The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1841-06-10
TnE PrRsuIr oF AGRlcrLrrRR.

4" Fair queen ofarls. from Heaven itself who came
When Eden tlOurished in unspottod fame
And still! with her sweet inn0cena. we find,
And tender peace, and Joy without name,
That while they ravish, tranquilire the mind,
Nature and Artat ones-deligh, and use combined
( While the population Of the United States
has been rapidly increasing, the number
who aim TO accumulate riches without hard
labor, has increased 1t greater rallo-aud
too many have neglected the culture of the
soil TO eater Oh business Of questionable
utility.
Agriculture affords more certain profits
than any other business. While half who
enter on mercantile pursuits fail at the out.
set, and quarter par: when advanced III
lie, the failure Of temperate Farmer is
almost uuheard of.'
Increased attention 10 agriculture, and
those manufactures which are immediately
depcndaai upon il, would retain in our couu,
Try much Of that wealth, which is nnw sen!
cut Of il. The prbic documents show .bar
10 the year ls3G, {whna the scarcity Of
money paralyZe domestic ludus,ryi no less
than twenty Eve millions we're sent to for
eisn lands 10 pay for SIX goods : species
IF merchandise which can as well be pro
duced al home as Gotten labrlcs--al!h3ugh
one which scarcely receives thought from
The American agrlculturisi.
The dignity Of agricultural pursuits is
not sufficiently acknowledged. What is
are the ayts-but de.
pendants UPON agriculture To what pur
pose is il that our canais-our railroads, I
and the developments Of the great system
of internal improvements, are going for
ward IN Gu. couutry Is il not tina. the .
grand system Of commercial intercourse, /
founded on agriculture, may DO carried on
with the greater facitityl
Let every farmer, but for one year, sus.
pend his toll TO ENJOY that case, 10 the sna.
beams o. winch he sees 50 many L9skag,
and what would become Of every meEcan
Tile and mechanic interest
There is anosher reason why the dignity
Ct this pursJi! should be acknowledged as
essential TO the stability Of our national
wealth. We caanoi better express il than
in the language Of one whose name stands
high in The ANIMALS Of our country. "God
has made the bfeas, of those who labor il
the earth his peculiar deposiIe for subsian
tial virtues. Corruption 10 morals in the
mass Of cu.tyaiors is a phenomenon Of
which no age or country has furnished an
example," THE proportion which the
aggregate Of other classes Of citizens bear
in any State to that of lis husbandman, is
the unsound TO It's healthy parts"
The community appear to be awakened !
to sense of their negligence in this de
partmen, of industry. The agricultural
and geological surveys Of several States
are coming at the root Of the mailer; and
these surveys ought to 20 on, until the nos
more than hidden resources Of our country
are fully developed. Il ls 10 The earth that
we must lool: FOR the valuable and ineXhaus
ilhlc store house Of nature, Gilei with the
rude material for The productive laboTer,
ind rich IN besiowing the nuirment Of life.
A nation which bases its hopes Of prosper
fy upon any less substantial resources, can
never acquire undertaking national wealth. ;
- Portsmouth Journal.