Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1840-02-21
MISCELLANEOUS.
IHE CHARMS OF A FARMERS LIFE.


Mr. Coleman certainly deserves great credit
CT his exertions IN the agricultural cause. II
undoubtedly the great and vital interest Of the
tountry, and the more attention is drawn to 1t
the better for US all. In his address late deliv-
cred before Society at Concord---and truly
elegant as we'll as sensible discourse il is--we
have the following passage on what may be cal
led the poetry of his profession; little of -four
ish we acknowledge, but founded essentially
on strict truth.
"What means Of impar,ing pleasure is an
improved agriculture. How many charming
examples present themselves among US OF I'M
provements which every eye gazes upon with
unmingled delight. Let man according TO his
power, take his ten, his twenty, his fifty, his
hundred acres. Let him comb the hair, and
wash the face of nature. Let him subdue, clear,
cultivate, enrich, embellish it, Let him smooth
the rough places; and drain the wet, and fill
up the sunken and enrich the barren. Let him
enclose it with neat and substantial fence Let
him line its borders and roadsides with orna-
meutal trees, and let his stock every proper
part with vines and fruits. Let his fields and
meadows wave with their golden harvests, and
let his hills be covered with the herds rejoicing
in the fulness with which his labors, under the
blessing of God, have spread their table, and
who, when he goes among them, hasten from
all sides to meet him and gratefully recognise
IN him friend and beneiactor, and lick the
hand which, accustomed TO feed and fondle
them. Here now let us see the neatly painted
cottage with ats green shades, its piazzas trel-
ilsed with vines, lis sides covered with the
spreading elm or the Towering acacia, with here
and there the e utilul fur to shade the picture,
and the mountain ash showing Its clusters OF
crimson fruit among the deep green foliage, and
the smooth and verdand lawn stretching its soft
and beautiful carpet In the front view; then
look again and see the parents at the close OF
day, resting from their lahors, and enjoying the
calm evening" with the pledges of mutual and
devoted affection noting before them in all the
buoyancy of youthful Innocence and delight
and If at such an hour as this, you can hear the
hymn of grateful praise rising from this humble
abode of peace and love, and its charming notes
mingling with the music of the gurgling brook
that flows near by, or by the occasional shrill
and hollow notes Of the gentle and fearless
bride, which deem themselves loving members
OF this loving household; if then, whether ira
Weller or sojourner, your heart is not touched
with this charming and not unusual picture OF
'N14N1'y, NOoSC " Can youESeil mdH III
still you sigh for the hustle and the noise and
the confinement of the city, with its impure wa
Ter, with Its midnight festivities, with its utter
desttuton of sympathy, with its low estimate
oi human life, with its squalid poverty, It's mui-
upl1ed forms of wretchednAss and crime its
pride, its vanity, its ambition, its pomp, It's SER
Witty; then go back to your gilded prison house
and to pleasures, which an uncorrupted and re-
fined taste, accustomed TO drink in the free air
of heaven, and to appreciate its freshness, its
purity and its salubrity, you will find no occa-
sion to coVet or envy. The man who by his
cultivation and good husbandry presents such
a picture to the passer by shall he not be cal
led benefactor to the community! Has he
not done much to improve and bless society by
his example? Has he not built monument to
his own honor, more eloquent than the sculp-
iured marble %