Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1844-12-19
ADDRESS.

lie Comfy, Del a, me Annual Meeting.
Sept ilth, 1874. By JoHN ) SKiSsrg,
ESQ.
IPWc have perused with interest
MIR. SINNERS address, and give below
some extracts for the benefit Of our rca-
ders. Mr.. S. was the founder, and till
within a few years, the editor Of the
american Farmer" the oldest of the
agricultural journals. His services,
while connected with that paper, were
of great utility in advancing agricul-
tural improvements at the South, and
indeed, their beneficial influence was
felt wherever his paper was circulated.
Since his retirement from his editorial
vocation, and while holding n high of.
fetal station under the general govern
ment, his pen, at his Ieasure, has been
actively employed in contributing from
his stores of varied knowledge and
practical wisdom, for the columns of
different agricultural publications, thus
cvincing devotednesSs to the interests
of agriculture and It's followers, which,
while it reflects upon him the highest
credit, cntltle him to be held in CRATE
! full remembrance by every tillcr Of
American soil. Long may he live to
benefit his species, and to be honorcd
as their bencfactor.
EXTRACT.
EDUCATION OF FARMERs.-sIf the
husbandman that laboreth shall be the
first partaker of the fruit should not
his class, which constitutes the main
strength of the nation, assert its rights
to a proportionate share in the direct
ton of the governments But look at
our Legislative assemblies, and all our
public trusts, and mark in what small
proportion those who fill them are usu-
ally are taken from the ranks of practi
cal hrisbandmen, and this is more es-
pecially the case where education is
the least difiused. Is it not time, then,
to look at the effects of the landed in
terests, Of neglecting the mental cul-
ture of those who are destined for the
cultivation of the soil Understand
me not as meaning TO derogerate from
the characters of other classes. On the
contrary, there seems TO be something
in the moral training of learned pro.
LESSONS which at once enlightenes and
liberalizes the mind and heart, 1t is.
indeed, the natural influence of knowl-
edge to extinguish all the meaner pas
sions of the soul, and TO animate it
with noble purposes, just as thorough
draining and good tillage sweeten wet
and sour land. j would invite even
you, Farmers of Delaware, to unite
with mcin denouncing that overween-
ing jealousy, the growth ofnarrow and
vulgar minds, which too often leads
the tiller of the soil to look on the man.
featuring and mercantile classes as
on hostile sects, ever on the watch to
overreach and bctray the farmer. Far
different are the ends and effects of
domestic manufacturers and commerce
, in respect TO the landed interest, when
all their relations are fairly appreciated.
Ii is the interest of the farmer that
these other communities should be-
come in his vicinity as numerous as
the sands on the sea-shore, Dense
, populations naturally lead us to the
division Of labor, and thereby under
the protection of wise and stable leg
isIation, to the multiplication of trade,
the perfection of the art, the creation of
wealth, and with it, innumerable arti-
fetal wants, which it is the business
+ and the benefit of your pursuit to sup
ply. TO fix the happiness and virtue
/, OF nation on a solid foundation says
, a celebrated philosopher, they must
rest on reciprocal dependence be
tween all the orders of citizens Yet
there are moral incendaries, from
which no country is exempt, whose
business it is TO inaence one class a.
, gainst another the farmer against the
merchant, the artiZan against the
man OF scicnce-the poor against the
rich not stopping or careing TO reflect,
that when, by the base arts of the dem
egogue, the honest avaiis of diligence
and talents shall have been put in con
tlnued jeopardy, the handspring of So
cial amelioration will have been broken,
and society turned back upon that
: dreadful march which leads 10 all the
crime and anarchy hnt invariably
follow in the train Of unrcstrained ig-
, norance and selhshEess. But essential
tothe common prosperity Of a people as
! are the existence and the success of the
4 numerous Glasses to which the indus
7 try, the wealth, and the wants Of dense
! populations give rise, il does not fol-
; low that any one Of the classes, and
|, especially the most numerous and pro-
duciiye, as IS the agricultural iq our