The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-04-13

For The Cecil Wing.
The Development Of Industry In the Young
Men, the Great Want Of the South.
By AaR1coLA.

We have so often noticed the want of
energy so prevalent with the young South
ernor, that we are fain to think that it is
one, in fact the prime cause of their degen-
eracy, and the general upsetting OF south
ern financial interests, the declining in the
price of lands, &c. We do not make these
remarks with any malicious motives, but
merely to impress on the minds OF your
readers the fact THAT INDUSTRIOUS YOUNG
MEN ARE THE HOPE AND FUTURE PROS
PERITY OF THE SOUTH.
The glory, the honor, and prosperity of
the South are not in the hands of old poll
ticians; they are in the keeping of the
young men who, as they prove industrious
or indolent, great shall be their reward or
terrible their punishment. What we want
in the the South at this hour of financial
peril, and most urgently, too, at this hour,
as it were, of her destiny, is a splendid
array of Woodworking, sober, stalwart and
enterprising youths. She has no need OF
drones, and the ranks of merely profess
sional men are already over-stocked.-
Young men who live in the country should
resist the allurements of clerkships in the
CITY, and learn what more noble duty is
before them where they are. They will be
happier, more healthy, more surely on
the road to wealth, by conquering the
globe, than by flittering their lives away
over protracted searches for a paradise in
dry goods, or an Ell Dorado in groce-
ries. Man must live by mind or muscle
True, there is another manner of killing
time,-the ignoble art of living upon the
toll of others. We will suppose there are
few who read this that are in this category,
and all anxious to labor, in some manner,
for the common veal. Granting this, let
all who have an unmistakable calling for
intellectual pursuits hearken to the great
voice, and fight their way through the
crowded array of DOCTORS lawyers, minis
tiers, teachers, &C., to pre-eminence. But
for those whose chief reliance is in their
glorious strength of body, let them compel
the soil to yield its fruits and the forest its
stores. Let them put their hand to the
pillow if agriculture allures them; let them
enter the machine shops if mechanics
allures them; with sturdy pride of indie
pendence grapple with the duty so plainly
set before them to do, and bless the South
with race of WORKERS which will be
worth all the political acrobats that ever
was or ever will be. Many of the best
Young men that ever tred the earth are
taking pattern from their northern breth-
rem and have already commenced the glor-
1OuS IdSh VI IcSCuluS duO up ohCii
States by personal labor. But many re-
main to whom the mere contact of an
implement of trade or agriculture is con-
sidered disgrace. Nay, the shame or
disgrace is not in labor; the shame is
rather with him who eats his idle bread in
scorn of honest toll. Men who distin-
guished themselves in army and navy, when
home were not ashamed to drive the team
a-field or to perform services that these
dainty boys imagine meniel. There is not
Sovereign or Prince in all Europe who is
not taught some useful trade; even King
William, of Prussia,-a name familiar to
every household since the Franco Prussian
wal, is practical machinist and judge of
the quality of iron. of mucn skill, as well
as partner of NJ. krupps, one of the most
extensive iron-workers in all Germany,
AYE, in the whole world;) and many one
who has sported with crown, has blessed
the day he learned some craft that had
become his loyal servitor when the means
of power left him.
In the face of these facts, are we to be
told that the Southern boys are too proud
to work? Are there any parents so imbe-
Gle as to uphold them in this false estimate
of their dignity and selfimportanee? We
hope not; but if there be such, woe to them
curses, instead of benedictions; they are
consumating ruin for the South that even
second war would be powerless to intlict.
The young men who now work are bound
to be the lords of the future, and the
Solons of the land. No matter how lowly,
industry will enoble them; for tits not the
occupation that disgraces the man, but the
man the occupation-and their progeny
will hold the seats Of domination. In the
same ratio the idle and timid will snl,
lower and lower as the years progress, and
the legendary traditions of their aristo-
cratic lineage (Which in order to keep up
appearances, they are becoming more and
more involved yearly, with less prospect of
extrication than at the beginning will not
save them from decrepitude and final ex-
tinction. The better lineage man inner
its, the more he is called on to attest the
fact that he is superior to the bones of his
ancestors, and worthy of their lineage and
gentle blood. There is no excuse for him
if he fails to outstrip those who have to
battle against adverse fate and social ostra-
cism. He ought to blush if the race is run
by the tortoise, while he is SO swift and
nimble hare.
Maryland has this day at work in her
fields and workshops, many a youngster
whom she will in the future, as in the past,
delight to bestow the choicest gifts upon,
much to the chagrin of those lineaged
aristOcrats who now scarcely notice them,
regarding them as inferior specimens OF
the genus homo, hardly worthy of common
courtesy.
We, in our personal observation, know
of several whose example is worthy OF
commentator by all who are interested in
statistical, political and social improve.
ment.
T0,on Point, April 1st, 1872.