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Vol. VI.] CHARLOTTETOWN, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1843. i[No. 337.

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5S bak tw ae Pisin: Ay ps “ i parfesty perks iat men who pretend to be, or who really are, ashamed; men | yet does not starve; he asa his significance still; he is &

: . , iscipline oftrade. For what is rade? It is who would sacrifice their order for the smile of some standing proof that somebody has worked.

_Moral Views of Commerce and Society. Intwelve Dis- | the constant adjustment of the claims of different. parties, titled patron whiabe ist ahh satiate Karr adai¥ee *} “Nay pate? let us say, pret to the twvorker—to the

F asf — Rev. Orville Dewey. Philadelpina: fete oni a being mn at the nt as This competition of ti J P 5° "+! teiler—to him who produces, and ‘not alone consumes—to
arey and Lea, |vights and interests might invade the solitary study, or ; «Ti i ‘him who puts forth his hand to add to the treasure-heap of

: 3 s ‘EB the separate tasks of the workshop, or the labours of the si- | F His ancient but ignoble blood humat forts d not al tot are
A Mahommedan legend describes the perplexities of ‘tent field, once a day; but it Poa jeddl the pclae abd Hxs run thrétigh scoundrels ever since the flood.” nan comforts, and not alone to take away! Honour to

ini hes woee & : ‘
san angel, who had obtained permission to assume a ha- | trader eontinually, Do you say that it presses too hard?) Weshould be tempted to speak of such men with scorn Papin Peat een Hee a
eman form, and travel through all the regions of the earth, Then, f reply, inuist the sense of rectitude be made the stron- and daathing, Were we not forced to weep over the moral | hind pillows of ease! Honour to the strong musele and the
for the purpose of ascertaining the real condition of man. #e! 10 ‘ueet the trial. Every plea of this nature ix an argu- prostration which has led men to speak of their own tnanly nerve, and the resolute and brave heart! Honour to
ekind. Countless anomalies puzzled him at every step; iment for strenuons moral effort, Shall Lhe told that the sphere as habitually given over to low aims and pursuits. the sweaty brow and to the toiling brain!” Honour tothe
but there was none so perfectly inexplicable as the fact, a Bt bt! aw beteatam ai Age mine. £ that the Would that they could see what true dignity encircles the Arges grt penis. ees, ere: pelea |
hat men, vationally aud collectively, boasted of exten- pul Finite Ws comer, oftentines not wider a SORUNG: i cht man of business We should like to see every Rah wrornnths tesk arte eateee influstey, 90 Neaoaie! pie
’ yo collectively, baa sten- pule, bat under a general principle, whose very generality is ile. oe. uae! Bg RNY ery} ing and weariness—to teaching wisdam and learn
«ded commerce, and individaally were ashamed of being peritoas to the conscience? It is indeed. Here, perhaps, (@Ebusiness assert for himself the impregnable posi-|—jo the rom ai.core that_ presides over city aod to

ssupposed to have anything to do w ith at. He saw a clus, dies the great peril of lusiness, in the generality of the role. tier Which aur author has taken ia his name. winhy-fanded fahour that toils in the workshops and fields,
tof men whose imtelligence, industry and integrity pros For conscience does net in most eases definitely say, ‘thou! “3 attiere isno-heing in the world-for whom 1 feel a beneath its sacred and guardian sway. ;

ceured wealth for themselves, comfort for their fimilies, stew meticing hleg, ae thou shalt do that. It nays always, higher snoral respect aud-nduniration, thas a upright)” Ifthe League had perforined no other service to.the
and influence for their nation ¢ men engaged ina pur- (‘thou s malt do right” but what that is, is net always clear, "an of business: no, uot tor the philanthropist, the mis-| .,, ; h hi h
vane ; gag I | pic’ ehoee Ga EDRE © ih aise | iio aarni sionalior the dabhtens:-Afeak shat } coutd: ine ily community than teaching the merchants and tnanufac+
-suit which had been the-source of everything that reall : wt 6 Wan Nin Tene CMe ee a against S!OnAnys eee eel that 1 could more-eusty Ue ®)urers that th i d f whi t . §
sa oan . J s Sagat | no definite remonstrance of conscience, and that he may he, martye than a man of that lofty moral Uprightuess. And Ts appara ™ go tgs Bebitiy ce Ba: hich there aye many
-adorns end dignifies humanity ; and ‘he saw, with as-'in the common aceeptation, an honest man; and vet that he me say yet more distinetly, that it is not for the generous noble spirits ready to avow their membership, it, would
tonishment, that these men, instead of challenging res- | may he a selfish, exacting and oppressive tan—2v man who man that 1 feel this kind of respect —that seems to mea low-| Have well earned the gratitude which a future genera-
spect for their honorable exertions, sliruank from confes- | can Never recognise the rights and interests of others—who er quality, a mere impulse, compared with the lofty virtue [| tion will assuredly bestow upon. its exertions. It has
‘sing that they belonged to a class which produced. im- |can never see anything but on the side that is favourable to speak of fis not-for the mat who distribntes exteusive|improved the social position of every mercliant, and
“provement to the co:nmunity. They seemed to belivve tute Ladin o ee hs ret siragieour pigs oma ee Pa rte me agian trader, and manufacturer, and operative, not merely
-% es oe hears a: ays and loudly saying, O! this is right, and * tia > al ver) HIT spei . to disparage it-— s re} ne "i suk , Retre
ee wate diegcnces because sree inte — was jean’t be’—a man, in fine, who, although he seldom, perhaps Were wiore of it; and yet it may all consist with w want of prime’ Hi ghee a9 pti |: he, circurt cA
ey ne ts poh Bigs: in sane ae develop- never, offends against any assignable or definite precept of the true, lofty, unbending uprightness, “That is vot the man pe ae. diary WAR eee are its ranks bad
‘mentof national resources, aud their imtegrity recognised | conscience, has swerved altogether from all uprightness and then of. whom [speak ; but it is he who stands, ansidst all received: with his dignity a patent of nobility, issued by
sto the utmost ends of the earth. He saw men of whom | generosity. What then ists he done? A work, J answer, | the swaying interests and perilous exigencies of trade, firm, | hisown svul, attested by his own reason, and sanctioned
the world ought to be proud, who were thoroughly | Of the most ennobling character. A mat nist do more | Calin, disinterested, and upright. It is the man who ean by his oa conscience. ‘* My mind: to me a kingdom
-ashamed of themselves—who refused ** to stand by their | fan to attain to punetilious honesty in his actions; he must | See another man’s interests just as clearly as his own. It is} 3” was the boast of the old poet; and it is traly the boast
order,” though well aware that to their order alone so- train his whole soul, his judgment. his sentimeuts and af-| the man whose mind his own advantage does vot blind or of every man who thinks tor himself, and does not dele-

: 5 As Seale fections, to uprightnes, candour, and good will. cloud for an instant; who could sit a judge upon a question | ivi i

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-ciety stands indebted for every advance that civilization | «tn fine, F look tipon business as one vast scene of moral | betwe@n himself and his neighbour just as safely as the pu- gate that privilege to other people Por the first time
Britain has seen a great association of its wealth, its,in»

has made since the days of the deluge. action. ©The thousand wheels of commerce? with all their | Test niagistrate upon the bench of justice. Ah! how much . ; hea Aue
There was a-species of shame that puzzled the hea | swift and complicated revolutions, f regard as an immense richer than ermine, how far nobler than the train of magis- telligened, and its working DOWAT based on the principle
venly- visitor, bat there was’a form of pride which com- moral machinery. Meanness and cunning may lurk amidst | terial authority, how more awful thay the guarded bench of of independent action, and this independent action isan
gpletéd this perplexity. Ie had believed, before his are | it but it was not designed for that degradation. That must | Majesty, is that simple, magnanimous, and mayestic truth! | absolute realizing of the royalty of soul of which the poet
‘rival on earth, that cut-throats, robbers ye slunderers be a noble scene of action where conscience is felt to bea Yes, itis the man who is true—true to himself, to his neigh- dreamed.
aust be BE Pa sulty exatene “ byt} - fell | ; h law. And it is felt to be the law of business; its very vio- hour, and to his God—true to the right—true to his consci-| — « Jt js, doubtless, a very extraordinary state of things. [ts
é hae ete 'y 2X on eX iy reir fe igi ; no lations prove itsuch, It is the enthroned sovereign of the enceand who feels that the slightest suggestion of that) distinctive feature is a grand popular movement, slowly pro-
od dreamed t ws mortals could ever com mane to deify plans disobedience, disloyalty, give attestation to it. Nothing consejence 1s ure to him than the chance of acquiring a pagating itselt through all civilised nations—a revolution of
‘as heroes those by whom they were insulted, injured, and | ix too boly to connect with it.” There is a temple in one of | hundred estates. : : ideas, winich is elevating the mass‘of mankind to importance
‘trampled down ; but to his inexpressible astonishment, the cities of Europe through which is the very passage to It aJmost makes a man ashamed of siaring a common | and power; and, in fact, to the eventual government of the
he learned that destruction was deemed a glory, and pro the market-place, and those whio pass there offen rest their | uature with his fellows. when he finds a public opinion | world. - Itvis a revolution which gees alike beyond all former
‘duction a disgrace, —that the management af.the.chemi= burthens to turn aside and kneel at the altar of prayer. So in the world derogatory to labour; as if the very coustitn- examples in history, and principles in philosophy. Thre
cal agencies by which men were enimedbemnlietinns: (ere it meet that all men should enter npon their daily busi- | tien of nature—as if the very physical and mental pow- education of this age—that- inags-of sentiment and maxims

‘ 5 ; tiess, The temple of manimon should be the temple of God. : : which it has received from former ages—does not prepare it

3 F ; y ers waich the gre: , has bestowed npon our race ; ba Dat “

espa rewarded by the ‘cheats ¥ moltitudes. titles The gates of trade should be as the entrance to the sanc- did @ ah h Bagh neaent hed f Provid at that pa to understand itself Though the noblest genius and philo-
rom Government, and pensions from Parliament; while |tnary of conscience. ‘There is an eye of witnessing avd wit show it. to be the design of Froviceuc Y\ sophy of former tines have been distinguished by their ge-

the development of agencies which gave support to men | searching scrutiny fixed upon every one of its doings. The | man-should work either with his hand or his head nerous recoguition of the claims of humanity; yet they have
in thonsands was virulently opposed by ignorant mobs, | presence of that all-seeing One, not confined, as some ima- “ Yes, such is man’s task, and such is the world he is seldou descended to work out the great problem of human
-superciliousty disregarded by the Geverument, and con- gine, to the silent Church or the solitary grove—the presence placed in. The world of matter is shapeless and voi to all | rights. ‘They have shown more admiration of human nature
temptuously sneered at by the Parliament. The angel of God, Pthink it not too solemn to say, is in every counting- man’s purposes till he lays upon it the creative hand of Ja- than confidence 1m it Their speculations, indeed, have pro-
5°") yoom and wareliouse af yonder mart, and ought to make it) bour, And so also is the world of mind, Jt isas true In ceeded upon grounds widely different froni the present state
holy ground.” mind as it is inanatter, that the materials only are given us, jof frets, - When Aristotle discoursed in such discouraging
Commerce has been, under the guidance of Provi- Absolute truth, ready made, no more presents itself'to us in | te¥ms on the popular tendencies, he discoursed concerning a
: ad t dence, the erand civilizer of nations, or eather, it alone one department, than finished models of mechanism, ready | people-tbat could not read; that had no newspapers ; that
example of despising themselves, aad had thus supplied bint ll a: diti Pahi cal ‘hi ny made, do in the other. Original principles there doubtless | were ignorant and brutal; compared with our educated and
sufficient justitication for the coutempt.with which they-| Sanne ane a4 Log ice fends so ingens eh hy 19 atajsbeoth 3 but the resulfphilosophy, that is to, say—in | Christian cou tities. When Plato reasoned of his ideab
were regarded by otbers. : ae ee arts he as Pipidly advanced: and withont-wh'éh it Ne-}the one case is ae dar te seek, asartand ihechanism ure i (rep revered” “pare hypothesis; his work. prre
: + ver has made, and never cau, make, progress. The | the other. She philosophy of modern politics lias not been
spirit of naval and commercial énterprise could alone “Such, [repeat, isthe world, and such is man. The pasttimes; it cannot be written now j that work,
counterpoise that spirit of barbarism which poets and nets does we and vache n caecters ir 80 ser 7m on ae Leer ee a wohiatele oll a
tote, hav i ; . . we Lis improvement is coneerned, but elements to »e wretigh rete 4 3
40 the world, are to be found among the merchants and 1 apie sian dignified mere ADE ay chivalry, Put hy bin to certain purposes, H he stood on earth passively ielligent, Christian freedom may develop results that are out
mauufacturers themselves. ‘There is no earthly use in which, st reality, means,ngthiig more shar and unconsciously, imbibing the dew and sap, aid spreading of the range of our present contemplation. But this, 1 think,
denying or concealing that traders invoke contempt on «“ That those should take who have the power, his arms to the fight and air, he would be but a tree, if he | is evident, that when the future philosopher and historjogra~
py eahn ws . : And those should keep Who can.” grew up expable neither of purpose vor of improvement, | pher rises that shall analyze and portray the stupendous re-
trade, that manufacturers implore for disgrace upon their |. : : BP ith eat NG tak: b f i | Volution-that’ is iow passing in the ciei'ined world, ima alt
order, and that merchants pray for a brand of shame to Phis is the good old rule, the simple plan’? of govern. | Wit) no guidance but instinet, and 9S carey mt wears 7 k af br it a} r eng, dont in. Kowa cae
he mamped upon commerce. So far as they are raid | ment which the advocates of oligarchy and monopoly eeenenree locanotion, he wane se but an aviinal, ved ptm bs a revolution having no precedent 1 | isiary, None
. efi : mere than thist he isa man; he is made to improves) Was ever so universal, so profound, or so fearful ; all former
widaally concerned, they aré most provably right: no he is made, therefore, tothink, to act, to work. Labour is| revolutions have been locul, occasional, and sanguinary,
man was ever ashamed of his order, save the man of( , : his great function, his peculiar distinction, bis privilege. | former days, when power bas been wrested from its despotic
~ whom his order had very ample reasou to each amicil divided communities, according to the Eastern pour hts Can he not think so? Can henot see, that from being an | possessor, It has been done only by a violent and bloody
in its turn. unto ** kites and ae. “ we the eaten. , ra reat 3 beh prs aber and sleep, to en a ar perapiiow’ autre 7 poh lee ei iseroay Ps Ae ap Ra ti ay
: ‘ ; ,.{avas commerce alone t at broke the despotism of the | put forth the hac of ingenuity, and to. pour his own » from the i ofthe people, a 3 stent! throne
ie? ire oe Bis cep he sable pe cdcsihe a i 8 single tyrant, who chastised his subjects il h whips, and thought into the worlds of nature, fashioning them into forms] and princedoms, and heirarchies, their unjust prerogatives 5
sent feelings of ntish merchants and manufacturers: s : of grace and fabrics of convenience, and converting them |and, at the same time, us if hy some wonder-working magic,
there are now in that body meu resolved “ to stand by to parposes of improvement aud happiness—can he not see, | is making their incumbents helpless to resist, and even wil-
| their order,’? men who .know the social imporiance, the : : [repeat, that this is the greatest possible step in privilege ? | ling to obey. Potentates are learning a new lesson, aud so
_moral worth, the national value, and the political weight every kind, but most of all the tyranny of class ascen-| Labour, E say, is man’s great function. The earth and the}are the people too. Before, revolutions have been violent
| _of the order to which they belong. It is to Lehtwe'dd: dancy, has been ever opposed to the progress of com: | atmosphere are his laboratory. With spade and plough, and bloody, frou the very wenkness of those who a F
; dress ourselves; we invite them 14 examine the claims inerce. ‘ Well might the aristocracy of Sparta,” say= with mining shafts aud furnaces and forges, with fire and | ried them on, from the very uncertainty whether they shou
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could not discover why this was; but how it was, re-
4qnired no laboured investigation to discover, Men o
trade aud commerce, ashamed of their order, had set the

It is a thankless task to set forth the moral dignity of
‘commerce and manufactures; those who least desire the
weal elevation of their social position tobe demonstrated

have advocated in all ages; which has enriched tiled
robbers at the expense of plundered slaves, and which

the still more cruel despotism of oligarchy which chas-
tised its subjects with scorpions, Hence tyranny ol

. ; 8 re a the lamented De. Arnold, ‘dread the introduction of steam—atidst the noise and whirl of swtft and bright ma succeed, Now, the people are reposing in calu securit
’ “ir class ass of their position . 3 : x ie ip , . m : : ; A

of their class, and to assert the dignity aii I i iy {foreign manners, and complain that intercourse with {Chinery, aud abroad in the silent fields beneath the roofing | upon their undoubted strength. sorsipt has ute ht i
‘Our purpose is to show them the reasons why they shoul sky, man was made to be ever working, ever experimenting. moderate. Let no one mistake their moderation for apathy,
-be proud of commerce, aud why they should glory in And while he, aud all his dwellings of care and toil, are | Or their quiteness for defeat; for they are culin only in pro-

foreigners would corrupt their citizens, and seduce them ,
honourable industry. We call upon them to examine |! forsake the institutions of their fathers. Injustice aud | jorne onward with the circling skies, and the shows of hea- portion as they are determined and sure,

: the nature of business, and inquire whether it does not ignorance must fail, if the light he fairly let im "pon | ven are around him, and their infinite depths image and in- “Such is, ner ROY the ile pt en ont det
) ‘afford she: bese training for what all genuine HeVivitn lant them; evil can only be fully enjoyed by those who have vite his thought, still, in all the worlds of philosophy, in the hoitent we may regard . good or the ev ne - it.

i A : ~ veg Pee ‘then Sie ide tlie proper | reeer taste good. The sea deserves to be hated by the | universe of intellect, man must he a worker. He is nothing, To me, confess, it is far ‘ 1e on momentous ant a7 ime
call true philosophy concur in f g ee | old aristocracies, inasmuch as it has been the mightiest he can he nothing, he can achieve nothing, fulfil, nothing, |era in the history of the world. The introduction of Chris-

“purpose and object of lite.

without working. Not only cau he gain no lofty improve- | tianity.and the discovery of printing—the two greatest events
‘ “ Life, say the expounders of every creed, is a probation.

ment without this ; but without it, he eau gain no tolerable) on record—are, in fact, now producing, for the first time, on
The circumstances in which we are placed; the events, the : f happiness. So that be who gives himself up to utter indo- the broad theatre of national fortunes, the very results which
scenes of our mortal lot; the bright visions that cheer us, the |!and presents one cold, blank, lifeless surface of snow, |Jence, finds it too hard for him; and is obliged, in self-de- | we are witnessing. They have given birth, if not to the free
dark clouds that overshadow us—all these are not an idle | how refreshing it ts to the spirits to walk upon the shore | fence, unless he he an idiot, to do something. ‘The miser- principles of modern times, at lenst to their free action:

instrument in the civilization of mankind. Iv the depth
of winter, when the sky is covered with clouds, and the

) show, nor do they exist for themselves alone, nor becatse and to enjoy the eternal freshness and. liveliness of the lable victims of idleness and ennui, driven at last trom their | Like the sun and the moon in heaven, they have penetrated
they must exist by the fiat of some blind chance; but they |ocean! Even so, in the deepest winter of the haman | chosen resort, are compelled to work, to do something; yes, | LY their influence the great deep of poet. The ve pro-

a) - ; ¢ : - . re Airy . , a
2 ave a purpose, and that purpose is expressed in the word race, when the earth was but one chilling mass of inac-!t employ their wretebed and worthless lives in—* killing | duced may well awaken that solemn and even religious

i if i vy cousidered ¢ were 6° oe . ime.” “ 4 ur their prey. es,/emotion in the mind of which a late distinguished -writer
_probation. . Now, if anything deserves to be considered as tivity, life was stirring in the waters, . ‘There began that time. Phey must hunt down the hours as | prey. | Yes, ; g

P iti i if i i ; tracti si i What is now presented to the attention of the
7 “a part of that probation, it is business. Life, say the wise,} . : : sets : time,—that mere abstraction—that sinks light as the air upon has spoken, t pr } I
‘aa school. In this school there. are lessons—toil is a les- spirit, whose genial influence has now reached to the jthe eyelids of the busy and the weary, to the idle is an enemy | world is’ not, as formerly, kingdoms convuleed, refit nat
& son; trial isa lesson; and business, too, isalesson, But land, has broken the chains of winter, and covered the | clothed with gigantic armour ; and they must kill it, or them} wreeked upon the shore, but that ‘tide in the affuirs of men,
the end of a lesson is, that something be learned; and the face ofthe earth with beauty. selves die. ‘They cannot live in mere idievess; aud all the dif- | that slow rising and gradual swelling of the whole ocean of

i cend of business is, that truth, rectitude, virtue, be learned.| How few historians have cared to record the multitn-| ference betweén them and others is, that they employ their society, whitl isto béur everything upon its bosom.” :
This is the ultimate design proposed by Heaven, and it isa dinons blessings for which the world is indebted to com | activity to ne useful end. They find, indeed, that the hard- We have written of those who are renegades to their
» flesign which every wise man, engaged in that calling, Will} merce. The ‘cradle of Grecian poetry and philosophy at in the world is to do nothing * ‘ : “a order more in sorrow than in anger; for we feel deeply
J i propose to. himself. Ivis no extravagance, therefore, 0% ne was in the commercial cities er Tonia © merchants were n the name of common sense, 10 { + nae — ys that the mercantile community of England has too'long

simple assertion of a truth, to say to a man vo SNgREOG A The patrons for whom Thales examined the phases of the | @4800- justice and humanity, we not only protes against | sown itself insensible of the great moral responsibility

to say emphatically, ‘You have an_end to gain besond suc- celeaiial luminaries, and Homer poured forth his immor- the stigma which prejudice, ignorance, and corrupt intér-| whieh the cireamstances of its position involves; aud the
‘sees, and that is, the moral rectitude of your own mind. 2 , est have affixed upon honorable industry, but we fur- consequence has-been, that its political influence has

oe rary : Z isi ne lish | tal songs; it was for commercial Athens that Aischylus ’
} That business is so exquisilely adapted to accompls songs ; rei j nase port :
sthat. purpose, fa another nace with me to prove that} created the drama, that Pericles founded the Parthenon, ther demand that nothing else should be respected been deast when its elements of political strength were

_-such is the intention of its Ordainer, was its design. lcan|and that Socrates raised morals to the dignity of a sci- What is there glorious in the world that is not the pro g

‘ ; : E i ¢ f ind? What is
eae : : dered otherwise $ duct of labour, either of the body or of the mind? What : ———
ite “conceive that things might have been orderec ‘Jence. But these are among the least of the triumphs af history but its record? What are the treasures of genius sais

“that human beings might have heen foremntiian ledutrnenty! commerce :-— fa and art but its work? What are cultivated fields butits toil?| "Tasaseqrne ‘Preper.—Some ideas have occurred to me
~not for-traffic. J can conceive man - wild by solitary In- | “ Liberty has always followed its steps; and with liberty, The busy marts, the rising cities, the enriched empires of the }on the subject of signing the pledge, that 1 do not recollect
fe. consinneod, oa each jneiriaiel 5 om tiga see tad scietice and religion have gradually advanced and improved, | world, what are they but the great treasure-houses of labour ? | ever to have heard bronched at any of our Temperance moet-
rane mretinees Seanesiie: carl 1 han is ever aud Hever without it. All those kingdoms of Central Asia, The pyramids of Egypt, the castles and towers and tenyples|ings, They are in answer to the stale and often repeated
=a vesture,. wolier, richer, and more grnestal ; ‘t ve been {and of Europe too, which commerce has never penetrated, of Europe, the buried cities of Mexico, what are they but | objections urged against taking the pledge,—that a man 16
; Lanecggoaae van ao ee ee prea ee: have | have been, and are, despotisms. With. its earliest birth on tracks, all round the world, of the mighty footsteps of labour ?| so doing, signs away his fiberty. Now, though I do not
5 Borne ete irate: “ee ee ae sibirsld of the | the Mediterranean shore, freedom was horn, Phenicia, the Autiquity had not been wathout it, Without it, there were| mean to admit that an individual, in taking the temperance
aes ae a — ne 4 a F ieee: merchants of whose cities, Tyre and Sidon, were accounted jo memory of the pasts without it, there were no hopes for | pledge, parts with vom sinallest fraction of his nataral liberty,
ae eas nat arrayed ikke sic yo ra # “er might nat princes; the Hebrew commonwealth, whieh carried on a the future. ‘ ‘ yet, for the ort - paar ag we will sujpose that he does.
& ne oats held only the-sweet: \ ars h ri fellow, | trade through those parts ; the Grecian, Carthagenian and | « Let then labour, the world’s great ordinance, take its pro- —What then? lt eons 1e chief characteristic of a civilized
a4 y et.counsel of society with 8 | Roman states, were not ouly the freest, hut they were the | per plice in the world, Let idleness, too, have the meed| community, and in fact, the very means by whieh man
_ find never have been called to engage with him in the strife only freestates of antiquity. In the middle ages, comnierce that itdeserves. Honour, I say, be paid wherever it is due. | emerges from savage into civilized life, that exch individual
of business. . Then, too, would he have been saved from - broke down in Kurepe the feudal system raising up in the Honour, if you please, to unchallenged indolence—for that | gives up a small portion of his natural liberty for the good
the dangers and vices of human.traffic 5 but then, ton, would Hanse ‘Towns, throughout Germany, Sweden and Norway, which all the world admires ‘hath no doubt some ground for | of the whole community. It is by this means that we are
«the lofty virtues cultivated in this.sphere of life never have hody of men who were able to cope with barons and kings, jr; honour, then, to undisturbed, unehallenged indolence—| enabled to have wholesome laws and regulations, and officers
had an existence, For business, U repeat, is admirably adap ate at froin them their free charters aud rightful pri- for it reposes on treasures that labour some time gained and |to enforce them, It is by this means that the fee simple to
ted to form such virtues, Jt is inpt, I know it is said, to cor- il » ‘gathered. It is the effizy ofa man, upon a splendid minuso- | real estate is obtained, for it is the opinion of the best legal
anen; -but the truth is, it corrupts ony those who are | Mieges scelelsnis -niminte ail thiede undeniable claims Jeum—somebody built that mausoleum—somebody put that] commentators, that a man has no natural right to designate

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