The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1847-11-26
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on, the health of "The Foreign Min
istersr being given made the follow
ing graceful speech: He said h,
could hardly find words to express
lis gratitude for'tlie Kind manner i,
which his country had been alluded
to. Although the Minister of fore.
ign country, he was not altogether &
stranger in that meeting, for nature
had established bonds of union be-
tween the farmers of every nation on
the face Of the earth. The same sun
I shonc upon them all the same sea-
son as they returned furnished the
seed-tim and ripened the harvest.
/ The celestial influences to Which he
must look for blessing on his excr-
tons, might well blend in the breast
/ of the husbandman with that spirit
! of brotherhood which had made the
,tillers of the soil--cspccially those
of Anglo Saxon origin-thc guardi-
ans of freedom and conservators of
peace. Wherever the counselS of
the cultivators OF the soil prevailed,
there it was certain that nations
would dwell in peace. Nor was
that the only point on which foreign
nations found themselves interested
in societies of this kind. Wherever.
he turned lis eyes he beheld evil
dence Of the spirit of enterprise and
Improvement which distinguished
the people Of this country. They
rilled every cline of fruits and flow
crs to enhance the value oftheir own.
Every where you have evidence of.
the combinations of interest which
connected together the nations ofthe
earth. Since he had been in Eng
land he had seen American plants to
which English skill and culture had
been applied and they had attained a
degree of beauty and perfection
which they never possessed in their
native soil. 1t had afforded him the
highest qualification to witness the
beauty of the horses and stock ex-
hibited that day. Agriculture in his |
country differed very much from
that in England. In England the !
farmers went through a course of
work which had been continued
from century to century, and had /
only to perfect what their torefath- /
ers had handed down to them; the
Americans, on the other hand, had
to grapple with the difficulties of ma
ture; to tame, subdue, and render
useless the natural exuberance of
their eXhaustless soil. Nothing had
struck him more since lie had been
in Eng land than the manner in which
the fields were cultivated and weed
ed by the hoe and the hand. In
America the trees are older than the
roads-older than the towns-and,
where spared, were the Oldest mon
ument existing in the country. In
England not an animal was suffered
to live,unless it could produce apass-
port and prove its right to be fatten-
ed and fed. The farmers OF Eng
land cultivated the soil beneath the
beloved churches which stood amid
the graves of their fathers, that
seemed to shed sacred influence
on their tolls. With the Americans,
beneath whose blows the forest fell
with that moving and active pop
ulation, those who now lived upon
the soil were more numerous than all
who slept beneath it. There the ag-
riculturalists, with the instruments
ofhusbandry in their hands, were
Obliged to erect school houses and
churches, and prepare for COMPETE
ton with the mother country in all
that was calculated to promote the
prosperity of mankind by the ad-
vancement olreligion, and the cult
walton Of science and art. In the
name ofevery American he respond
ed to the wish that peace might for
ever prevail between the two coun-
tries. Lett be hoped that the rela-
tons of commerce and the inter-
change of intelligence between the
cultivators of the soil in the two
countries, will unite them together in
such bonds Of amity that no apprc-
tensions ola rupture need be enter
tanned. With these sentiments, ut
tered from his heart and soul, he
responded to the sympathy shown for
his country, and would conclude by
praying for the prosperity of the far
mers OF England.
Sod for young 7rees.-We be-
lieve it is generally admitted, that
tranSplanting trees succeeds best