Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1851-10-03
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! LADIES AND HLNILLMEN'
BY the bylaws OF the Agricultural Society of
the county OF henosha, il is made my duty 10 ad-
dress YOU
We have met under circumstances at once
novel and interesting novel, from the fact that
not one OF us who are here participating in this
agricultural exhibition is a native of the soil we
.ahaut.
Nrnay" cone uot ou., from the -ev-ra, states
81 ttr' Am ucau Union. bat almost every coun-
Try t.. E.c.pr has ."r. is rrpr. sentaHvcs. From
,he green Isle o Erin. they ar, here; from the
cuuky yatl> o England they are here: from
ia" zach lands ami the low lands of Scotland,
lhoy are mere: from the sunny banks of the
Rhine; from the ylnc-ciad hills Of France; YEA.
and from the irr-boupd coasts of Sweden. and
of Norway. thev are hero. pres ,ntiur the inter
c>Uug spectacle OF a people di~s,mi,ar in Ian
pua 20. education and habits. harIurni,usIy uni
tug for the uIbuildn. of sovereign state un-
der the broad banner of republican indepeud-
cuce
\ practical commentary. thi,. on mans cana
civ for selt-goyernment.
Oar uraqress hitherto has been unriyaIIed =
4 few Short years AGO. our fields. now wayiny
with the golden harvest, law in ali the original
solitude of Nature, uudi,tnrbad by the foot of
man, save the occasional stca!thy tread of the
red man of the forest.
Now how CHANGED the scenr-our hin TONS
and oar prajrips dotted all OVER with comfnrt, hlo
dwellings: school house, in every peighhorbood.
cities have snruur up aIonr our borders iptar-
raj improvements como on to snccnssfnl com.
p!etion; the magnetic telegraph the GREAT mar
raLUDl of the BODY politir. has shot across the
trail of the SAVAGE: commerce j. nolIrinr in mn.
on Us the products of other chimes. and we are
ENJOYING all the BLESSINGS Of a refined civiIiya-
ton.
Whence all this prosperity These unequiv-
ocai signs of progress! The foundation of it
all is Agriculture 1t is Agriculture that treichts
our steamboats,, swel> the sail of commerce.
pays tor our imports, nerves the arm of our me-
, chdWcS.
Without Agriculture, mankind would be say
ages, tlniy scattered through interminable for
e>tS.
Yet, notwithstanding lis vast importance in a
physical point of view, to the well-beino of the
human race, the science of Agriculture las bnnn
the last TO teel the influence and receive the i'm
pulse OF our modern crusade after Hrht and
knowledge. 1t is true, poets have sang the pra-
seS OF agriculture from the time of VIRGIL down
to the present dav; politicians have been enthu-
sastic in their admiration of it, and have taken
great pains to shake hands with the hard-fsted
yeomanTy, particularly on the eve OF an impor-
'ani election; executive messages from year to
year are regularly lnteriarded with eulogcs up
on II ana ye'' ''F ali 'h'N nothing mas been done
oy ''e'Siau'e enactment 70 raise II TO level
VIA Tue o'ler SCIENCES Inc State has done
"o'Hl"S IoE inc edUcaaoh OF It's children Tor tar
h,FS. II IS true we nave IN prospect an ample
school fund, but no law regulating its appIca-
uon' oar children should De educated with ref