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

MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL CONVENTION.
A fen words to the Members Of the State .agri-
cultural Society.
Nav il not be hoped that results will be Ultimately realized
from the late Convention connected with the progress and
character Of Maryland agriculture, both Intellectually and
practically, decided and profitable make hereafter
matter interest have the of tracing these
suits their origin and their authors In some faint expec-
taon that such may bs the the official account of the
proceedings of the Convention shall be transferred from the
pages Of TIE american Farmer to those of Tie Plough tie
LOOM and tie AnrL-if not in the present, in early
subsequent NUMBER for preservation and reference And why
fain expectation, says the sanguine AMI confident young
reader Alas! il must say it, because the sad reccec
ton that such conventions have een held and
such societies Incorporated, and some SILL exist not only
in Maryland but all the way from the Coosawaachie Cape
Cod and yet the question arises after the lapse Of half
century that of these societies have existed what great
enduring Improvements in the agricultural productions and
condition Of these States clearly aceabe these socie
tics which would without them have been realized Nay,
where the evidences of such improvements in the
and circumstances of the soil and the cuvaos of the
soil, from the Chesapeake to the Mississippi
Look the state of agriculture in Old Virginia. ard the
number Of apparently suspicious efforts ameoration like
this which have been made in that State, blessed,
profuson with all that nature could do to render people
numerous and powerful polished and conspicuous for all the
glorious fruits that spring from high social POLITICAL and in
dusria development Recall TO mind the number of her
Conventions and the number of her agricultural societies.
and the great that have figured in their organization
wealth and prospects Of the Old Dominion corresponding with
the general march If the other pursuits and any
degree proporonae to her incacuae advantages in SOIL
climate ard natura resources her average agreeable pro-
duce in corn wheat OATS rye peas, beans potatoes barley
tobacco than it Fifty years ago Are her
under the perpetual influence Of cenipeal centrifugal
force Are the and daughters OF neighborng farmers
clustering and around their brthpaes marrying and being
given in marriage TO each other, their ncnaons
would draw hein and their virtues entite them
geter Is the area II cultivation in the aggregate rapidly
increasing being contracted Il the whole State, in
word, becoming more popuous more wealthy and
fined for these the nvariabe signs and concomans of
prosperous agriculture alas not Der moving
of, and her fair daughtcs-renowned the world for
king the best Of in their persons aabe in
their manners, intelligent spirited, benevolent and thrifty
they left around their mCthers when they ought all to
be mothers themselves And have agricultural soce
tesnumerous and they have been in the Caro-
Fnas and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the state of things from
taxing place in these States less favored Of Providence
Tn h contrary has there been general decline instead
OF general instead Of concentration,
eaVng Ont the large towns and the happy effects social
and POLITICAL that concentration always begets under ise
0ics? And ths brings the pobem-one which is
respectfully suggcned behooves you probe the bottom
ioAy IS s2 Is mo- because farmers and farmers societies
have begun with their and inquiries the wrong end
not that they have given large proportion OF these
cares and inquiries 10 the practice and lite to the poi
cal economy Of agriculture for permit respectfully sug-
gest that agriculture, If societies would but it. depends for
It's prosperity, and is subject 10 Decline from political inu-
ence much manufactures and are rising
and sinking these nfuences-thst is, the legislation
Of the country-happen TO be favorable nischevous
and If they would bring about general improvement;
they would old houses repaired, and ones built,
and the rich lands dtched and drained, instead Of still
further exhausting those that it, word, they
would brighten up the whole face Of the country, they
beake themselves 70 studying the political economy of The
plough! They think less about hour to fatten bulocks
and how to make bushe Of corn, wheat,
potatoes, turnips and about how
halter, the shoemaker the tailor and the smith, the IRON
and ha naaya ~ h..
provided in country buy Connecticut and Mas
sachuse, pay for and consume the bullock and the corn
wheat potatoes and urnps. Let them 60 into Massaehu
sct where the people have the sagacy draw sgeins the
very laws OF nature the iron from other States TO their aDv
the wool Ut other States their looms and the leather of other
States 10 their pones and there how lands selling
by the foot many miles out Of Boston there and only there
where you lind the loom and the BnvI by the side Of the
plough aud where bear large proportion pro-
ducer, will you three hundred varieties OF pears
grapes as large pgnuts and than thousand cut
esss plates and Dishes with countless variety Of magnificent
fruit displayed at single exhibition Among such people,
so concentrated, only will you have lately done,
teams Of only yoke Of oxen hauling in the way,
about the town Of lawrence wagon loads Of Pennsylvania
anthracite coal and loads Of ron weighing thar
thousand pounds Yes, my worthy friends IL you woch
open deep and enduring springs Of progressive mr
for Maryland husbandy, must go to the bottom, instead
Of beginning Of hetop Of existing difficulties you proceed
in the old way that societies have been doing for the last
fy yearscon sn with only Offering premiums for bushels
Of this and quarts OF thadeteora,ion and dispersion will
continue they have done all the while. You
the legislation Of the country by concerted influence you
must force yourselves be heard and respected you
insist that colonial vasalsge 10 England shell be utterly
broken up that shall be independent Of her in fact
well as IN name, and that policy shall be established that
viii leave undisturbed the natural tendency Of
blne TOR mutual interests and leave them that cohesive
traction which every where exists between the plough, the
loo and the anv-an attraction from which every
blessing that combination Of power mental and physical can
secure you go on putting your exclusive reliance
expedenson Offering silver gobets and pepper diplomas
have repeated again what has boon accomplished thousand
times, and what every knows BE- accomplished again
ysGr will continue from necessity desert their hores
and 60 dag out their existence song strangers and If
you do not 90 yourselves your daughters will continue at
home read romances and dream OF thousand things they
realize To undertake sgricunfa s,ne
nation, by Offering dollar cups alone, (wei enough and
comrnendable and useful in their way,) may be tiy
compared TO the conduct Of him who should attempt restore
lie TO dying ny spuslng It's branches with whale oil
sosp, when sspped BY tho ravascs Of sns snawing il
root; or to that Of miller who should undertake stop
ieek IN his dam by throwing dit on the OUTSIDE!
With these very hasty thou ghs hastily expressed in
steamboat The river approaching New Haven, and in the
midst OF much noise and CONFUSION, shall send back the
hopipc