educated or taught
as carpenter, bricklayer, or blacksmith
should not now be destitute. | should have my
secret OF employment and existence at my fingers
| ends, and should not now be looking around me,
in vain, seeking what to do" Exactly The
great effort of mankind, in its blindness, is to
escape labor-to escape the law Men rush into
the professions, or become accountants, book
keepers clerks, collectors, agents, factors, until
the country s covered at this moment with
swarms seeking easy work, rs they fancy, or
work which shall not soil the fingers-al of
whom are in each others way. II was suffi-
lcienty evil feature in this practice thar, in the
case of the professions two out of every three
were out Of their proper places, and intruders into
the places of better men. The professions are
properly the fountains OF authority aud sacred
opinion. They are guardians of society. Let
them be inferior and incompetent and they de-
grade the professions and deprive society of its
best securities. The evil consequences follow in
evitably in general misrule and ruin. We owe
no small portion of the evils which now find us
PROSTATE to the incompetence and worthlessness
OF professional men to the wretchedness of leg
islation in wretched hands TO the terrible dis
proportion ofsthese classes to the physical labo.
rers in the community. And the just Judgment
OF God avenges upon society this usnrpation of
position by thefworihless, and this o9ercrowd-
ing OF certain occupations to the neglect of 9TH
ers, which, in the exigencies of society. as at
present, become the only useful AT this mo-
ment, the vast numbers of persons bred up as
book keepers, accountants clerks, ETC., TO say
nothing OF professional men seeking employment
in the cities, seeking agencies of business where
there can be no Misunderstanding upon hungry
benches, looking right and left for the means Of
food-presents the spectacle of a very army fam
fishing in the country which they have plunderel
W. seAA AA"pPy NlSASccc, W IlU
has an occupation at bis fingers ends--who can
build house of brick or wood, make a coat a
pair OF boots, box, .cask, horse shoe, or do
any work for which the necessities of society
compel continual demand Let parents take
warning from this condition of things Let
them put their sons to honest trades, which In- |
yolve labor and the acquisition of some useful |
craft. Let them abandon the foolish vanities |
which made them strive to keep them from hard |
labor If the boy iso of superior talents, en-
dowed for profession by The Deity, the habit OF |
work and painstaking will not hurt him for the /
professions will be q help-since labor is one
essential element OF all educational training
Let him be put at fourteen to trade for FIVE or |
seven years, aud sheAsili not be found at loss |
forthe means oflife, whatever the convulsions of
society. And let the thousands who 20 about
asking where to 60, and what to do, go to the
farmers and take up the plow and, stripping /
cheerfully to their tasks, they will discover thai
their banks of potatoes, corn and peas are banks
Of unfailing resources, which never delude with
promises never to be paid ia the hourof trouble.