The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1867-02-05
SHORT SERMON BY A LAYMAN


The Supreme Court of North Carolina, moved
and seduced by the instigation of duty, but with
a frightful disregard of consequences has jus
turned loose upon bankrupt community sixty
or seventy young men with license to practice
law. The only excuse offered for it being the
fact that the State thereby raised revenue OF
six or seven hundred dollars The Medical
Colleges, with even greater recklessness, have
returned to the frightened public battalion of
young Doctors armed with knife and purge to
"ply their vocations," and the Dental Colleges,
also have contributed squad for skirmish duty
who carry an arsenal of chloroform, forceps,
gouges and files. In the name of demoralized
population, solemnly protest against the whole
business, and defantly shake my fist at the
frightful array. earnestly pray for an injunc-
ton. say, stop it. Everybody will have to
hide from the Sheriff, and if man dares to
open his mouth be will be in peril of taking
castor oil, or having his teeth pulled.
Hua0 many mechanics have been turned out
since the war? How many young men are pre-
pairing for practical business How much true
bone and sinew have we got? North Carolina
will be manufacturing State in few years.
Who will be the engineers machinists, chemists,
&c, &c. ? 1t is a very respectable thing to be
a lawyer or doctor, if you are respectable law
yer or doctor-not otherwise-and l hope the
young gentlemen above alluded to may all turn
out to be such. But it is not, even when one
occupies respectable position in his profession,
comfortable thing to be without business; and
that will be the fate am sorry to say it) of at
least half those who begin now. Why, man
will settle almost any way, Cow a-days, before
be will 60 to lawyer; and he'll grunt long
time before he'll send for doctor; and in either
case, if he seeks the services of a professional
man, he expects to pay with promises-vhich
is very light diet for family. The same amount
of brains and energy, put into any other busi-
ness, will produce more money than in either Of
the liberal professions. This is sure. A man
of extraordinary capacity and untiring perse-
verance will succeed at anything, of course; but
mediocrity, which is the common measure, will
always find greater reward outside than inside
profession. The education of the youth of the
South, too, was irreparably injured by the war
AN obstacle to professional success almost in
surmountable in the present condition Of affairs.
The mechanic arts have been ignored by us.
Slavery rendered labor degrading, and "the
sweat of honest toil'' was only thought Of as
giving out an exceedingly disagreeable odor-
Necessity has forced labor upon us all, and is
gradually investing it with dignity; but, conceal
the fact as We may, our young men would rather
sell dry goods, the like, at just enough to pay
board, than to learn the best trade in the world
or work small farm 1t is their misfortune
the result of education-not their fault; bat it
is the duty of every man to aid in effecting
change in this respect.
If North Carolina builds an Agricultural Col
lege, there ought to be more students there than
at Chapel Hill Four years at the latter, or,
indeed, at any other academic institution, only
enable young man to learn better any profess
sion or business than he could otherwise do
One year at the former, if the college is properly
conducted, would make him practical farmer
and a respectable agricultural chemist. We
want produccrs-not Of the article proverbially
attributed to poor men-but of something to
eat, something to wear, and something to SELL
Our young men being poor, will, doubtless,
verify the proverb, but they are not generally
supplying the wants Just enumerated Cuffee
haunts them The remembrance of Cuffee, as
he was, is pleasant-the knowledge of Cuffee, as
he is, is disgusting to them. They ought to
forget that Cuffee ever was. They seem to be
waiting for something to turn up; but they
needn't wait; it won't. appeal to the shade
of the departed Micawber for the truth of the
assertion. Things never turn up when man is
waiting for them. I've watched 'em a long
time, and they invariably don't. There were at
least dozen fellowship, hearty fellows that
could bear the fatigue of waiting-who waited
patiently at honae four years, for Southern in-
dependence to turn up, and see how they were
- Wilmington Journal.
RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD-A
Strange Case-The last Wythevlle (Va } Dis
patch says We are informed that MIR Peter