The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-02-16


profession seems to take the precedence In public
e estimation. Why it is so, cannot divine. But
in all that makes up intrinsic, essential dignity,
: your profession is in advance of any other Take
r your stand, therefore, on this doctrine-not with
Wanting PRIDE but in well-consideredc confidence.
, BY adding to your intelligence, your moral worth,
your numbers, you may be acknowledged by
common consent to be what | have assumed
Seek the intellectual Improvement of your Glass;
This is, am aware, involved in the last consid-
cred point but it is worthy of distinct notice. |
= would here urge that your schools be well sus-
tanned, well taught and well supplied with books.
If it be possible, procure district library. This
will cost but trife, when divided among YOU,
and will shed incalculable blessings among your
community. Take such periodicals as will inform
you of the agricultural and general intelligence
of the passing time. While it is true, that shook
farming" has been partially unsuccessful among
us, as means of profit, it has arisen from the
fact, that theory has not been properly attended by
industrious practice. But it is equally true, that
our agricultural prints contain mine of interest
ing matter. know an individual who, by sim
gle hint casually noticed in borrowed periodi-
cal, very greatly increased his crop of corn, suf-
GENTLY to pay the subscription for many years for
that paper. A thousand facts might be NAM
ed, to prove that papers of this description have
both in the Old World and the New, tended
greatly to advance the agricultural interests
One thing in this department is disideratum, and
he who shall furnish it shall have the thanks of
thousands it is monthly periodical, adapted to
the wants of the first settler The Cultivator,
The Gennesse Farmer, and the like, are better a.
dapted to older farming regions than to such as
this We need one of an entirely different char
acter; and if such an one We're issued from the
press at Waterown, | doubt not it would have
wide circulation, and would communicate impor-
tant good throughout this and the adjoining new
counties. Before pass from this topic, can
not fail to notice the new literary institution at
| Watertown. | need not mention its name, for its
praise is on all our lips. Let us hail its estab-
lishment, as happy era in the means Of educa-
ton, within reach of our sons and daughters
May the blessing of heaven rest upon it!
Be FREEMEN | have endeavored to set forth
your importance, as conservative element of our
nation. Hence arise the urgent claims your
country has upon you, that you acquire correct
views of your political duties. How indispensa-
bic u.s. that you Think talk, and act like freemen
Be free from the trammels of party; at least so
far free, as to vote as your own judgment shall
decide The most miserable of all tools is the
tool of party politician. May the God of ma
tons save us from that fatal day in which the
great ldrlnlDS Interest Sndll NOT tlLh anu act lor
themselves. Let not the wire workers behind the
scenes move you as they may please. Deem it
your birthright, your inaienabe privilege, which
you will not surrender, to scan the conduct and
character of the man who asks your suffrage
Arise to your duty and your privilege in this mat
ter, as you value your country's veal.
If l. might not be doomed resunptiuus, /
would suggest for reflection, whether you should
not, oftener than you d. return to the national and
the state legislatures persons from among your
own ranks. You have amongst you men compe-
tent to mingle in any public counses under the
sum- And when we remember that, according to
an old and true proverb, GAS agriculture goes, so
goes the state" and remember that FIVE sixths of
the population of this calling the proposition
is strengthened. Indeed is it too much to say,
that all laws which have not primary reference
TO your class, are in so far radically defective
Try it. Send up to the halls of Legislation your
choice men. Too long have you been content to
send those whose habits of life, whose interests,
whose views, and business, are not sufficiently
agricultural
C~ltivate the kindly and social affections. In q
new country like this, the duty is imperative that
we help one another. Many, very many among
US are poor, struggling hard to make beginning, =
as it is called These need counsel, encourage !
ment and aid A little seed wheat little -four y
DR. meal, the use OF team Tor day or two, or !
little advice, to poor neighbor, may often turn =
he scale in his favor. have known great suffer-
ng exist in this community, for the want of
very little aid-so little, that almost any of us
night have given it. But need not enlarge on =
his point | am witness to your kindness and !,
In your DIGGING bees, your "hoeing I
md raising bees" you have given proof that you
ire ready to help each other.
Finally, look we'll to the morals of your class.
This is, after ALL the leaven which shall work out
your own and the nations prosperity or adversely r
With high tone Of moral sentiment such as is :
n keeping with the dignity of the American yeo-
n anry all will be safe. Let Temperance hold
Ter court among you, and the Sabbath be a day a
If rest to man and to beast The interests at :"
take are immense. You labor for posterity.
You hold the earth in trust for the succeeding b.
1t is soon to pass from your hands to
o theirs. Let it go to them with good roads, e.
With weltilled fields, with good fences with the "
cst of stock, with fruit and flower, with school, Of
ouses dotting the landscape like gems in every til
Erection, and with the spire pointing heaven-ward
rom every valley. Thus, will you have we'll
erformed your part. Postery will accord to p
ou their gratitude. On all around, will be found j