Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1852-11-05
Address of Hon. VIM. H. Seward


Address Of Hon. VIM. H. Seward
To The Vermont State Agricultural Fair.
Ex. Gov. Seward, Of New York, after
alluding to the early history of Vermont,
its natural advantages, aud the proofs Of
her industry and prosperity around him,
said-To improve agriculture is wise; for.
as is the culture of the fields and fiocks in
any community, 50 is always the culture
of the men and women by whom it is be-
slowed. He considered it essential that
the business of the farmer should be made
more lucrative. 1t was equally necessary
in farming as in other pursuits, to substi-
tute mechanical power for human labor.
A constant and uniform relation must
always be maintained between the state
of agriculture, and indeed Of society and the
cotempOraneous state of invention In tue
arts. lie alluded to the comparative con-
dition of American industry as exhibited
at the Worlds Fair, and argued the neces-
sity Of increased attention to manufactu-
ring interests. If farmers would distin-
guish the generation to which they belong,
they must have wiser and m ire eulight-
ened system of agriculture This prevail
ing Indifference to agricultural science can
not be suffered to continue Other nations
are busy in improving their systems of
agriculture, and will continue to improve,
and We must not neglect to follow, or still
better, take the lead. There is no lack of
schools or professors adapted and qualified
for advancing agriculture. The greatest
want is that of pupils No one wishes to
study aariculture-the farmers sons are
adverse to it generally. They do not in
tend to pursue the calling--the prejudice
against farming is hereditary. The far
mer himself is not content with his occu-
patton, nor his wife any more SO. They
regard it as an humble, laborious, toilsone
one; they fret about its privations and
hardships and thus uneonsciously create a
disgust for it ia their children's minds.
The prejudice, however, must be expel-
led from the farmers ireside and the
farmer and his wife must do this them
selves. 1t is as true in this case as in the
more practical one which the rustic poet
had in views
'The w!f. too must husband, we'll as the man,
Or iare"e!l thy husbandry, do what thou can
Let them remember that in well con-
stituted and highly advanced society like
ours, intellectual cultivation relieves men
from labor, but it does not at all exempt
them from labor, but it does not at all ex-
empt them from the practice of industry;
and that Notwithstanding the current use
of the figures Of speech, " wearied limbs,
sweating brows, hardened sinews, and
rough and blackened hands" there is no
lvocaticu in our country that rewards so
literally with health, wealth and honor, a
given application Of well-direeted industry,
Is does that of the farmer If he is sur
passed by persons in other pursuits, it is
not because their a-ocations are preferable
o his own, but because, while he has ne
elected education and training, they took
are to secure both.
When these convictions shall have en-
cred the farm house, its responsibility and
ignity will be confessed. Its occupants
iii regard their dwellings and grounds
ot as scenes of irksome and humilia-
ing labor, but as their own permanent
ONE, and the homestead of their children
nd their posterity. Affections unknown
eforc, and newborn emulation will sug-
est motives to improvement, embellish-
lent, refinement, with the introduction of
seful and elegant studies and arts. which
i'll render the paternal roof, as it ought
} be, attractive to the young, and the far
ier's life harmonious with their tastes. c
nd satisfactory to their ambition. Then I
lie farmers sons will desire and demand q
lucation as liberal as that now chiefly '
inferred on candidates for professional a
fe, and will subject themselves to disci- I
ine, in acquiring the art of agriculture, r
rigorous as that endured by those who /
,prentice themselves to other avocations. :
The speaker alluded to the political e
'wer in the hands of farmers, and the n
lportance of intelligence, wisdom and t
rtue to secure its right use. The ex- 4
nson of our country will, year by year, :,
Il for increased attention to the ceaserv-
i've interest. 81
Col. ISAAC WAYNE, the only son of =,
ajor General Anthony Wayne, of the
War, died on Monday last T
his residence in Chester county, in the >,
d year of his age. Col. Wayne was al 6
cellent citizen and we'll worthy of the :
name he BORE In early :
aes he took prominent part in The pol . .
IS of the State, and was formerly in the =,
ate Senate, besides holding other Offices. q,
, was also the candidate for Governor of -,