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THE CULTIVATOR. 
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Thus all the unsightly and unseemly objects are spread 
out to view, and the scene is embellished by the addition 
of broken sleighs, sleds, ploughs, wagons, carts, old posts,, 
&C; There lies a shapeless heap of stones; yonder is a 
gate hanging by one hinge, which will soon be broken 
for want of care. Here is a pair of bars thrown down ; 
there the stone wall has tumbled over! 
Such is the scene presented by the residence of a 
wealthy, respectable farmer in New-England; and I am 
sorry to say that there are hundreds, nay thousands, like 
it in New-England—-ay, in New-England! Not that every 
village is a Decay, or every farmer a Wideopen. No! 
Some of our villages are delightful, and some of our 
country people are patterns of good order and neatness. 
But I am speaking of those who are not so. And if these 
pages should come into the hands of any person, in New- 
England or out of it, who is ignorant of the advantages 
of neatness and order, let me urge upon him, as worthy 
of immediate attention, the following remarks, drawn 
from observation and experience. 
1. A man, whose house, like Capt. Wideopen’s, is 
out-of-doors marked by disorder, confusion and want of 
cleanliness, is generally the same in-doors. 
2. Where there is confusion and want of neatness, 
though there may be plenty of bread, butter, milk, 
cheese, fuel, clothing and other necessaries, there is lit¬ 
tle comfort, little thrift, little good nature, little kind¬ 
ness, little religion, little beauty, little peace or happi¬ 
ness. 
3. Children brought up in the midst of confusion and 
want of cleanliness, are likely to be low, vulgar and vi¬ 
cious in their tastes and in their character. Let fatheis 
and mothers consider that, if they bring up their children 
in this way, they are schooling them to be drunkards, pro¬ 
fane, mean, base, wicked and despised; that the school¬ 
ing of home is the most lasting of all schooling ; that 
the ferule of the school-master cannot efface what the 
father and mother have taught; that the preacher can¬ 
not destroy the die stamped upon the young heart at 
home by parental example! Look to this, ye fathers 
and mothers, and if for your own sakes ye are indiffe¬ 
rent to neatness and order, for the sake of the young 
immediately around you, be no longer so! 
4. There is a constant tendency in the want of order 
and neatness to cause ruin and waste; consequently 
a man who, like Capt. Wideopen, allows things to go 
on in this way, generally gets poorer and poorer, till at 
length, mortgages, embarrassment, debt, losses and the 
law, bring him to poverty. 
5. Neatness and good order contribute to health,wealth 
and happiness; while opposite habits tend to disease, 
misery, poverty, vice and short life. 
Let us now turn to another scene. The village of 
Thriveweli is also a New-England village, and is re¬ 
markable for its pleasant, cheerful aspect. Every person 
who rides through it is delighted ; and the place has such 
a reputation, that the land is worth more, and the houses 
will sell for more, than in almost any other place of the 
kind you can name. And this arises from the good 
taste, neatness and order, which characterize the inha¬ 
bitants. I will give you a sketch of the house belonging 
to Capt. John Pepperidge; a careful, correct, upright 
man, who has risen from poverty, to ease and compe¬ 
tence, by industry, economy and prudence. 
His house stands three or four rods back from the 
street; the front yard is green, grassy and decorated 
with handsome trees. The wood-pile is fenced in; the 
barn-yard, pig-pen, &c. are also tidily fenced. It is a fa¬ 
vorite proverb with Pepperidge, that there should he a 
■place for every thing, and that every thing should he in 
its place. This is his great maxim; and he not only ob¬ 
serves it himself, but he requires every man, woman 
and child about him to observe it also. He says it saves 
him one hundred dollars a year. 
He has other rules, such as a stitch in time saves nine: 
thus, as soon as a stone falls off the wall, he puts it up; 
when a rail gets out of the fence, he replaces it; when 
a gate is broken, it is forthwith repaired; if a clapboard 
is loose, a nail clenches it. Thus, matters are kept tight 
and tidy. Of a wet day, instead of going to the tavern, 
he spends the time in making little repairs. At odd mo¬ 
ments of leisure, he sets out trees and shrubs; thus, 
year by year, beautifying his place, and rendering it not 
only more comfortable, but also worth more money, in 
case he should ever desire to sell it. 
Capt. Pepperidge takes great pleasure, and perhaps a 
little innocent pride, in his place, though, to say the 
truth, it is by no means costly. He loves better to spend 
his time in making it more convenient and pleasant, in 
setting out trees, improving the grounds, mending the 
fences, &c. than in going about to talk politics, or gossip 
upon other people’s business, or in haunting a tavern 
bar-room. In short, his home is comfortable, pleasant,/ 
delightful. It is neat and orderly, inside and out. And 
he has made it so; though his wife, having happily 
caught the influence of his example, contributes her 
share to the good work. His children are well dressed, 
well educated, well behaved. Can such a man be a 
drunkard? Can he be vicious? Can he be wicked? 
Who has so good a chance of health, wealth and happi¬ 
ness? Who so likely to be respected by his neighbors? 
Who so likely to do good by his influence and example ? 
Come, Capt. Wideopen, I pray you, and learn a lesson 
of farmer Pepperidge! 
Let us look at the practical effect of Pepperidge’s ex¬ 
ample. Formerly the village of Thriveweli was called 
Uneasy Swamp, and was inhabited by a set of people be¬ 
coming the name. They were poor, ignorant, idle and 
uneasy. They were jealous of all rich people, and con¬ 
sidered the unequal distribution of property a dreadful 
evil. They were equally jealous of the wise, and consi¬ 
dered the unequal distribution of knowledge a nuisance 
to be abated. They were also jealous of the virtuous, 
and hated nothing so much as a just and honest man.— 
In short, they were, half a century ago, where some con¬ 
ceited but ignorant and ill-minded people are now, wil¬ 
ling to level every body and thing to their own standard. 
If a candidate for office was up; who addressed their pre¬ 
judices, and coaxed them with promises; though mean¬ 
ing to cheat them, he was the man for them. If he was 
known to be mean, slippery arid unprincipled, fellow- 
feeling seemed to render them kind, and the more ar¬ 
dently they espoused his cause. Such was Uneasy 
Swamp ; a place which may have its image still in some 
parts of the country. 
But Pepperidge came among the people and set them a 
good example. They persecuted him, reviled him, hated 
him, ridiculed him, broke down his fences at night, and 
played him sundry mischievous tricks. But he was pa¬ 
tient, and tough in his patience, as the tree that gave him a 
name; and he overcame them at last. One by one, the 
villagers began to imitate him. The small brown houses 
gradually lost their look of squalidness and disorder. The 
Swamp emerged from its shadow, and became a cultivat¬ 
ed valley. The little farmers and the humble mechanics 
rose from their degraded condition; education spread its 
light; industry and frugality showered down their bles¬ 
sings; and Uneasy Swamp became the flourishing vil¬ 
lage of Thriveweli. 
And thus, though none of the people are what is cal¬ 
led rich, none are poor. The small houses are neat, 
and the fruit-trees, the blossoming shrubs, the green 
grass around them declare that the people are happy. 
They are not mad in the foolish chase for riches, which 
is destroying more peace in this country than all the bo¬ 
dily diseases our flesh is heir to. They are now, from 
better knowledge, satisfied that the rich man shall pos¬ 
sess his wealth, both because they perceive that, gene¬ 
rally speaking, the laboring classes are the happiest, 
and that the security of property is the only steady im¬ 
pulse to economy, industry, providence, and the other 
important village virtues. They are more fond of know¬ 
ledge, for they perceive that it increases their power of 
being happy. They respect talent and wisdom, for they 
know that these are gifts sent by heaven for the guidance 
of man to happiness. In politics, they are staunch re¬ 
publicans, but always give their votes for men of ster¬ 
ling integrity. A man who has the general character 
of being an artful, intriguing office-seeker, has no chance 
with them. They are perhaps a little prejudiced against 
cities and city people. If they ever have any thing to 
do with a lawyer, they go to one who has been bred in 
the country, and one who was in early life a farmer.— 
They think, and, perhaps, justly, that while this rustic 
breeding gives a man an habitually honest and plain 
turn of mind, it also renders him more knowing, saga¬ 
cious and favorable in his feelings, in respect to country 
people. 
I cannot better close this sketch than by introducing 
some lines which are much esteemed in the village of 
Thriveweli. Every man, woman and child there knows 
them by heart. 
“ Let order o’er your time preside, 
And method all your business guide. 
Early begin and end your toil, 
Nor let great tasks your hands embroil; 
One thing at once be still begun, 
Contrived, resolved, pursued and done. 
Hire not for what yourselves can do, 
And send not wdien yourselves can go; 
Nor till to-morrow’s light delay 
What might as well be done to-day. 
By steady efforts all men thrive, 
And long by moderate labor live; 
While eager toil and anxious care, 
Health, strength, and peace, and life impair. 
Nor think a life of toil severe; 
No life has blessings so sincere. 
Its meals so luscious, sleep so sweet, 
Such vigorous limbs, such health complete, 
No mind so active, brisk and gay, 
As his who toils the livelong day. 
A life of sloth drags hardly on; 
Suns set too late and rise loo soon. 
Youth, manhood, age, all linger slow 
To bun who nothing has to do. 
The drone, a nuisance to the hive, 
Stays, but can scarce be said to live; 
And well the bees, those judges wise, 
Blague, chase and sting him till he dies.” 
Casimir Perier, on being called an “ aristocrat,” 
and one of the privileged classes, replied—“My only 
aristocracy is the superiority which industry, frugali¬ 
ty, perseverance and intelligence will always assure 
to every man in a free state of society. I belong on¬ 
ly to those privileged classes to which you may all 
belong in your turn. They are not privileges creat¬ 
ed/or us, but created by us. Our wealth is our own ; 
we have made it. Our ease is our own ; we have 
gained it by the sweat of our brows, or by the labor 
of our minds. Our position in society is not confer¬ 
red upon us, but purchased by ourselves—with our 
own intellect, application, zeal, patience and industry. 
If you remain inferior to us, it is because you have 
not the intellect or industry, the zeal or the sobriety, 
the patience or the application, necessary to your ad¬ 
vancement. This is not our fault, but your own.— 
You wish to become rich, as some do to become wise; 
but there is no royal road to wealth any more than 
there is to knowledge. ^You sigh for the ease and 
repose of wealth, but you are not willing to do that 
which is necessary to procure them. The husband¬ 
man who will not till his ground shall reap nothing 
but thistles and briars. You think the commodities 
in human society are useless and misdirected if you 
do not become wealthy and powerful by the changes; 
but what right have you to expect—you idlers and 
drones in the hive—you shall always be fed on the 
honey and sweets of life 1 What right have you, who 
do nothing for yourselves, your families, your com¬ 
munes, your arrondissments, your country or your 
kind, to imagine that you will be selected by them 
for their favor, their confidence, their rewards'! 
“I am not an aiistocrat in that sense of the term 
in which it may be applied in absolute governments, 
or under imperial rule ; but if, by an aristocrat, you 
mean a man who has earned his promotion by his in¬ 
dustry—Oh, then, indeed, I am an aristocrat; and, 
please God, I may always remain so. The distinc¬ 
tions in human society displease you, because you 
have not the talent or industry to amend your own 
position. You are too idle to labor, and too proud to 
beg; but I will endeavor to take care that you do not 
rob me. I throw back, then, with indignation and 
resentment, the charge which is made. I belong to 
the middling classes of society. I have been select¬ 
ed by my fellow citizens, and by my king, as one of 
their representatives ; and, by the blessing of God, I 
WILL REPRESENT THEM.”— BUlcklVOod. 
Moneys received during the last month, in sums of Jive dollars 
and over. The total receipts are included from post-ojjices 
marked with an asterisk * 
No. Vols, 
*Athens, Ga. 20 
*Augusta, Ga. 74 
♦Baltimore, Md. 102 
Buckram, Qn. 6 
♦Boston, Mass. 136 
Burlington, Vt. 5 
Berlin. Gt. 6 
"Cincinnati, O. 19 
*Chillicothe, O. 19 
♦Chuckatuck, Va. 11 
"Charlottesville, Va. 44 
Cadiz, Ky. 5 
♦Cambridge, Md. 32 
Cam plown, N. J. 5 
Donaldsonville, La. 1U 
Derby, Vt. 5 
Duanesburgh, Schen. 6 
Farmville, Va. 13 
Glasgow, Ky. 1C 
"Hickory Ground, Va. 21 
Jackson C. H. O. 5 
Kanawha Saline, Va 2G 
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"Lockport, Niag. 28 
Lafayette, la. 5 
Le Roy, Gen. 5 
Lowvilie, Lewis, 5 
Lawrenceburgh, Tenn. 11 
♦Lake C. H. Ia. 17 
Mechanicsville, Sar. 11 
Middlebury, Vt. 6 
Maygville, Ky. 5 
Mocksville, N. C. 10 
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Mentor, 
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North Lake, 
Newport, 
No. Windham, 
Northampton, 
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Rockford, 
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Raudolph, 
Stamford, 
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Saline, 
St. Johnsville, Mo 
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Spout Spring, 
Warminster, 
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Mich. 
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5 
Ct. 
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53 
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144 
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