The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1851-11-29
The Farmers Convention.

W OTaENilc, lalnaln county, last week, The Object
- OF which was to adopt some feasible plan to he
presented AZ the next session Of our legislature "a
- induce that bSiy to establish 4 State A-yic4..u
raj College at some suitable place IN the State.
I'rot Turner, of jacksonville, was present and
delivered very able address on the subject. \
State Committee was appointed to call meeting
r. OF the friends Of the measure Together 1t Sp..uS-
Held during the session OF the legislature. Prof
= Turner consented to write out lbs remarks and
plan Tor the es'a biishment O.. the College fur pub
ilc"ton-ior which purpose twenty dollars were
raised TO deiray the expense Ot printing 1000 cop.
u les, together with the proceedings Of lie t.te,uy
d for public distribution
We are informed that considerable discussion
grew out Of resolution, introduced ty Mr. I!i,e.
> Recommending that the editor Of the Pee Irllr
; aud all other papers, be requested 70 publish thr
n proceedings. Mr. Reddick, We are told, although
. politically allied with the above paper, opposed
the resolution with considerable zeal lie dI
not wish to see anything that would saver fpar.
tysm, creep into an agricultural meeting. and #
It was desirable 20 preserve harmony, al s1ch
attempts should be nipped in the bud After sun
dry other remarks by different speakers, the res
o!uiion was amended ard carried hy striking ont
the name Of the Free Trader and inserting in is
I stead, the Prairie Farmer.
ut may rot be amj,s here 10 state, that the
attractions which generally induce the junior Of
the Free Trader to attend these agricultural fairs
IN Putnam county. are something more than Int
hogs and fine cattle. Asam9tttr fc1urse these
frequent excursions must be attended with consii
cradle expense. Therefore 10 as isl IN meeting
these OUTLAWS, what wonder that onr friend should
take the opportunity when IN rrr'tut.rli fair
Is to be seen. Of Negotiating him-efinto the good
opinion of the yeomanry, by acting is sec,e'arv
examiner OF needle work, inspector cf Young
calves, or in other ulomen,ous capacity bg which
he may he embed to fore,iall the actiol Of the
finance committee, AM thus secure whs,eyer
crumbs Of patronage may follow in the way Of
prlatin. =
NrGrjney knew nothing Of this convention un-
.. after tie delegates from this vicinity returned.
anu then calls il an a -ricuturai Meeting" lie
says be understands there was a meeting Of far
HaeEs, & Vow, E; is certainly as.oai,L.n, ,hl,
tie editor u = paper, which depends upon the
farming community for Is, least rhree.four,hs oft.
scP9ort should have remained totally guoran,
Of q matter C.! 50 mash Importance To so large a
class ellis patrons especially a5ec il had been /.
4.!1led 10 siil commented upon BY nearly every 4
psPer 10 his section Of tie s,lte-A call far TIL, 2
eo-ycn,iJH signed by eleven q the most respect. =,
able aaI .ad-ca,.-I citizens in northern and cen. =
tai Illinois, was p1b.Ished 10 ,l.is paper i've Il
weeks, and vas copied by num5,r Of other pa. b
peTs IN various parts Of tie state, anl vet, tie v
editor Of the Cyns,itg,Oulls auew nothing Of i, IA
unit. after the convention had ajourned and then, q
only, understands that an agricultural J(e.t'ng"
had been held, &c. Calls this convention. a,
which nearly half the state was represented for &c
the purpose Of appropriatiug over three k,udred o
thousand dollars exclusively for the benefit Of. f
the farmers Of this state by the insignificant; "a
name Of IAN agricultural meeting" We should Ct
think the farmers who patronxe that paper would "
not feel much fa,cred with the care ts editor II
Gestows upon their interests. p,
1t is an old saying. when a man talks about
what he knows nothing about he makes an ass Of y
himself" and never was any thing more beautifully
verified than this maxim in the remarks above p
quoted. We nllude particularly to that part re. a
ierIing to the resolution introduced by Mr. ise'
As we were present at the convention, we took ct
pains to minute the proceedings upon this sub CT
ject and shall give them here 10. the especial en-
ligh;enmen! Of our beuighteI neishbcr with u
hope tia: ha may not again be imposed upon by +,
some s;ragglcr who had his information second Ii,
Or th!rl handed. The resolution was one Of
series, drawn up by Prof Turner, the original /. !
IN our possession.) and read a. follows: y,
Resoiyef, That we approve Of the general plan
for an Illinois state University for the Industrial te
Classes, presented by - and re. ,h
quest him to furnish the outlines Of his plan pre-. nj
'ened TO this convention, to the committee Of Dub.
cation, for publication in the Prairie Farmer and sd
Ottawa Free Trader and all other papers in this ce
state which will publish the same and that one th
thousand copies be puUlshedin pamphlet form l,r Tia
sratutous distribution su
As Prof rs was the only plan presented Of te
course. he did not wish to offer the resolutions rs
The blank would have to be filed By his own name u
and, therefore, handed them to Mr. Hise, who
offered them to the convention pl
On motion of Mr.. r Ware, Prof Turner's name CT
WAS inserted in the blank.
Mr., Reddick then said he did not think It good
policy, to designate the Free Trader since there til
were three other papers printed in tue the coun n,
~, and as they desired them all to publish their
proceedings, If they raned one, The others might a.
not do It. al
Prot Turner said that when he wrote the re- Ct
solutions, number Of hi, friends had told him .
that the editors Of the Free Trader had taken :,
more interest IN agricultural affairs than those of
any other paper IN this section Of the state and
that they felt it their daty to bestow this distnc IN
ton upon their paper That he had inserted the 3
Free Trader into the resolution at their solicitation
Mr.. Hise also thought 1t would be better not TO
name either Of the papers in the county, and mo.
we'd that the resolution be amended so AS to read III
by the Prairie Farmer and all other papers in Of
I'll state ,
Nj. Grebc could see no improperly in leaving -
the Free Trader in the resolution; aud was on. co
POSED to the amendment. VI
We then stated that we had no desire 10 have ii,
our pap.r singled out from the rest in the county.
as there existed a delicacy among editors upon ",
matter Of that kind. the Others might take ex. 2!
cepions TO 1t that We had attended the conyen. ha
ton to secure It's proceedings and should publish ma
them anyhow and were IN favor of the amend. :,
mcnt offered by Mr. Hse. !"
Mr.. 5. Shepherd, however, was opposed to 70
striking out the name Of the Free Trader. The tn
convention included half the state, and although liza
there were number of papers printed nearer =,
there than Ottawa yet the Free Trader was the VI
only one represented. aud he was for doing ohon. IA
or TO whom honor was due, :" and he be fol
llevcd that this Sigh, mark Of distinction was due nm
the editors o. that paper at any rate
Mr.. Reddlek, who seemed to bc u little sourcd o'
at something that occurred the day before, then du