Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1841-03-04
Communications.
AGRICULTURAL

AGRICULTURAL.
Agreeable to previous notice, a few of the
citizens of Abbeville and Edge6eld, assem-
bled at Cambridge, on Saturday the 18th
inst, for the purpose ofc considering on the
necessity and propriety offormins an Agri-
cultural Society.
On motion Of Dr.. Cain, WHITErIELD
BRooKs, Esqr,, was called to the Chair,
and Capt. RoBT. CHILD, appointed as
Secretary.
The Chairman explained the object of
the meeting in few appropriate remarks,
in which he urged the necessity and i'm
portance Of the movement, and the bene-
fetal results that must ensue from the con-
ccntration Of The intelligence and energies
of.,he community, in the improvement and
culture of the soiI, in the manifold and va
ried duties of husbandy, and the proprie-
ty of forming Society for lliat purpose.
On motion of Gen. Gillian, a commit
tee of three was appointed by the Chair,
10 prepare and submit Constitution for
The government the Society. The Chair
man appointed Messrs. Gillian, Cain aud
J. w. Chiles, who having retired, report
ed Constitution, which was read and
approved, and on motion, was taken up
clause by clause, considered, amended,
and adopted.
The meeting proceeded in their organ
iza,ion, by subscribing to the Constitu-
ton, b. which they were pledged to each
other, to move onward in the grea, cause,
and their utmost exertions to promote the
objects in view; and although the day was
extremely cold, twenty-five signatures
were annexed 10 the Constitution.
They now proceeded to the election Of
Officers for The government Of the Society,
which resulted in the choice Of Gen. Gil
| tam, rCsfuriri -'rui,uUiu Druun,,-1.g..
Vice President; Dr.. T. v. Cain, Cores
ponding Secretary; Capt. Robt. Child,
Recording Secretary, and Dr.. Richard
c. Griffin, Treasurer.
The Society thuslbeing organized, and
the President having taken The Chair, pro-
ceedcd to ballot for an Orator under the
Constitution, to deliver suitable address
to the Society, on the first Friday in May
next, which resulted in the choice of Whit
field Brooks, Esqr., for that purpose.
The following resolutions were then
submitted and unanimously adopted:
Resolsed, That the President appoint
The Standing Committees of the Society,
required by the Constitution at his leisure.
Resolved, That when this Society ad-
journs, it adjourn to meet again at this
place OH the first Saturday in March next.
Resolved, That The proceedings of this
meeting be published in the Edge6eld Ad-
vcTtscr, the Greenvile Mountaineer, and
the Columbia South Carolinian, and that
we invite the cooperation of our fellow
citizens TO make comnon cause with US,
in the advancement Of an interest the most
important and interesting among men, aud
which is. in truth, the foundation of all
others; to aid US in our endeavors to arrest
the progress Of abuses; to retrieve this fair
and once fertile region in which Providence
has cast our lots, from The desolaiion that
swept over it, and 10 which we are bound
by so many ties, and endearing and inter-
esting associations restore its lost fertility,
and make it the home OF plenty for our
selves and our children.
Adjourned.
By order ofihe Society,
ROBT. CHILD,
Recording Secretary.