Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1824-10-26

VI ioouei. Ill THIS W ny w. "''f
tIonsbly the most printable; and when
intended 10 be cut green, Eve or six bush
els should be .own on an acre.
| As a general rule, peas and oats con-
stitu,s The best fallow crop, upon cold
stiff soils, particularly if the ground is
not MANFRED. Upon loans and sands,
beans, and with manur5, maize and pota-
toes, are preferable as falow crops.
From the Baltimore Patriot.
am DOW TO say something upon po-
liticsl experience. The advantage that
practical experience affords is equally
felt by he intellectual, moral and physi-
cal laborer. Il is acknowledged by the
NJ embers OF the learned as we'll IS by
those oil the mechanical professions,
and it is particularly insisted upon by
most divines, that the longer We have
been engaged in doing good and avoid
| ing evil, We become the more coIppe-
tent for the discharge of the task. The
srFn thss hes eeer. anexercised for a con-
siderable length OF time shriuks In ui-
mension, and fails in energy and activity.
! Il IL Just 50 with the mind i--by health
sui exercise of It's powers, lis vlgor and
dexteriiy arc increased; and each sue
cessive task, after proper in'ermissions
! of repese, is the more readily and easily
! performed; but if You suffer it to be I'M
iemploysd in the ratio that it is permitted
to be so, will be the deciension ofa!l its
powers and is approxlm atien 10 imbe-
eility. But it is not only in its general
but lis particular powers, that the body
Or mind may be invigoraied or weak ened.
Observe the greater nobility aud
strength of the right arm in most per-
sons, on account of its being more fire.
quenily employed. Nslice with VIVA,
| expedition and accuracy an experienced
| arilhmetioian sums up almost intermina-
Die accounts. Mark the ingenuity and
| promptiiude OF the confessed maizena,
tician in solving the most intricate pro-
blems. Observe the facility with which
habitual pleaders clo,he their thoughts
with language--the despatch with which
player commits his part to memory
and the address which the improvisatore
will compose stanzas. Thus it is with
The regularly trained sta esman. He
transacts his business with expedition
and accuracy aud satisfaction. There
is no bungiing, no wasteful INDIGESTION.
He is proinp. or deliberaive, as i, may
be requisite. While with single dash
of his pen he slIences calumny he pa
tienty waits for the yir.uous decisions OF
truth and justice. He knows that
though factions may brawl, the prudent
and enlightened are his friends. He is
master Of his business; and his former
errors indirectly Improve his latter
ludg
Fran the profession Of law mos, of
our statesmen are taken; yet how to-
reign the study OF law, exclusively, is 10
the objects of slatcsman's attention,
~e have the authority of the elhquent
Curran 10 assure 10. There is then a
peculiar experience necessary to the
| able statesman.
| am not dispnsed to say that expe-
rience of wha,eeef duration can supply
the place or remove the deficiencies oil
original taleni--native power Of mind.
am we'll aware bloc khead can be
perfect in nothing. l am TOO often
| painfully compelled to witness that an
sique ignorance and old aud unimprovcd
duilness usurp the just prerogative oil
alenl and knowledge because their pos.
SCISSOR may perchance be youthful. Yet
would lay it down as an anxiom inva.
riably true, that of two men oil the same
profession, of equal powers Of mind,
and Of equal industry in the acquisition
Of knowledge, that that one who from
the influence of circumstances has had
most experience will be found hes,
lquallfied for the practice Of his profes
sion OF whatsoever nature it may be.
4 Which of the, candidates for the Pre-
sidency equals each of the others in the
-".-.. and desree Of his original talent,
and IN the variety and profoundly of bis
Information, and surpasses all of them
in political experience in its wides,
sense 1t is unnecessary for me to
name him. There is not mind so ig-
norant nor hear, so selfish that would
not readily reply-JoHN QUINoY ADAMS.
! II is confessed by the partsans oil
each OF the candidates, that the politics
OF the cabinet of continental Europe are
hostile to the independence and integri.
~ OF our republican institutions, and
thai if favorable opportunity Should
offer Tor affecting change or msdihca.
ton in tbs torn Of our government, they
would both gladly and promptly avail
themselves of it. Yet certain yaporine
persons declare that it is not REQUESTS