The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1853-10-26
CITY AND COUNTRY BRED
PEOPLE.

Francis Z. Blair, ESQ. (the old editor
of the Globe)to the Agricultural Assu-
citation of Montgomery county, Mary
land, delivered at Rockville, on e
Sth instant, from which we give an cx.
tract that may be read with pleasure
and profit
Men who have made fortunes in our
cities, begin now to appreciate the
value Of country life, however avcrsc
or unsuitcd to i, they may have been
rendered by habit The common
guide book of Paris, which is put into
every travellers hands, has this note
under the head ofpopulation "Fam.
lilies constantly residing in Paris soon
become extinct. The effects OF this
mortality are observed to be more act
i've upon males than upon fcmalcs."--
What is true of Paris is true of every
city in the world. There is nc', prob
ably, man in London, Paris, New
York or Philadelphia; who can say that
his great grand father, his grand father,
and his father, successively lived and
died in the city OF his residence. There
is no such thing as the survivor of three
generations that have undergone the
drcomposing power Of II city atmos-
phere, assisted by city pursuits. a
city, then, may be said to die out once
in a hundred and fifty years, so far as
regards those rooted generations that
live, and move and have their being
only in city's precincts. Whoever,
then, would have succession in his
flmily-that desires to transmit his
name and wealth by pcrpe,ua ing his
racc-would at some period of his life
take his leave of walls aud pavemcnts,
and crowded thnroughiares, and fix his
abode III the niids, of the rustling foil
age, the G cen fields, clear streams. and
sweet air, untanted by stagnation in
the walled streets and alleys and sew
| erS.
There is another observation in re-
gard to cities which induce Thoughtful
men, who take lridc in their pnstcrity,
toSremovc from them when they have
accomplished the objects for fWsfif u iiiuiii i
they are sought. How many millions
fchildren educated in cities with the
utmost care, have passed away with
out reaching distinction among his
countrymen. 1t is remarkable that
children born in cities, generally cxhib
it Prec"cious talents; they have the
easiest access of every species oflearn-
ing: they are stimulated TO exercise in
the schools by pride, vigilance, and
solIcitnde, which is spirited up by the
string society around; they have the
advantage of imbibing an early knowl-
edge of the world, and have almost in
infancy the manners, the ideaA and
Self-rosscssion Of polished sucTety.-
But although the great cities OF the
Old World and Of the New World
sent forth probably one hundred OF
these fully educated youths, to test
their strength in the high pursuits OF
lite, for one country adventurer, Yet it
is f"und that almost all the distinguish.
ed men who shine in the service of the
country or in the liberal professions
are country born and bred.
The hot.beds of cities bring forward
their plants more rapidly; but those
springing from the native soil, and
Drawing the rude seasons and rough
culture of the country, are found to
have the best stamina Look over
the list OF great men who figured in
our revolution, and it will be found
that almost to Il man they were coun-
try BON and bred. Search the annals
of the revolution in England from the
reign of the lst Charles TO the Sd Will
liam. These were the times that tried
the souls OF men in the mother coun.
try. The French revolution filled Par.
is with innumcrablc great men, the of.
spring OF the provinces. If we scan
our own quiet times whence come the
Illustrlous men who have filled the
chief naagistry, and given fame to Con.
gress aud our State Legislatures?
do not know one that has not made his
way from some rural district to the
high places of the republic. And so,
too, it has been with our great mcr.
chants and mechanics who have -four
ished in cities; trace them, and You will
find that the impulse that gives them
this lead brought them from the fields
OF some village to try their fortunes in
the city. The men who thus build
themselves up in the marts ofbusness
have generally the sagacity to sec that
life in the country is the natural state,
that in the city an artificial existence;
and if not too much possessed with
the spirit of getting, which gain is too
apt to cngender, they retire to the
scene from which they emerged.
This is particularly marked in pub.
lie men, who almost Invariably seek to
close their career at some homestead
which they would make Ntheir monu
ment. From this feeling we have oul
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