The daily republic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1853-1853, 1853-08-03


scrags Of beasts that no feeding can fatten--who,
with our prize implements before their eyes. do
that still by hand which they could do cheaper
and better by Interchangeable allow the trimmings
from their fields to wash the goodness out Of their
yard into the pond that gives drink to their cat
tle--whose horses are half fed, whose fields are
undraned, whose crops are unhoed, who reap as
much weed as wheat Depend upon 1t, the days
Of those men are numbered; they are condemned,
not by the law of man, but by the law OF God
by that law which He has made to regulate the
growth of all that has life, by that law which
speaks out to them in their fields, in their woods
that the plant which stops in its growth il first
''hovered," then stifed The tagging farmer can
more hope to be exempted from this doom than
he can hope at his will to add cubit to his stat
ure. fear gentlemen, that | have wearied you;
but allow me before close to address parting
word to the landowners. They also must perform
their part. If they do not wish to see their lands
desolate they must put up suitable budngsfor their
improving tenants; but, above all, they must pre-
pare betimes to meet that great, that happy change
which is taking place in the relations between the
laborer and his employers change which /
have earnestly wished for-a change which thank
God have been permitted to see, for it will raise
the laborer from serfdom to the independence of a
freeman, loud cheers;] it will awaken into new
life of energy and usefulness that sluggish indiffer
ence into which his hitherto degraded position has
cast him; he will henceforth be a better work
man, better parent, better citizen; this only was
wanting to fill up the measure OF blessings which
Providence has showered over our country But
then we landlords must be prepared to meet this
new emergency [Cheers.1 1t is no longer our
business to seek by emigration to keep down num-
bers within tire limits Of employment 1t is now
our pleasing care to retain the energetic, the
tive, the industrious, by increasing comforts, by
improved cottages close to their work; 80 alone
can we render the home of his forefathers more
attractive to the laborex than the gold fields Of
thn tpcr of tha
turing districts. But will no longer lnger upon
this grateful subject, which will be far better
treated by my noble friend who will give you the
toast of s'the Laborers." Permit me to thank
you for the kind attention with which you have
heard me, and to drink to your health and well
fare. THE noble lord resumed his seat amid loud
cheers.
Subsequently toast having been offered to the
author of Sam Slick
Judge HALLIBURTON returned thanks for the
welcome with which the company greeted him,
and which was, even for the sOciety's pavilion,
unusually cordial. He said that it was customary
to give some "notice of motion" in such cases,
and if he had received it, he would have come
little more prepared, though perhaps he would not
have made SO natural u return. He compliment
ed Sir Roderick Murchson ON his scientific ac-
quirements, which had enabled him to predict the
gold fields of Australia, at which thousands of
their countrymen were now digging, while the
ticans claimed for themselves the merit of the
high prices, but politics not the bread of life
Loud cheers During the war, when high prices
raised up the farmer, it was because the unpro-
ductive class were so numerOus-because the
army, the navy, and the number of people in the
public employment had to be fed. The same un-
productive class has again arisen, though from
different causes; and let not politicians take the
whole credit of the results to themselves. His
books had been referred to, but he never could
have written them if he had not spent his life in
the country, and never lived in towns, but among
his countrymen, the farmers. [Cheers.] He loved
them, and from the opulent farmer to the log hut
his happiest days had been passed in their society
1t was by talking to them and knowing their feel
ings and prejudces for they had their prejudices,
laughter, that he had acquired some insight into
the human heart, and had been enabled, they said
to put it in his books. [Cheers.
Agriculture was the most simple, the most in
nocent, and the most honorable employment of
man, [eheers, and, though he could not say that
he had contributed any thing towards agricultural
shows, little wooden clock he had exhibited to
his countrymen with moral lessons which, he
hoped, had done them good. [Cheers and laugh
ter. These moral lessons, read by the English
as well as the American farmer, showed the value
of time, the hours of work, and the hours Of
alton, and how to have an extra hour and an ex-
ira dollar where it wanted, and if, as there
were in all human machinery defect, this little
wooden clock had one which ought to be copied,
it was that it went on tick Much laughter.
He had not the honor to be an Englshman He
was native of another part of the world; and one
hundred and fifty years ago his forefathers left
time of the assizos, [great laughter, or whether
one of his cloth helped them over at the public
expense, there was one now old enough to say,
and therefore perhaps it was MS well not to make
too strict an inquiry. Laughter His excel
lency had talked of that country being able to re-
t1,n latte ne hit
his part he should like to work back-it would be
his delight and happiness to do SO, and he would
not be sorry, provided it was for no moral delin-
quency, if one of his brother judges sentenced him
to be transported back to England. lCheers and
laughter.1 He had never spent two such delight
full days in his life as attending at the present
meeting. As practical farmer, fond of the cul-
tivaton of the soil, he had come to Gloucester
purposely from Scotland. [Cheersl
1t gave him great pleasure to state, without at
tempting to say any thing civil or to fatter that
in the last ten years the improvement which he
observed was beyond any thing that he could re-
collect, and that it was more marked among the
lower orders than in any other class. They were
better fed, better Clad better paid, and they re-
spected themselves. If he might be permitted to
mention trivial an illustration, he would take
the notice in St. James's Park, which he saw the
other day. "The public are requested to protectthe
birds and the trees in this plantation No "man
traps and spring guns nor prosecutions were
mentioned. When at Loughborough he
similar notice--"These grounds are for the benefit
of the people, who are requested to protect them.
Such evidences showed that the people respected
themselves and deserved the respect of their
periors. [Cheers.] When he looked at the i'm
provements that had taken place, and the period
at which they had arrived when there were no
prejudices against machinery to be awakened
when the day of the demagogue gone-when
there no idle, lazy, and pauper population to
excite-and when, therefore, the demagogues
could do no mischief--he asked, did not these i'm
provements go deeper than many supposed
fCheers.] He had trespassed too long on their
patience, and he would conclude by thanking
them again most heartily for the honor they had
done him TCheers