The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1851-01-18
fe.ter from Rumlan0spilIe.
Correspondence Of The Cecil WI,

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RowLANDsvrLLE, JAN. 18th 1851.
Il Defence Of tie Farmers-a SLASH a,
Observation-Disclosures "Son-
MES"
Mr.. Editor:-Your correspondent, w,
appears to have left for ''parts unknown
since his SANDER in the Wing of 2sth of
Dec, on the farmers Of this vicinity in
particular, and every where else in gen
eral. Accordingto bis refined notions
they, are set of denizens who have no
pretensionsto tidiness, no taste or neat
ness whatever. From the tenor of his
letters, | would infer that he is some
popinjay of town or city, who has been
reading pastorals or rural poetry and
came out in mid-winter to spend his
holidays in the country; expecting to
find green lawns and verdant groves;
but in place of those, his sensibilities
are shocked by coming in contact with
hog-troughs and other unsightly objects.
He then takes it upon himself to read
the unrefned farmers lesson on slove-
illness; when the probability is, your IT,
dy correspondent who
s-talks so like waiting gentlewoman,' %
finds himself in bed every morning at
sunrise-the worst kind of sloveliness
imaginable. He talks that the grounds
fronting the farm-houses, are made a
common depot for all the trumpery i'm
aginable; such as hog-troughs, logs of
wood, etc. This mag be true IN some
instances, but as a general thing it is not
Perhaps he has seen the wood-pilc,
which is commonly at this season of the
year, in the INN ed late vicinity of the
farmers kitchen door, and unsecmly as
it may appear is very desirable object,
notwithstanding; and brings to memory
bright fires and social chats with some
fair Judy if you choose.
And, as to the pig troughs, the far
mers generally consult utility and their
own Inconvenience in adjusting this use
FIJI appendagc of the farm, rather than
the taste of struggling sentimentalists.
If your correspondent lives in town, |
can't imagine how he endures the sight
of filthy cutters which skirt the side
walks in close proximity to his door,
too; and are ten times worse than any
flth or mire that | have ever seen about
a farm yard.
If you will send your doughty cores
pondent out among the farmers in June
in place of December, he will find to
his establishment doubtless, that their
taste for the beautiful has not become
entirely blunted, by associating with ug-
ly objects, which he seems toimaginc must
be the case; but that they can appreciate
green-yards, planted with trees and
shrubbery, and trellised arbours, fes-
TONED with flowers and vines;
"For talking age and whispering lovers made"
But your correspondent, opine, is like
the noble ambassador the king sent to
Hotspur demanding his prisoners, who,
"-but for these vile guns
Would himselfhave been a soldier"
If it were not for the viIe work. perhaps
your correspondent would be farmer
and indulge that taste Of his for rural
beauty. We will now bid him good
by assuring him that the Octararo far
mers can dispense with his unsought adj
vice as we'll as his refined company.
| am pleased to see by the Cecil pa
pers, that an effort is being made in
your town to revive the old Washington
niau temperance society under better
organization than formerly, hope.
The Sons Of Temperance have taken
the cause wholly in their own hands for
some six or eight years past; but can't
see that it has advanced any since the
private temperance society confded it
to their care. Something more open, is
requisite to combat the evils of intcm-
perance, than that clap-trap secret in
stitution which appears to have degen-
Grated into a criycling humbug.