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deserve a generous support and receive it, for we know how essential a good Country Press is.
Advertising and cash.
Extensive Advertising of itself is morally certain to work a revolution in trade, by driving thousands of the easy-going out of it, and concentrating business in the hands of the few who know how to obtain and keep it. Unite with this the substitution of cash for credit, and one-fifth of those now engaged in trade will amply suffice to do the whole—and will soon have it to do. The revolution is already begun.
In peace, prepare for war.
It is not true that
our best security for peace is keeping up an army at a cost of $15,000,000 a year to the people.
All that we need are iron, lead, men, good schools, and good roads.
There is more of military capability for defense in one
railroad than in all the fortifications from
Boston to
Charleston.
No; we want the legislation that will make the country independent and prosperous; we want the money-changers driven from the temple; in each State, if you will, a school for the diffusion of the science of
civil engineering and military science, to convert our people in case of need into “ disciplined soldiers.”
It does indeed behoove us in peace to prepare for war; but this is all the preparation we want.
To country merchants.
The merchant's virtue should be not merely negative and obstructive—it should be actively beneficent.
He should use opportunities afforded by his vocation to foster agricultural and mechanical improvement, to advance the cause of education and diffuse the principles not only of virtue but of refinement and correct taste.
He should be continually on the watch for whatever seems calculated to instruct, ennoble, refine, dignify and benefit the community in which he lives.
He should be an early and generous patron of useful inventions and discoveries, so far as his position and means will permit.
He should be a regular purchaser of new and rare books, such as the majority will not buy, yet ought to read, with a view to the widest dissemination of the truths they unfold.
If located in the country, he should never visit the city to replenish his stock without endeavoring to bring back something that will afford valuable suggestions to his customers and neighbors.
If these are in good part farmers, and no store in the vicinity is devoted especially to this department, he should be careful to keep a supply of the best plows and other implements of farming, as well as the choicest seeds, cuttings, &c., and those fertilizing substances best adapted to the soil of his township, or most advantageously transported thither; and those he should be very willing to sell at cost, especially to the poor or the penurious, in order to encourage their general
