The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1853-10-18
City and CoIntry-brcd People.

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the Agricultural Association Of Montgomery
county, Maryland delivered at Rockville, on the
S:h instant, from which we give an extract that
may be read with pleasure and profit:
Men who have made fortunes III our cities, be-
Gin now TO appreciate the value Of country hte,
however avcrse or ulsultcd to it they may have
been rendered bv habit: The common guide
book of Paris which is put into every travellers
hands. has this note under the head Of popula-
ton "Fanilies constantly residing in Paris
soon become extinct. The effects Of this NOR
taty are observed to be more active upon males
than upon females" What is true Of Paris Is
true Of every city in the world. There is not,
probably. a man in I1oadon, Paris, New York or
philde phia, who can say that his great-grand
father his grand father, and his father, success
svely lived and died in the city of his residence.
There is no such thing as the survivor Of three
generations that have undergone the decompos-
inc pc wer of city atmosphere, assisted by city
pursuits. y city, then, may be said to die put
once in a hundred and fifty years, so far as re-
CARDS those rooted generations that live, and
move and have their being only in city's pre-
cincs. Whoever, then, would have succession
in lis family-that desires to transmit his name
and wealth by pcrpctuatinG his race-should at
some period of his life take his leave Of walls and
pavements, AMI crowded tllosouglfares, and fix
his abode in the midst Of the rustlng foliage,
the grten fields, clear streams, and sweet ar, un-
tainted by stagnat;on in tle walled streets and
alleys and sewers.
There is another observation in regard TO cities
which induces thoughtful men, who take pride
in their rosterity, to remove from them when
they have accomplished the objects for which
they are sought. How many millions Of chill
lren educated in cities with fhe utmost care,
have passed away without reaching distinction
among his countrymcn. 1t is remarkable that
children born in cities, generally exhibit pre-.
every species Of learning they are stimulated
to exercise in the schools by pride, vigilance and
sol;c;udc, which is spirited up by the stirring
society around they lave the advantage of i'm
Lbng an early knowledge Of the worIl, aud
have almost in infancy the manners the ideas,
and scIi:possession of polished society. But al.
though The great cities of the Old World and Of
the New World send forth probably one hun
drcd of these fully educated Youths TO test their
strength in the high pursuits Of life, for one
country adveutnrrr, vet it is found that almost
all the Distinguished men who shine in the SER
vice of the country or in the liberal Professions
are country born and bred.
The hot.bcd> of cities bring forward their
plants more rapidly; but those sprngng from
the native soil, and Drawing the rude SCISSORS
and rongh culture Of the country, are found to
have the best stamina. Look over the list Of
great mcn vino fl cured in our revolution, and it
will be- found that almost to man they were
countrv~born and bred. Search the annals Of
the revolution in England from the i'm of the
lst Charles to the 81 William. These were the
times that that tried the souls of men in the
mother country. The French revolution filed
Paris with innumcrablc great men, the offspring
ofthc provinces. If We scan our own quiet times
whence come the iNstrious men who have filled
the chief ma@i>trv, and given fame to Congress
and our State Legislatures: | do not know one
that his not made his way from some rural dis
trict to the high places Of the republic. And
so, too, it h;ls been with our great merchants
and mechanics who have fourishcd in cities 4;
trace them, and you will find that the impulse
that gives them this lead brought them from the
fields Of some village totry their fortunes in the
city. The men who thus build themselves up
in the marts of business, have generally the Sa'
gacty to see that life in the country is the natu-
ra state, that i'll the city al artificial existence
and if not too much possessed with the spirit OF
getting, WHICH gain is too apt to engcnder, they
retire to the scene from which they emerged
This is particularly s1narked in public men,
who almost invariably seek to close their career
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monument From this feeling We have our
Mt. Vernon, Monticello, Montpelier, tue iIcrmi,
tagc, Ashland, Marshtield, and Fort Hill. And
how natural the wish of every independent na-
ture to have homc-a little domain where It's
offspring may have space to grow to full stat
urc, where the moral character NAV hc formed
on its cherished principles, where the agc and
nrmity of the declining head may have the re-
qurcd privacy and rcposc, and where the pros
poet Of the grave itself is soitencd by the sense
that it would often bc viewed 10y fond and kin
drcd eyes The idea Of II hereditary palriarchal
home brings u thousand cndcarng associations
with it, both to parents and children, and the
affections which grow up in it become part
of it. A sellse of this makes the posse$sor
labor to improve ito impress his own CHAR
aclcr upon it; to adorn it with tastc-to en-
rich it with fruit. and to hand down his memo
" in every permanent cditce he may build,
and every noble tree he may plant; and with
the concousness that he will be blended in the
! thoughts Of his children, who are to succeed
him in tine enjoyment Of the blessings he thus
prepares for them, he will seem TO enjoy him
self through Il long futurity.
CARDs.-Thcy were too thrilling for me
when w;,s grave, and too dull when was