The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-08-10

said that he the greatest benefsctor 10 his
try who caused two blades Of grass 10 grow where
only one grew before (liear, hear) II does not
become me, my lord, will not say a stranger, for
by your courtesy you have permitted 10 lay aside
that name (cheeIs)-but your guest, TO enter in
any details on this occasion IN reference TO the inn
porlant subjects which has called US together but
could not fail To be struck IN going the round Of your
implement and stock yard this morning. with the fact,
that how much hight have existed IN for
mer days for complaining OF the deficiency and want
of Improvement in the construction Of agricultural
implements, or any other department OF agriculture
there for making similar com
plant. IL seemed To me that there was an amount
of science, Of mechanical skill Of practical sagacly
of counenance and attention the part Of the higher
orders, and Of diligence and perseverance, the part
of the aboring classes, all in degree OF close
bnation for the promotion and development Of agr-
culture that has been equalled IN the history
of the world Great cheers.) My lord, il is re.
markable fact, il may be pardoned for general
Election Of this kind that I'LL lately all the great i'm
proyements in agriculture seem TO have been the pro-
duct Of the earliest infancy OF mankind. Who
tell when that useful instrument, which lies at tie
basis of all civzation-who can tel when the
| plough was invented Who can tell when man first
called in the humble partners OF his toll the horse
the OK, the COW, the swine and the sheep, and took
them into profitable alliance with HIMSELF II 1t
were possible to discover the name Of the man who
caught the first wild dog and taught ii TO assist IN
| the tending OF the sheep, you should raise monu
| ment oil brass or marble 10 MS memory-a nOblCr
| monument than has ever been raised To monarch or
TO hero Who is able at this date of the worlds b,-
| tory to tell the period when the olive or the vine
when any of the cereal grains, generous fruits Cr
the esculant roots first brought into their pre-
sent statei There is but of these VIZ. the potato
the history of which is known. The story Of the rest
Iuns back into those recesses of antiquity into which
we cannot penetrate. They were first cultivated
| when our common ancestors roaming over the
morasses Of this now beautiful, and free, and merry
| IaaI 81. al.
land and when the Greeks and Romans were
subsistng upon the beechnut and the (Chders
IL would seem that men, IN their agricultural prog
ress3 have followed, to some extent, that curious
law to which Professor Owen SO happily alluded aud
SO clearly illustrated at the council dinner of yeser
day, thai governs some of the Eliminating animals
within the tropics. He pointed out to US that the
Eliminating animals OF these fervid climes have
large hump OF fat upon their shoulders During the
first five months of the year this excrescence is nou-
| shed and increases while the animal feeds upon the
! food which is then plenliiuy provided for it. On
the store oil lat thus ald aside, II were, for sea
son OF scarcity, they manage TO subsst for the
naming months of the year, when the heritage
parched and fails. Such precisely To have been
the case with mankind regards their progress in
agriculture. la the early infancy of the they
made these great improvements, like the fat hump
described by Mr.. Owen, and for nearly three thou
sand years have they subsised on little else (Grea
! laughter.) We read in the George, of the plough
as IN his day, but the very plough which we
read of there is TO be found still used in the south Of
Europe We see the same plough yet in the hands of
the peasantry there we behold 1t in bas rel ef in
their marble relics Of antiquity, and, far I'M
provement was concerned, the pou lhman in the
marble has done much the poughman in the
field. II is certainly most pleasing subject Of
Election that the revival Of agriculture in these latter
days is the work Of that Anglo-Saxon of which
you, my lord have just spoken. 1t has been left 10
you, and, if may be permitted TO say so, to usl-
ing though do in these austere cimes, and be-
meath these ungenia skies, weeping as they are
in penence for their own rigor the rain fall
ing in torrents the roof Of the pa lion
Great cheerng.) For US, my lord it has been re-
served to do what they have not yet accomplished
Greece in Italy, with all their sunny climes TIL,
is mainly attributable to the want among us of those
tropical uxuries, and those enervang though balmy
breezes OF the SOUTH in tie enjoyment of which
should rot have been possessed Of that hardlhood Of
frometha perseverance, character, and resolution,
that are worth all the spices and perfumes of Arabia
prolonged cheers,) 1t is that which enables you
make the boast, IN which hope my country may be
permitted to join, that
'NIan is the noble growth our soil supplies
And souls rpened in northern skies
[Cheers. beg pardon of the company, and y7l
my lord, for the length of time have detained YOU
(Great cries of "No, no " Ego on, go on.") And,
IN concluding, after thanking you for the Indulgence
you have manifested towards me, and the patience
with which have been listened to, would assure you
all that when these shouts shall be heard across the
Auantic-as they will be in eighteen nineteen
days hence--they will be echoed back again from
hearts as warm as yours THE honorable gentle
man, on sitting down, was greeted with storm Of
applause, which lasted for several minutes.
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