The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1847-09-04
Bancr0n'- Opiaioa Of English Agriculture.

AT he dinner of the Rovs! Agricultural So
ciety at Northampton. on the nd ult. Mr. Ban
croft. the American Ambassador, upon the
health of The Foreign Minister" being given,
made the following graceful speech; He said
that he could hardly lind words to express his
gratitude for the Kind manner in which mis-
country had been alluded TO. Although the
Minister of foreign country he was altogether
a stranger in that meeting, for nature had estab-
lished bonds of union between the farmers of
every nation on the face OF the earth. The
SAME sun shone upon them all the same seasons
as they returned furnished the seed-tiIne, and
ripened the harvest The celestial influences
10 which he must look for blessing on his ex-
eriions might well blend in the breast of the
husbandman with that spirit of brotherhood
which had made the ,illers Of the soil-especially
those Of Anglo-Saxon origin-the guardians OF
freedom and conservaiors of peace. Wherever
the councils of the cul,ivators of the soil pre-
vailed. there il certain that nations wculd
dwell in peace. Nor was that the only po, Mt
on which foreign nations found themselves in
terested in societies Of this kind. Wherever he
turned his eyes he beheid evidence of the spirit
Of enterprise and improvement which distin-
guished the people Of this country. They ritled
every cline of fruits and flowers TO enhance the
value of their own. Everywhere you had evil
d.nce Of the Combinations Of interest which
connected together the nations OF the earth.
Since he had been in England he had seen
American plants to which English skill and cui-
| ture had been applied, and they had attained a
degree of beauty and perfection which they
| never possessed in their native soil. IL hae
| afforded him the highest gratihcation to witness
| the beauty of the horses and stock exhibited
| that day. Agriculture in his country differed
| very much from that in England. In England
| the farmers went through course Of work
/ L.. g..
fury, and had only TO perfect what their forefath'
ers had handed down to them; the Americans
on the other hand, had TO graPple with the din
| culties of nature: to tame, subdue and render
useful the natural exuberance Of their exhaust
less soil. Nothing had struck him more since
he had been in England than the manner In
| which the fields were cultivated and weeded by
the hoe and tine hand. In America the trees
| were older than the roads-older than the towns
and, where spared, were the Oldest monuments
existing In the country. In England not an
animal was suffered to live, unless it could pro-
duce passport aad prove its right to be fdtt-neS
and fed. The farmers Of England cultivate.
| the soil beneath those beloved churches which
4 stood amid the graves Of their fathers, tina
seemed to shed a sacred influence on their toll
With the Americans, beneath whose blows tn
forests fell-with that moving and active PoPu
lation, those who now lived upon the soil wer
more numerous than all who slept beneath II
) There the agrIculturists, with the Instrument
of husbandry in their hands, were obliged &
erect school houses and churches, and Prepar
for competition with the mother country in a
that was calculated to promote the prosperity
mankind by the advancement Of religion, an
the cultivation Of science and art. In the nam
of every American he responded to the wis
, that peace might for ever prevail between IN
] two countries. Let it he hoped that the rela
e tons of commerce, and the interchange OF II
1 teligence between the cultivstors OF the soil
the two countries, would knit them together
! such bonds Of amity that no apprehensious Of
L rupture need be entertained. With these sent
G ments, uttered from his heart and soul, he r.
A sponded to the sympathy shown for his countr
and would conclude by praying for the pro
!, perity of the farmers Of England.