Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1867-07-17
HYDE PARK VERMONT WEDNESDAY, JULY II 1861

of pummeling they could give or take.
In. theory, at least, that worse than
barbarous custom of selling hu nan bodies
and souls by weight and and measure. is
abolished in our county by the organic
law of the land, and yet. the chain is not
buried, the slave pen is not demolished,
and the spirit of making merchandise Of
the bodies Of tien is still rampstt in the
land.
Nothing but thorough education of
the national mind, and consequent ele-
vation of the national heart, can create
and maintain safe guard or reliable
protection about these divine organisms.
Over the golden altar of the goddess
Diana, in the far famed temple at Ephcsus,
the polished Geek had Inscribed the loft
lest scutimen. Of his philosophy "geno.
the Sc, "know thysclf"; and Pope,
catching the divine inspiration of the pre-.
cept. has couchcd it in English verse
Know thy self; presume not God to scan.
The proper study oil mankind, i. man.
A text book on whose inspiring page
glows divinCst cloquence, aud beams i'm.
mortal learning. but alas like that other
inspired volume studied too often with
skeptic ken and heart. The king studies
it that he may balance the throne of his
power on the withcrel aud bending forms
of fortified millions; the soldier masters
its lcssous that be may know how to tap
the great artery of humanity, and from
its crimsoned orifce, quatf draughts of
sanguinary fame. ............
The wine merchant derives a course of
commercial instruction from its pages.
that, out of over wrought bone. and over
strained muscle, he may swell net profits.
and gain wealth in the premature decrep.
itudc of the bruised and brawny body of
the toll doomed human.
fHey seek to coerce the unwilling hom,
age and degradation of the spirit by the
appliances of physical force. They better
the skull and bruise the body, to extend
their sway inward. while We work from
the brain aud heart, outward and up
ward through the body. and in our secure
advantage we labor, securely, strongly.
defantly aud successfully, until, at last
we shall, either conquer or convert the
king, sheathe or shatter the soldier S
sword and seize the wine merchants s
wealth and triumphantly bear it onward
in channels Of reform, blessing mankind
in its activity, aud comforting charities by
lis use. Having pushed these selfish and
self made foes to his body, out Of his path,
man next encounters the eternal law of
want, natural dependence. that binds him
with bonds as dear and strong as life it.
self, to the friendly bosom of his mother
earth.
AS that penurious Hooker, of ignobfc.
Revolutionary fame, from whom the he.
roes of that day had, in his absence, bor-
rowed cattle, ran through their camp cry.
ing, "bcef. beef, beef" 80 we, from our
cradles to our biers, rush through the
tents of the countless soldiers of life, re-
echoing the worlds great, agonizing cry,
bread, bread, give us bread
These forms must be clothed, sheltered.
and fed as condition precedent to every
other consideration. AS the new born
babe instinctively nestles in its mothers
bosom for that bread ordained of God to
foster its little life, 50 the natural man.
on grander scale, instinctivcly turns to
the fruitful lap of nature, and there finds
the most refining and elevatihg employ.
ment for his bone and snew. in the most
honorable and glorious work Of proluc-
tion.
The problem that presses hard for his
solution, is; How shall |, naturally as
dependent as the oyster or the rose, gain
for myselfth largest independence Of this
inexorable law of want? If rebel--say
| will not be fed, sheltered, nor clothed,
am traitor TO nature. and she will pur-
sue my treason with speedy death. She
knows no Greeley to bail her traitors.
Manifcstly, then, must, once for all con-
cede my allegiance to this claim of phys
ical want, aud while yielding constant
obedience to the law, must steadily aud
intclligently secure such means as will
put me above and beyond the reach Of
this unyielding demand. III desire to
be Independent for a moment, must sur.
round myself with the natural means to
comply with the momentary claims of the
monster, want. These means are popular
ly styled, money. cattle, lands, property.
We daily admit this truth, when VIC say
10 common parlancc, that this or that
neighbor. is "independent."
First, then, in securing these conditions
precedent to physical Independence. we
must solcmuly swear by the shades of our
own Revolutionary fathers, that VIC will