The Arkansas advocate., 1830-05-26
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FARMING,
 If one half the zeal, energy and ex- pense that plots 50 many gazettes with low and coarse abuse, setting the con- Illu,lty y the cars for the soie gstili and paltry purposes ot a few demagoguesand oflIce-seelkers, were bestowed oil the ad vaneement of agriculture; if the people were hall as ambitious to improve their fields as they are to settle the affairs of the nation: and half as angry with the thistles, thorns and poor fences, as they are with their political opponents, who probably wish as we'll to the country as. themselves-we should have more pro- dactiyefelds, less complaints of poverty, more ability to be charitable and muni- ficent, and abundantly more good feel ing. From Pittsburgh to New-Orleans, the son pioughs as the father did before him, and the great mass of farmers are as stationaryiu their theory as they are in practice. Nine in ten of them be- lieve, at this moment, that book farming is the mere useless, visionary dreaming of men that know nothing about practf- cal agriculture.
 We would say to them that England is the garden of Europe, simply because almost every acre of the ground is cul- tivated scientifically, and on principles which have been brought to the test of the most rigid and exact experiment. He should tell them that New Eng land, of whose soil and climate they are accustomed to think, as consigned by providence to steriiity and inclemency, is the garden of the United States, only because the industrious and calculating cannot throw away their efforts in mere brute strength-but bring mind and plan, and system and experience to bear upon their naturally hard and thankless soil. On every side, the pass ing traveller sees yerdure and grass, and orchards, in the small and frequent en- closures of imperishable rock, and re- marks fertility won from the opposition of the elements and nature. After an absence Of ten years, on our return to that country, we were struck with this proud and noble triumph, conspicuous over the whole region.
 The real benefactors of mankind, as St. Pierre so beautifully said, are those who cause two blades of wheat to ma ture where one did before. The fields ought to be the morning and evening theme of Americans that love their rcoun- try. To fertilize and improve his farm, ought to be the prime temporal object of every owner of the substantial soil. Al national aggrandizement, power and wealth may be traced to agriculture as its ultimate source. Commerce and manufactures are only subordinate re- sults of this handspring. We consider agriculture every way subsidiary not on- ly to abundance, industry, comfort and health, but to good morals, and ultimate ly even to religion. We shall always say and sing, " Speed the plough" We shall always regard the American Far mer, stripped to his employment, and filling bis grounds, as belonging to the first order of noblenen among us. We shall always wish imbountiful harvests. good beer, and moderate use of cider, and if he will rear it himself, of the grape, but none of the pernicious glad ness of whiskey; and we shall invoke upon his labors the blessing of God, and say of him, .Peace be within thy walls. ''
 Fim's Western Rep5ezv.