The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1853-09-14
Agricultural Reso uro as.

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These are safe axioms, and every man
who is at all given to reflection and
study, must feel their truth. There
can be no commerce, no manufactors,
no art, no science--we had well nigh
said--no civilization, in any country,
where the soil is3not TILED and the
peaceful persuits of agriculture follow
ed. A great English critic has said
that "Commevce as King" Admit
ting the truth; where pray, does King
Commerce obtain his power, if it does
not spring directly from the soil 3
Tis here that his strength slumbers in
the winter season, and bursts forth in
the spring time to make the world feel
his power and importance. 1t is not
little strange to us, that the animal
called conventionally man." with the
force of these truths before him, and
the dazzling light Of the best intelli-
gence Of the age, will nevertheless per-
sist in crowding one mother to death
in large cities, where pestilence and
poverty and vice in every phase, unite
their forces to kill him. fit is strange
that such condition should exist in
,he Monarciies of the Old world, it is
still more strange, that in the New,
where every man is permitted TO ENJOY
the full benefit of his own labor, with
out the interference Of church for tt
thes; or State, for the support of royal
pagents, and idle shows.
We contend that it is not little
strange that in government like this
of the Model Republic" that the same
ceiling of Capitalization, common to all
animals, should bring dozen families
to live--or rather die together, in an
eight bv ten room, in a crowded, i'll
ventilated street, in preference to the
health and wealth, and independence
Of the country-where lands can be
had free of cost, and the axe of INDUS
try may with little labor and no other
cost. construct comfortable dwellings.
Yet in the very face of all the induce
ments held out for emigrants to till the
soil, they will crowd themselves and
huddle together, at pestiferous sea-
son, in infected localities, aud Togo
the substantial conveniances and plea
sures oil life, for disease and death which
is as certain to follow as any other
fixed fact.
The State of Louisiana labors under
many social and political evils which
it is in the power of the people alone
to remove, and liberal system Of pub
lie education, will alone point them
cut. We are not processing in our
movements, on the contrary, we are
retrograding as fast as it is possible for
us to do, under unwise and blind sys-
tens. a-
We hold that Louisiana is not only
the sugar bowl, but the very Eden it
self of this Union. There is no one
acquainted with our climate and soil
who will gainsay this fact; and in the
very face of our agricultural. resources,
the earth lies fallow-a wilderness as
primitive, as it was in the days of De
Soto and Lasalle. The peculiar IN
stituti0ns under which we live is the
main cause of this condition. The
dignity of labor is degraded, and it is
more honorable for the bone and sinue
of the State, to lounge about the city
and the town, and steal living, than
it is to turn attention to agricultural
persaits.
A short visit east of this place, to