Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-02-09
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We turn and behold another and superior race
Of men, standing sehast at the sudden transition
staring into each others face; enquiring "nen and
brethren, what shall ws do2" The same voice which
Adam heard after his fall reiterstes the same COM
mand---worki work. 1t Is heard Upon the
mountain tops and vcrbiratcs throughout the
deep valleys beneath, until lost In the azure dis
tauce beyond the reach of vision. Yes all must
work, mentally and physically, and thereby con-
tribute to the good Of the great body polite. The
dignity of human labor must regain its legitimate
position The saw, the loom, and the anvil must
be had In requisition. .n<Hb H' to ymo) - 2r;9I
The vast multitude Of non producers, basking in
the pathway Of life free Of toll ); and imaginary
dignitaries sporting empty titles awarded them by
conventional courtesey, or claimed BY virtue of
noble inheritance, must all take their legitimate
position in the ranks of their fellow -ritsens the
true aris,ocracy of nature. Parents mist teach
their children, bypccept and example, that their
little hands were made 10 Work.
Public schools must be established, by law, upon
an imptoved bnsis, and muuifcentfy endowed,
where the rich ana the poor may meet on one COM
mon pla form, ambitiously striving for the mastery
in in,ellectusl requirements, don't be alarmed
reader) social equality will always regulate itself
BY an unerring and irresistible law of nature as
water seeks its own level above its unduating
channel. Political demagogues, who, by their ca
jolery drive men into the ditch, there TO stick,
must be repudiated by the voice Of the people, and
learn that their hands were made to work. 20.
When all this reformation takes place, and it
may require generation to accomplish it. then
will be heard in Clarksville, and throughout our
beloved South, the busy hum Of successful indus.
uJ. The, triumph of domestic manufacture.
which maghifc, Mt temple will have been epgravep
with the motto, 'these hands rers made to work I"
Then shall We 4e a prosperous and happy peo-
pie, approximatng to the ful6llment of Berkleys
prophetic asr:ations,gl s,.1Rl s,. iHiah
westward, The Star Of Empire take its way.
The four first acts, already past ,'
A fifth, the drama Of the day,
Times noblest offspring is the last .,
The subjoined extract giving theyicws of one Of
naughty Englands prominent sons born to favor
and to fortune, is replete with sound common
sense on the subject under consideration. 'lI
Sir Charles Napier had his daughters taught how
70 cut and sew, how to cook and wash; all this,
besides the highest culture in music, in patining
and drawing, and in Bellies Leitres "For," said
he 'there might come revolutions, then they
should have resource in themselves for support
and if not, they should be independent of domes.
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