Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-11-11

saneune hopes the most sangune entertain from the for
nation Of State society may be realized Proposing to be
among you at the Fair the 9th, brighten with old friends
the chain Of our ancient regards and what is quite
easy at our time oe TO make many new Ones we bid you
adieu-au repoir. The Convention, like the Society,"
formed Of men of the finest spirit and the highest degree Of
intelligence Reader your eye the Names and say
be possible that want Of practical knowledge is the cause
that agriculture does not go ahead in counties where such
men reside What, them is needed Want Of concentre-
ton and variety OF employment How these 10 be effect
ed Not by sending our wool TO be wove and our cotton to
be wove in foreign looms not by importing the coal that is
dug and the iron that manufactured in other countries by
men who eat the bread of other countries.
One word more Unite with Mr.. Colt eminent citizen
of New Jersey who last winter in vain petoned Congress
To appropriate for each State four thousand Of the
public lands for the purpose Of agricultural education under
State authority Since the public domain acquired by The
blood and treasure of the old States to become prey
squattes from every region the GLOBE becoming themselves
in turn the prey Of land obb and spectators why
secure of it, while yet may, for the noble and
prasewohy that be made Of property Of any kind
r. Gen. Jesup said Ono doubt try,) he could pine
the whole militia of the Uited States in sixty days. why
might not in like manner, the agricultural labor of the
try be dreced with equally Increased efficiency, by Of
educated in knowledge Of the sciences that essentially
belong practical agriculture Here, then, objects
worthy Of your deepest contemplation and most determined
efforts But lei the demand be first created at home, and all
helest will follow and, without that the rest is all " but
leather or prunea" In the emphatic words of address
which has just fallen under notice. allow us conclude
this hasy but friendly warning "When people, by pro-
tecing their industry, become independent Of all the
world then, and not I'LL then, they be said under Pro-
whence to control their own destines, and take rank
with the first in the great fanily Of nations
Wehave been appreherave, judging from what have
Of their proceedings, at agricultural societies have
lied exclusively the influence Of premiums for fat things
and large animals and heavy crops single acres the
great not the only within their reach Of nsurng pro-
gress in agricultural improvement and have sensiby fell
the obligation them Of the necessity of taking deeper
and comprehensive view of the subject that begin
fear that may lave laid ourselves liable to the
on of being altogether opposed TO such exhibitions as have
been held in States for the last thirty years at least
Now, the contrary heartily approve OF them, but not
much To the great end in view to demonstrate
the practical and profitable result Of elcacou
and thorough What lament is, that farmers should thus
together in great numbers and thus separate again and
again. without any interchange Of thought and reflection
the in which they and their interests and substance
made subservent to other classes and without any attempt
the dcvisng the Of producing that concentration
of population and diversity Of labor among themselves
which draws the loom and the anvil to the plough
within the smoke of the farmers chimney settlements
fo his children ard markets for his produce such have
lately in New England, where small stream of only
five miles in length, greatly nenor 70 many of tue mountain
Of Virginia, drives less than eleven factories
We have been than chagincd have been Disguised
seeing the tamenes with which farmers, and those who
represent them in societies and in Congress, submit,
without daring TO complain, the payment Of seventy five
pr of their for military establishments and military
Instruction. without appearing have the knowledge the
demand something f instruction, (not in the
satisfies which may be had from the journals of the day. bat
i, the principles Of their profession.