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perpetuat ^ the civil institutions of his country, than all the 

 noisy and babbling politicians of the day. He illustrates by his 

 every day's service and subsistence, by his careful tillage and 

 the dependent products of the land, and by his contributions to 

 the aggregate wealth and independence of his country from 

 year to year, the happy adaption of our civil policy, to promote 

 the best interests of society ; and he does well his duty, and acts 

 well his part as a citizen, while at the same time, he reaps the 

 rich rewards of his labor and enterprise in the most happy, in- 

 dependent and pleasing pursuit in life. 



There are doubtless many in this country, who would ape and 

 mimic the habits and customs, and unbibe the prejudices of the 

 so called higher classes in Europe, and who, themselves, are the 

 effeminate and degraded sons of lusty farmers, who regard agri- 

 culture as low and menial, and only fit to be pursued by those 

 of small mental capacity, and of limited intelligence. These 

 are the fops and dandies of society, some of them the inheritors 

 _ of wealth, accumulated by the painful and patient toil of some 

 industrious and prudent ancestor ; others, idle and dissolute, 

 and penniless, are only tolerated as signs and show boards, or 

 strolling images on which the tailor and shopkeeper hang their 

 latest styles and fashions, to induce those who have money to 

 come and purchase. These lily-livered, tender-handed, narrow- 

 chested, small limbed, and empty-headed parlor ornaments of 

 uppertendom, prate of country folks and country life, and awk- 

 ward country habits, as if they were sprigs of nobility, and 

 were heirs of some vast estate^ of which all farmers were tenants. 

 It is from such self constituted leaders of the ton of society, that 

 youth and young men, perhaps farmer's sons, contract a disease 

 for the business of agriculture, and think all other callings, of 

 even less profit, are more dignified and honorable, and become 

 restless and uneasy. Some will go to a trade in mechanics of 

 hard labor, constant confinement, and poor reward ; others be- 

 come clerks in stores and offices, and some deem the art of pen- 

 manship, the highest attainment of life, and become waiting 

 and serving men for a salary, while still others, and by far the 

 most thoughtless class, having a large natural developemet of 



