The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1847-09-15


industry, have they not effected still more! And
now, let me ask, have the few employers ofoT sgri-
cultural resources, and inventors Of machinery fr
their development and multiplication. been reward,
ed Compare the fate Of Whitney with that Of
Arkwisht Whitney, the American farmers son.
the inventor Of the eoftoa gin, which has added,
said Judge John son, "hundreds Of mill ms to our
liona wealth, leh to out his life and his mean.
in defending his invention ae inst pirates; until said
the late Mr. Hopki 5, his friend and counsellor "af-
r thirty years my head aches to recollect his mar
ratves Of new ais, fresh dsappointments and &C.
cumulated wronss." On the other hand Arkwright,
the En-. lish barbers boy, inventor Of the spinning
jenny, (Which, but for the gin would never have been
called for) died with the title Of Sir Rchard Ark
wight and a fortune Of 81 500, 1000! And again
what have the great and powerful States Of New
York or Virginia, or the government, or egricul,u-
rsli OF the Union done for Buel or Rulfin two most
prominent leaders in the career Of agricultural pro-
cress What has the great and proud and boastiul
Empire State done, even for the memory Of one,
whose abols tended to lit tho business Of agcul-
ture from being regarded work Of brute force to
the dignity Of an Intellectual calling What has
Virginia jore in honor recompense Of him, who
b. bis researches and exposition Of the action and
value of manure, embedded in thousand exhaust
ed estates has pointed out the means Of restoring
them and added hundred of thousands Of bushels to
her impoverished granaries On the other hand
see. in England, the friends Of anoth-r's industry,
rewurdng Golden agi,ating in favor of free trade"
allied BY he press, compliment Of four or five hun
bred thousand dolars! What notice. permit me to en-
quire, will the people, the public councils Of the
South, take Of man who has lately fallen IN their
midst, aud in the midst Of his useiulness--hc la
mcntcd Camak !-of whom any 5 ate might be
proud, and whose scientific writings doing more
to fcriize the earth, and teneft mankind than oil
tie christian blood that will be shed on fields Of
battle, in the Of God and Liberty.
AIMS! sir, is il thus that our boast d republican
government of tho people" chiefly representing and
supported by landed interest," is to go on, forever i'm
i,ating monarchics, by US much abused, pincpa'-
ly, il not only their bcstowment If public education
aud liberal ay. and rank, and life commissions and
,nsions, on that arm Of the power, the militlry
which il is their interest TO uphold, TO preserve them
selves against the progress Of light and knowledge!
But to return, not for its sake, but for tile sake
of the cause, to the "Farmer's Library" for
which you are pleased 10 declare your preference,
without pretending for it, any such distinction j
it would be passing strange, were it not such an
one as ought TO BIO pcccd, for study, in the hands
of ercry one who is destined for his own or others
[ account. 10 have the direction and management oil
! agricultural labor and capital. What, sir-I may
be excused, after thirty years of unrcmited devo
ton TO this great and neglected concern, for ask.
ing the question--what are the guarantees to the
public, that in this work may be found the mos
recent and best lights that science and expericnc
can throw on the principles Of agricultural econo
- my; ard that hence il should he placed in III
It ,nds of all, and more especially the young me
W Of the country, who have the ambition TO rise
oil their profession above the level Of mere day Ia
'g bofeIs, aud TO pursue their ends with the prid
Or and security which accompany a knowledge u N
ID appropriate means Allow me TO answer, with III
cognizancc of some facts that none other may po.
G, IS, that the Editor Of the Farmers Library WI
n reared in The country conversant with and portic
m pating in the operations of Maryland farm
:, 700 acres, on which were combined in a remarl
>, able manner, every variety Of culture and staple
:. with that Of various manufactures as of foui
: leather, aud smith6ry, together with all the a,
, engagements and appliances breeding improved d,
II nestle animals Of all sorts. There too, were fir.
'e introduced or invented and used all the new in
re Plemcnts and processes and vegetables and mt
int. 81,
lie with such opportunities of personal and practice
IF observation, at tine Of life when the mind
perhaps the mos, nqtIisitive and acquislive, tn
v Editor of the Farmers Library may claim to hav
Inherited that overrung Partially for the genera
u subject, which led the proprietor of that estate
the late Frederick Skinner, Of Calvert county, I
, devour every newspaper essay and pamphlet o
, agriculture that came in his way and being thu
e imbued with his father, thirst for all that coul
enghten his pursuit, as soon afterwards as by tn
p Partially Of the truly llustrious Madison, and hi
! patriotic successor, he was confined to the dis
n charge of various important trusts, in large POP
Y ulous city he sought channel for the indulgence
ii Of his early and steadfast predictions, by IL
s. establishment, at his own cost, of the first, an
N journals in this country. Through that (the oil
Baltimore Amer. Farmcr) he distributed through
out the country, for ten years or MORE the bes
information then rNiant on the various branches O
y agricultural industry hut that information vall
u able as it was, when brought TO light, far iron
constituting the ri,ncs Of agriculture, consisted ra
+ Their of mass Of facts which it has been, and i
d the business of science 10 CcneraliZe, thence de
s duce the principles on which tcy depend, and Of
the knowledge of which, after all, agriculturis
must rely for anything like certainty, in the pro
duction of certain results. II would not, indeed
be easy, at this day, TO designate many results
=, Of value brought to light by the stcreotyped de-
. vices Of our agricultural societies, that were not
in like manner elected, aud in that journal record
cd, at that period. Rich land, and abundant ma
nurc, and high feeding, and large breeders, made