Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-02-22

petitors in improvement, and by estab-
fishing schools of practical and scientific |
agriculture, all of which come within the
purview of Legislative duties, we could
render all our improved lands as produc-
tive as those Of like quality, which are
well managed, our agricultural products
would be quintupled. This we do not
expect; but after making due allowance
for all drawbacks, it must be apparent to
every rejecting mind, that the advantages
to the state, from judicious application
of a portion of public monies to promote
agricultural improvement, would be mani
testify great We have seen, from COM
bination of local causes, and in n short
period, the agriculture of old settled coun-
tries, doubled and trebled. General
causes, operating upon the whole state,
cannot fail of producing results alike ia
vorable.
T. Agriculture IS entitled to special
patronage, as O matter Of EQUAL JUSTICE,
as tOeH as from considerations of sound
pOLicy-because she had nothing special,
while other classes have had much. She
shares, in common with all, in the advan-
tages of common schools, and public i'm
provements, and she did receive, in 1917,
\ a pittance, a special pittance, which she
has refunded TO the treasury, in the form
OF revenue with compound interest,"
The state may be likened to large fami-
y Of boys. Five sixths of these Lave
charge of the farm; others are taught
trades and handicrafts and to those two
oil 1,1
for the wants of the family But, as
necessary appendage 10 a large family,
one son Is set apart as doctor, another as
minister, and third as a lawyer; and
to qualify these the better for their respec-
tive duties, it isagreed that portion oflhe
family funds shall be applied to the estab-
Ilsbment and maintenance ola school, for
their exclusive benefit. Thus while the
farmers. and mechanics are getting their
trades, by labor, in the field and in the
shop, the doctor, the parson and the law
yer are getting their professions in the
public school. BY and by the working
boys discover, that owing 10 the rapid i'm
provements of the age, school knowledge
{ Is as advantageous to the trades as it is to
the professions; that there have been great
improvements made abroad in their seve-
raj arts of labor, and that without a
knowledge of these Improvements, and of
the laws upon which they are based, thew
cannot successfully compete with their
better instructed neighbors. Feeling
themselves entitled to the same favor that
has been shown to the doctor, the parson
f and the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of acquiring this
: useful knowledge in their business so
necessary to the common interests of the
, family, and influenced bva laudable pride
/ to become in fact, what they are in name,
8 on footing Of equality with their already
5 learned brethren,- the working boys now
i ask the family, to establish for them d
. school, adapted to their employments, now
i that the affairs Of the family are prosper
!. Gus. We cannot, say they, acquire the
/. desired knowledge in the doctors school
becauseit is not aughtthere ; and because
If were it taught, we cannot be spared from
If the farm and shop to go after it. W.
. want a school in which we can practic,
70 our hands to useful labor, gain instruction
d in the principles Of our business, and a
ID the same time qualify ourselves for tb
IS high duties Of social and public life.
N there any thing unreasonable in this re
is quest? Or is there aught in it which
d wise and prudent family would not gran
re with alacrity
,e The state has expended about tire
n millions of dollars towards qualifying tn
nd doctor, the divine, the lawyer, and tn
or gentleman, 10 discharge their several du
he ties in society, from which the farmer an
av mechanic can derive but partial, if an,
Dis direct advantage. The plainest prime
he Piles Of justice which acced9 to all cIassc
al an equal participation in the favors of
he free government, as well as a providel
he foresight, require alike some special pre-
vision for those who live by the sweat
.aL the brow.
he We affect to be above the people of tt
,r. old continent in all our social and politics
mi privileges To sustain this superiori
is. we should be above them, too, in Our il
tn. telIectual and moral Improvements. B.
In we are not. We are superficial in tc
ic- many things. We mistake the nam
mo- too often, for the substance We a.
Of satisfied with sowing a few seeds at RAJ
eat dom, upon superficial tillage, leaving tt
IN after culture to chance; and the cons
ses quence is, weeds-sprng up with luxur
mr. ance, and often smother and destroy Il
Ne plants of usefulness We have but begu
es. in cultivating the mind, the great lever
no the arts, and the re6ner to human EMO
TO- ments. We do moi 60 far enough to e
-ith sure the harvest. In many portions
of Europe, the mind is brought into ear
are discipline, carefully prepared, and SOW
nts; with those seeds (which promise the b
rat return to the individual and to the col
the muuity. Take Prussia for an.illustrati
OPP Of this remark. There the governme