Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-08-26
Sam Slick as a Farmer.

"Old Drivvle, down here to Maccan,
said to me one day, For gracious sake,
said he, Mr.. Slick, do tell me what 1
shall do with Johnny. His mother sets
great store by him, and thinks he's the
makin's of considerable smart man
he's CROWN up fast now, and | am
pretty well-to do in the world, and rea-
sonable forehanded, but I don't know
what the dogs to put him to. The law
yers are like spiders-they've eat up all
the flies. and guess they'll have to eat
each other soon, for there's more on,em
than causes now in every court. Inc
DOCTORS trade is poor one, too; they
don't get barely cash enough to pay for
their medicines; 1 never seen country
practitioner yet that made anything
worth speakin' of. Then, as for preach
in, why church and dessenters are pref
they live in the same pastur' with their
fiocks, and between 'em, its fed down
pretty close I tell you. What would
you advise me to do with him p WELL
says I, 'I'll you if you won't be nifty
with me- Nifty with you indeed
said he, L guess I'll be very much oblig-
ed to you; it amt every day one gets a
chance to consult with person of your
experience; I count it quite privilege
to have the opinion of such an under
standin' man as you be- We'll, says
I, take stick and give him real good
quiltin'; jist tantune him like blazes,
and set him to work. What does the
critter want? you have good farm for
him, let him go and arm his bread and
when he can raise that, let him get a
wife to make butter for it; and when he
has more Of both than he wants, let him
sell 'em, and lay up his money, and he
will soon have his bread buttered on
both sides. Put him to, eh! why, put
him to the pillow, the most natural, the
most happy, the most innocent, and the
most healthy employment in the world. ,
But said the old man land he did not
look over half pleased markets are SO
confounded dull, labor so high, and the
banks and great folks a-swallerin' all
up so, there don't seem much encourage
ment for farmers; its hard rubin now
adays, to live by the plow-he'u be a
hard workin' poor man all his days.
ooh y says I, if he wants to get rich by
farmin', he can do that too. Let him
sell his wheat, and eat his oatmeal and
rye; send his beef, mutton and poultry
to market, and eat his pork and pota-
toes make his own cloth. weave his
own linen, and keep out of shops, and
he'll soon grow rich; there are more
fortins got by savin' than by maxim, I
guess,9 a plaguy sight; he can't eat his
cake and have it too, that's fact. No,
make a farmer of hin, and you will
have the satisfaction of seeing him an
honest, an independent, and a respecta-
BILE member Of society; more honest
than traders, more Independent than
professional man, and more respectable
than either"
Whenever Tilden's name appears in
print before the eyes of a southern editor,
he rears up and bowls that Tilden is a
skulker; that he skulked in his luxuri-
Gus parlors while the men of the South
were ready to follow him to Washington
in track of blood. And yet if Sam
my should receive the nomination these
southern editors will support him.
Bait. Record.
Denying the above statement IN toto
the Richmond State commen is as fol.
lows:
"Never was a statement further from
the truth. The southern editor does not
rear up and call Mr.. Tilden skulker,
or anything else; nor was the South
anxious or ready to follow him in track
of blood to Washington and see him in.
SCalled, uau Ho Dut Salu Tile worn. 1ucIe
was good deal of such wild talk at the
North, we know, but the South took nc
stock in it and if there were any such
bloody intentions afloat, or had any such
bloody instructions been given, the
North would have had to fight it ought
among themselves. We took no stock
in violent or revolutionary proceedings
then, nor will we now,-preferring to
submit to almost any injustice rather
than resort to methods so desperate in
thevain hope of remedying them. In
a.word, we have learned philosophy by
experience, and in future will 'rather
bear those ills we have than fly to Others
that we know not Off"