The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1853-10-14
FARMERS READ!

FARMERS READ!
i The following eloquent remarks we find il
an address of Mr.. CURTIS delivered at NEE
ting of the U. s. Agricultural Society a
Washington, D. c. on the I'd of Februar,
last. Such remarks have tendency to max
agrculturists regard their profession with
deeper reverence, and pursue it with create
zeal. Read it by all means.
Ye generous Americans, "venera,e the
plough" the truest emblem of every nation.
greatness! Reward with your honors the
Heroes Of Peace! Adorn with the civic wreath
the brow of the conqueror who has vanquish.
ed ignorance and prejudice and dispersed the
clouds of error, to let in the sunlight of i'm.
provement, prosperity, and national aggran.
dizement! The blameless trophies of the
victor in peace are industry, economy, indi-
vidual and social happiness. On the victori-
Gus fields of agriculture are strewn none of
the wrecks of humanity; flowers spring up
there, shedding a sweet perfume and waiting
grateful incense to heaven. Then "speed
the plough, and onward be the march of i'm
proyement till every rood of earth will main
tain its mani"
Agriculture, the primitive employment of
man, has been honored in all nges Of the
world. We learn from ancient history that
in the purest and palmest days of Roman
virtue, when Dictator was required to save
the Commonwealth, Cincinnatus was cho-
sen from between the handles of the plough
The great men of America, when their
terms OF public service have been accomplish
ed, have all returned to the rank of private
citizens: and has the lustre attending their
public actions been dimmed when, resigning
hi n official stations, they have retired to pri
vate life to spend the evening of their days
amid the calm vet endearng delights of ag-
ricullure and rural affairs! And he, the most
beloved, when his glorious career of public
service was ended, and stricken in years and
laden with honOrs he too became q private
citizen, was the veneration of his country
and mankind in any wise lessened toward the
Pater Patrie, when the Chief Magistrate ofa
mighty empire became merged with the illus
trious farmer of Mount Vernon! [Cheers. !
Then "speed the plough" and respect the
citizen who patiently tils the soil. Remem-
Der, the farmer is not bird of passage, but
is riveted to the soil he tills; his life all CEN
tres in his peaceful and happy home; and
when wars alarms shall threaten his country,
| tits then the husbandman "will show his gen.
erous nature" 'Tis he who looks around
him and behclds the smoke as it curls up from
his comfortable homestead, who sees
"Thebusy housewife ply her evening care,
While children run TO lisp their sire's return,
Or climb his knee the enved kiss to share"
With all these blessings at his back, think ye
not the husband will defend them against a
ruthless invader! My life on it but he will;
and, let an invader come from where he may
he will be cautious how he rouses lion in
such a lair!
We have proud and gallant "reminiscences
Of the value of the husbandman in war from
the annals of the heroic age. Unite the
scroll of fame that tells of "the times that
tried mems SOULS" and you will find emilia
zoned in characters that can never fade, Lex
ington, Concord, the Heights of Charlestown
in the North; with the Great Bridges in Vir
gina and the Kings Mountain in the Caroli
mas. In these memorable combats the hus
bandman appeared not in the panoply ofarms
nor in aught that savored of the "pomp ant
circumstances Of glorious war" but went a
his work farmer-fashion, in his shrt-sleeyes
and that the job was done in a workmanlike
manner let the best disciplined veterans O
Europe, flying "lke herd of hunted deer
before the farmers and farmers sons, show
while it proves the value of the husbancmal
in war.