Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1853-11-04

oil better. 10 secure this, We need
oaly farmers who will feel just pride
In having the finest orchards and gar
dens; who will surround not merely
their own dwellings, but those OF their
tenants and helpers also, with choice
trees; aud who will plant and keep plan
ting until good fruit shall be 50 alum
dant that i can be no longer an objectto
rfeal il.
But detain you too long, though
many suggestions crowd upon me which
would gladly develop, did time permit.
J would like TO illustrate that inspiring
theme, the harmony OF interest between
former and manufacturer, which renders
each new factory or workshop estab-
lished In an agricultural county or dis
trict positive accession OF wealth TO
every farmer who lives within the radius
of its influence. You may readily per-
ceiye the addition OF value given TO each
farm in Indiana by any canal or railroad
which cheapens the cost oi sending that
farms surplus produce to market-that
is, TO producers of the wares you require
or the fabrics you consume; and how
much greater must be the saving, the
benefit, to IndIana, of bringing to her
soil or near IL, instead of the fabrics, their
manufacturers, so as 10 render them
perpetual and more extensive consumers
of her produce, need not surely insist
on.
But | pass over this and kindred top
ics, not rs out OF place but out OF time,
to dwell, for moment on the necessity
that everywhere exists for increased ia
cilities TO practical education.
l have been exhorting your young farm
ers to study and master the vocation to
which their lives are TO be devoted
and that's right-but what If they were
20 turn on me with the inquiry-'Where
shall we study" How shall answer
them ifthey ask-"How and where are
we to learn how TO analyze soils and
make ourselves familiar with all the
Science which lies at the base Of Agri-
culture ss we'll as Mechanicsl" | can
only say to them. We in New York are
determined. as soon as may be. to have
Peoples College to teach those i'm
portant. vital truths to all who seek them
and TO enable them to pay their way by
their labor while learning. and we trust
you in.Indiana will speedily follow il you
do not precede US" That is the best
that can be said to day; trust ere long
10 be able to speak more to the pur-
pose.
DO not seek to disguise the magni-
tude and the difficulty Of the work con-
template-that Of revolutionzing our
Agriculture, and making It the most ele-
waited and ennobling, because the most
intellectual, pursuit Of man. | realize
the mountains Of Prejudice that are to be
leveled, the Dead Seas Of Ignorance
that must be filed up, the constitutional
immobillity Of Conservatism that must be
overcome. before the end can be attain
cd. But see also how "the stars in
their courses" fight in behalf Of Pro-
gress and Enlghtenment-how immense
has been the march of Intelligence as
well as Invention and Physical Improve
ment In our age-how the Steamboat,
the Railroad, the Steam Press, the
Ocean Steamship, the Electric Tele-
graph, ARE speeding US onward with a
momentum the world has never before
kncwn-and hear voice from al.
these and many a kindred impulse aud
influence, bidding Man, the Cultivator,
advance boldly and confidently TO take
his proper post as lord OF the animal
kingdom aud wielder Of the elements
for the satisfaction Of his wants and
the development Of bis immortal pow
ers.
hear them calling him TO vindicate
the discernment or prescienco of those
glorious old Greeks who gave our
Earth In her young luxuriancc the name
Of kosmos or Beauty--a name belied by
our SCARED and stumpy grain.felds, our
scared and barren pastures, our bleak
and arid deserts. our foul, malarious
marshes; but which Science shall yet
justify and Joyous Labor perpetuate. In
spite fall distractions and impedlments
'the world does move" and even the
most sluggish and stubborn are carried
along with II. Our Agriculture, az q
whole, 10 more skillful aud efficient than
II was thirty or forty years ago; and II ID
now improving In accelerated RATIO
Even ], the descendant OF line OF poor
cultiyators, stretching back, very likely
TO him who through his own hcad-gard.
nor IN Eden even feel the oil perva'
ding impulse toward Improvement ant
reform. can never be Scientific
farmer-T am too old aud too heavily
laden with duties and cares for that
but my son, no lives, shall be. The
little ! can teach him shall at least In,
splre him with craving Tor more. ant
set him on tho right track 10 learn It,
And thus tens OF thousands are growing
up all around us-chlldren. perhaps, o
Ignorance aud interchangeable shall b,
leaders aud guides In tho great work 10
which this Address Ia a feeble but ear
nest contribution.
Hawthorne, In bis "Three-Fold Dea,
tiny" tells the story OF young maj
who wandered all the world over In
quest Of three wonderful ncldents,w
Il had been predicted. should occur IA
hun; and returned disappointed and spir
it-broken 10 hnd them all under the shad
ow ofhls paternal roof. | perceive II
this tale, as in every work OF true gcni
us, some reflection of universal fact
an appeal 10 the general experience an,
the heart OF Humanity. How many
have chased deluding phantoms through
the lervid noontide oil He. only TO lind
as evening shadows drew around them
that Ambition had no goal. Achieve
ment no triumph, to equal the calm
perennial joys OF humble rural home
| commend the moral Of Hawthorne
story TO our young men; who are fron
year TO year setting forth 50 bravrly I,
wrench fortune from the golden sands o
California, or win her among the younG
cities that. emulating the growth OF 10
nah's gourd. are beginning to dot tn
American shores, OF the great Pacific
Far be II from me 10 insnuate that thci
venture is wild one, and their hope
necessarily doomed TO untlmoy blight
have faith In American energy; still
more In sturdy. persistent, intelligen
Industry; and feel sure that cline 8,
genial. a country 40 diversified In It's ma
tural features, a soil so deep and virgin
a. those Of California, must prefer ma