Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-08-28
OUR MINISTER IN ENGLAND.

AT the dinner of the Royal Agricultural Society
at Northampton, on the 22d ulimo, Mr. BANcRoFT.
the American Ambassador, upon the health of "the
Foreign Ministers being given, made (says Lon
don paper the following graceful speech:
He said that he could hardly find words express his gra-
ude for the kind manner in which his country had been al
luded to- Although the Minister of foreign country he was
not altogether stranger in that meeting for nature had es
abshed bonds OF union between the farmers of every nation
on the face OF the earth The shone upon them
all the same seasons they returned furnished the seed
time and rpened the harvest The celestial influences 10
which he must look for blessing his exertons might well
blend in the breast of the husbadman with that spirit of bro
thehood which had made the ers OF the SOIL especially
those OF AngloSaxon origin the guardians of freedom and
of peace Wherever the councils of the cuya-
tors OF the soil prevailed there certain that nations would
dwell IN peace Nor was that the only point which for
egn nations found themselves interested in societies of this
kind Wherever he turned his eyes he behed evidence of the
spirit of enterprise and Improvement which distinguished the
people of this country They ed every cline of fruit and
flowers to enhance the value of their Everywhere you
had evidence of the combinations Of interest which connected
together the nations Of the 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 degree of
beauty and perfection which they possessed in their
tive SOIL It had afforded him the highest qualification wit
ness 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 through course of
work which had been continued from century century, and
had only to perfect what their foreahers had handed down
to them the Americans, the other hand had to grappe
with the difficulties OF naureto tame subdue and render
useful the natural exuberance Of their exhausess SOIL No
thing had struck him he had been England than
the in which the fields cultivated and weeded by
thah 4 At L..
the roadode than the towns-and where spared were the
Oldest monuments existing in the country. In England not
animal suffered to live unless could produce pass
port and prove lis right TO be aened and fed The farmers
of England cultivated the soil beneath those beloved churches
which stood amidst the graves of their fathers seemed to
shed sacred influence their toll. With the Americans
beneath whose blows the forests fe-wh that moving and
active population those who lived upon the soil were
than all who slept beneath it. There the
agricuusts with the instruments Of husbandy in their hands,
obliged schoohouse and churches and prepare
for competition with the mother country in all that was cacu-
lated promote the prosperity of mankind by the advance
of religion and the cultivation Of science and art In the
of every American he responded the wish that peace
might forever prevail between the countries Let be
hoped that the relations of and the interchange in
egence between the cuvaors Of the soil in the two countries
would knit them together in such bonds Of amty that no ap-
pehensons of rupture need be entertained. With these
sentiments uttered from his heart and SOUL he responded to
the sympathy shown for his country, and would conclude by
praying for the prosperity Of the farmers of England,