Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1819-08-03
this world in prosperity around him.

tnis world 10 prosperity around him.
have mentioned a single case-there are
many other things Of great importance tc
the husbandman, which ought to be men.
toned; our domestic animals the i'm.
provement in breeding, rearing and fat
tening but | will not detain you to CON-
ment on this part of The subject. To
some gentlemen, more, who may hereafter
address you, leave it for more minute
investigation.
The necessity and practicability of re.
form is demonstrated by comparison Of
our own country with that of England :
there the farmer pays from 20 to Is dol
lars per acre per annum, aud yet expe-
riences constant progression OF wealth.
while we, the lords of the soil, are suf.
tering depreciation Of capital to live. Ii
is said the high price Of iabour ruins us.
And why ? because ittakes an abundance
to produce small income. Enrich your
lands, aud the evils will cease.
By this improvement you not only
augment the produce, but the Intrinsic
value of the soil, and increase the aggre-
gate oil wealth by certain ratio in pro-
portion to the increase of product.
But" says the nearer, this is all
well enough, yet why need we form So
cieties, TO discover that cur lands are bar
rem, and ourselves almost bankrupt We
perceive this too fatally already. A So
ciety will not make our corn grow, and
secure our wheat from the ravages of win
ter, insect. or smut"
This, may be true, but society will
promote invention and experiment, and
create new motives to research, and there
by discover the defects and the remedy.
By associating, we combine our knowI-
edge, and diffuse it to each member, we
form a fountain to which each may con-
tribute drop and draw from thence the
whole of the aggregate without diminish
ing the quantity.
If the remedy could be found by soli-
tary trial, why has it SO long remained
dormant ? We have long felt the disease.
without searching for specific. We
have talked and slept, and slept and talked,
our lands running down. and our stores Of
poverty augmenting, yet no one has had
the enterprise TO attempt a reformation.
Another subject has dweIt strongly and
painfully upon my mind our SONS and
daughters cannot labor-and why ? o it
is questionable; no gentleman or lady
thinks OF such thing, say they aud
why not ? Because it is questionable
make it once fashionable, and it will be-
come an amusement. II is less fatiguing
than dancing, or many of the athletic
pastimes of gentlemen. A society may
cure this evil, make reasonable industry
popular, and elevate it to rank il was
originally designed to hold, and which it
did hold in purer times.
In the happy days Of patriarchal gov
erlment, the sons and daughters Of prin-
ces despised not the labors Of the field, or
The nurturing of flocks and herds. 1t is
only since the body and mind have be-
come enervated and corrupted in the mer-
lap Of fashion, that honest in
dustry has been banished from refined So
ciety, and spurned as degrading.
If people who hold elevated ranks
would come forth, the practical advocates
of industry, the prejudices that slacken
the exertions of the sons and daughters Of
America, would soon become extinct, and
the blessings of reformation pervade the
various orders of society. Those bles-
sings are health, contentment and abund-
ance. Midnight festivity and dissipation,
the parents of sickness and remorse,
would be exchanged for the more re-
freshing embrace of kind natures sweet
restorer, balmy sleep
From the Northern Whig.
THE WIFE.