Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-11-27
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), BRAUTrU1. EXTRACT

The following beautiful extract is from afecent
address of Edward Everett, delivered before an
Agricultural Society; -.
Yet, Sir, ] am not of those who draw contrasts
between the town and country, as If the eityiW wa
nothing but, the abode of suffering anavice, and
the country as universally nthei home ofArcadian
Innocence. These are ideas which we get from
the novels we read IN our youth or from the de-
scriptonsofthe cities of Europe, where adltferent
state of society frm oursicxiSts. 0owper has gone
far as say ofthe cities Of the Old Worlds: lso
Good made the country and man made the town...i
In any practical sense of the words, town and
country were made by the same common father Of
hail; and in this part OF the world, 1ake The stAse
of society both as to material prosperity and moral
condition, to be about sgoodn thsstownsAg In the
villages. .qo,ssa tia-l. .sij ~ .f Esq g'il. 3rn
But, notwithstanding this, sir, must say that
for me there rand always has been an lndescfibas
BILE charm in rural e in these fertile aelds loaded
with the promise of spring, Ur the Ibountles 9of
harvest, these pastures alive with qcks and heIdss
| these broad meadows and woodlands hung with the
vatiegated Grapery of autumn, to which your secfe=
tary alluded ;seacht withits peculiar tut scars
let and orange, ard violet and gOld.i as the hanA
divine has touched with The same; pencil oak, OF
/ elm, or maple, or beech; the single farm houses
scattered by the road side the village school house
and villnge Spre; and in this part OF New EnglandS
the Queen of all her rivers, now neandenng
through alluyial plains now sweeping boluiy round
the base of majestic hills, now doshing over rocky
barrier or forcing It's way through mountain passes5
4 and all this made doubly grateful and sooting by
the rapid transition which the railways enabeuS to
make from the burning pavement and bewildsring
din of the thronged street TO the soft green and
II sacred rest of some pleasant country town.
4 But this, sir is not all. haga long known
n Northampton. i used to come here, IN my younger
II DAYS ito see my friends C6gswell and Bancrott,sat
| Round Hill; and i'm their refined and congenial
4 socetyJto enjoy your scenery andad the terlH
H lity of meadow, and uplnnd and hill, and forest
H But the emotions excited in my mind, at North
ompton, do not rest with the qualification Of taste
\ for the beautiful There is that In yo6fi
scenery which addresses higher principle, the
highest in our natures. j witnessed It IN all
power, this morning, asI droFein an open carriage
| with 4the' Governor and Lieutenant GovefnoEl
through iYSnf nng nifcent meadows. we. passett
first through sort ofvap6ry sea, which scented To-
snrge over the facesof tho plain; and as tmelted
into iairi tyou reoollect, gGAvernor,l called your
attention toll at the timel we saw, at q dlstancs
wreath aftefySfeath of silvery mist sosEly moving
side THE iiilI 1T seemed as II NatnIe1
with hefcouds ofincense, was doing hcmnge to the
nniuthin 1uniestY of Iolyoke Sparkling as he was
with dIadeln Of deWdrUpS and IObed m the pars,1
pIe of the morn. Il felt as if man, the ratonais
worshipper were bound to unite in vocal strains
adorauon with the silent anthems ot plain anu
stream and hill; and Iewas ready TO repeat tee
lloyely words which Milton puts into the imoathsot
our first pBrentss -' q - - 3a55. ~. ,.sis
aye MistS and Exhalations, that rse, 81,
From vale or streaming lake, duSk ~ OF gfey,. ,,ry
aTil the sun paints your heecy skirts gold
IN honor 10 the worlds great Auth6r,Tsei go
Whether TO deck with clouds the uncolored sky
Or wet the thirsty earth with falling showers,
Rising offalling still advance his Pralse' ~ -
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