Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-05-27

campaigns. See him on the banks Of III
almost frozen river. while the tempest ana
the wintry nights vereclosing around him
he paused; he plunged and consummstet
on the plains Of Yorktown what his vas
mind had conceived on the shores Of Della
ware. Peace hath her Victories no less re.
nowned than war; and our manufactured
goods are so familiar to as and 30 gener-
ally difiused that We are apt to look upon
them rather as original gifts of nature than
as the products of human ingenuity, and
industry. Look at the military heroes of
tbe world. The fame Of an Alexander, Of
| 3 Hannibal, of q Cesar, Napoleon, ora
! Wellington will remain 'cribbed, cabined,
| and confined" In cobwebs and obscuritY
| upon the dusty shelves of your State libra
| riea, while those Of Franklio, House, Full
ton, States, Hoe, Evans, and hundreds Of
other mechanics will go down the stream
Of time in perfect blaze ofglory. Why isit
that the fame ofihe architect ofthe templeof
Lysocraies at Athens is OUTLYING that of
Demosthenes and of Cicero in this commu-
atty. Ii is because you have copy of the
haRdiersft Of the architect in the dome of
ycur Slate capitol. Thus, in practical
Ventors, by the instruments Of machinery
Of their invention, daily brought before
rs. What lady in your city would not ike
to be the wife of Burns, Hillman or john
son if they were not quite SO ugly. Yet |
these gentlemen we're all mechanics, and |
ike many Of us, had to sweat and toll as
they ascended the steps of wealth. / envy |
them not the products of their labor, their |
opulence, tkeir fair and elevated charsc-
ters, and proudly hold them up |
to my felIow-mechauics a. men
worthy Of Imitation. What fame /
has any merchant acquired? 1 reeollect
but one author. Rogers the poet) who was
a merchant, yet everybody here seems to
have mania for merchandising, and here
let me say that the only two years OF. my
life consider mispent were when | was
merchant. What was l doing if had
been successful. L would have added
nothing to the wealth of my city, for l
would have only gotten in my possession
hat which was before in the possession of
inother. And now, 10 conclusion, let me
'ay to our capitalists, if wealth is what you
IRE seeking, here is vast Eldorado ready
o pour its treasures into your Golfers. If
anne is what you are seeking, here too it is
o be found. Build up your factories and
he busy hum of their machinery will |
;hant hymns of praise for your enter
Prise while living, and, dying, you will be
amented by monument IN the shades Of ]
Mount Oliyet. The toiling masses will
Iisit the silent sepulchre Of the dead, and
hey will water with their tears the flow
'rs which blossom on the little green
mound over him who introduced species
II labor into this country which furnished
hem with labor, food, clothing and habi-
alton. If you have desire to ameliorate
he condition of the human family, and to
ssist Providence in raising up from the
bscure ranks of life persons TO yindicate
be equality of man, here too is an oppor-
unity. Little thought the Rev. DR.. Baird | /
few Sabbaths ago, while preaching dis G
curse on the dignity of labor, as his 1
urning eloquence was echoing down the {
Uses of his church in a passing allusion | )
} the powerful auxiliary he expected to :
ave for the Sunday school from our pro-
osed cotton factory. That the first Sab !
ath school in the United States was estab- y
shed by Samuel States, who started also '
ne of the pioneer cotton factories of this c
,untry. This school was the oiIshoot Is
cotton factory. And what appears to v
J not little singular, it was regarded Il
? some as an unhalloWed innovation. q
ne young man was at first deferred "
ON becoming teacher by bis father, a D
ergymaD, because he considered it pro- q
nation of the Sabbath. Thus it will be !,
en- on the score Of profit, fame, morality
Id benevolence that those ends can best n
, attained by judicious Investments in
and the prejudices against ;
ock companies are fully answered by the n
ference in this article to Lowell and New S
edford, where almost the entire business 4
carried on by companies. Il
Apologizing, Messrs. Editors, for con- Il
ming so much space, am very truly,
JNO J. MCCAIN | q;