The Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1850-1852, 1852-09-16

4 inddsssy I NJ - snJG " n
ias the current sse 'of ~ agsssa II |
speech, ''wsarisd = limbs, .swsatius
brows, hardened sinexs,. and rough
and blackened hands," ,bere u no
avocation in our country tha, rewards
so literally with health, wealth and
honor given application Of well.di-
rec,ed industry, az does the farmer.
If he ia surpassed BY persons 10 o.l.>
or countries, it s not because their
avoca.ions arc preferable to his own,
but because, while he has neglected
education and training, they took
care to secure both.
When these convictions hail have
entered the farmhouse, its respectal
bility and dignity will be confessed -
Its occupants will regard their dwell
lings and grounds not q scenes of
irksome aud l,urniliating labor, but
as their own permanent home, and
the homestead Of tn. ir children aud
their posterity. Affections unknown
before, and new born emulation will
suggest motives to Improvement, en-
belhshment, refut ment. with the in.
troduslion of useful and elegant stu
dies and arts which will render TIE
patcrnal root, as it ought to beat
trac.ive to the young, and the farm.
Eers life harmonious with thcii tastes,
and satisfactory to their ambHion.--
Then tie farmers sons will desire
aud demand education - liberal a.
that now chiefly conferred on candi.
dates for professional life, and will
subject themselves to discipline, in
acquiring the art Of agriculture, ~
that endured BY those who aprrcn-
tice themselves TO other vocat oas.
Then with the certain itnpro ycment
of agriculture, We shall have the m
provement and elevation Of the asri.
cultural class Of American socicty.-
Have you considered how much that
class rcnounce ia denying themselves
the sclf-improvcments | have urged
Have you considered that In practice
they widely renounce tho functions
Of representation 10 the conduct OF
the Government ia favor Of other
classes, no more privileged than their
own? This is unnecessary, :.nwise,
unsafe indeed, it is not Rel rtlican,
it Is not A,nericnn. IN nearly all
civilized States the farmers, or those
who cultivated the soil, have cons,i.
tuted far the greater part Of the IoI,
ulatlon The chief control Of society
and Government then, it would seem
should Of n.ht have been vested IN
them. Vet in truth, they have new
cr since the age Of the ratriarchs
attained any such control, except sis'
here, aud just now. In Great Brit
ain, they divide authority, but arc
overbaianccd by merchants, manu-
facturers, and privileged clseses,- -
Notwithstanding modern constitution
al concessions to them in France,
! they are nevertheless ruled there al
ternately by the city population and
the army. In Germany, by the ar
my. Ia parts Of Italy, by the Church
aud in Russia they are slaves.
1t has always been otherwise here,
Farmers planted these colonies---al
Of them, and organized their govern
nents. They were farmers who de
fed the British soltiisry on Bunker
Hill, and drove them back from Lex
inston. They were fsrmers--ayc
Vermont farmers. who captured ths
fortress Of Iiconderoga and accepted
its capitulation ia the name Of tn,
Great Jehovah and tue Continent,
oil Congress-" and thus gave oyer ,h'
first fortified Tost to the cause Of th,
Revolution. They were farmers wht
checked British Eower at Saratoga
and broke it in pieces like o pouey''
vessel al Yorktown. They we're far
mers WHO recognized sbe severn
Stsscs and the Federal Government,
and established thcla oil On the psin.
ciIles Of equality and aikiistion. Ia
every State. and in the ~hole Union
|, they constitute the broad electoral
faculty, ard BY their rreponderatine
ruftsses the vast snd eooplex ma.
chine 10 i=rretually sustained and
kept in regular motion aud opera,ion.
That it is 10 the main, well Adsissis'
tered We oil know by experienced se.
curly and hspIiness , ,Ass il nigh,
10 better ADMINISTERED, sov perpetual
and intense passio,. fss change fsily
proves |; that il 10 administered no
better, ress'.s from What! FIps the
faet thst the electoral Loly--ihs far
m<rs, intelligent and patriotic a they
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