Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1853-11-25
Extract from the Hon. Horace Greeley s
Speech in Indiana.

have been eXhorting your young farmers
to study and master the vocation to which
their lives are to be devoted-and that is right
but what if they were to turn on me with
the inquiry Where shall we study!" How
| shall | answer them if they ask" How and
where are we to learn how to analyze soils,
and make ourselves familiar with all the Sci
ence which lies at the base of Agriculture as
we'll as Mechanics! ~ can only say CT them
| ave IN New York are determined, as soon as
may be- to have a Peoples College to teach
these important, 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 if you do not
precede u.s." That is the best that can be
said to-day; trust ere long to be able to speak
more to the purpose
do not seek to disguise the magnitude
and the difficulty of this work | contemplate
that ofreyolutionizing our Agricultural, and
making it the most elevated and ennobllng
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 filled up the constitutional immobd-
itv of Conservatism that must be overcome,
before the end can be attained. But see also
how 1.-THE star in their courses" fight in be
half of Progress and Enightenment-how
immense has been the march Of Intelligence
as well as Invention and Physical improvement
in our age-how the Steamboat, the Railroad,
the Steam Press, the Ocean Steamship, the
Electric Telegraph, are speeding us onward
tbo ,,-lrl ho. bn4prn
kuown-and | hear voice from all these and
manya indredimpulse and influence, bidding
Man the Cutivator advance boldly and conf
IDENTIFY to take his proper post As lord of the
animal kingdom, and wielder Of the elements
for the satisfaction Of his wants and the de
yelopment of his immortal powers. | hear
them calling him to yindicate the discernment
of the prescience of those glorious old Greeks
who gave our Earth in her young luXuriance
the name of HosmoS-or BeaWy-a name
Lelied by our Scared and stumpy grain fields,
our scared and barren pastures, our bleak and
arid deserts, our foul and ma!arious marshes;
but which science shall yet Justify, and joyus
labor perpetuate. In spite of all distractions
and impediments, "the world does move and
even the most sluggish and stubborn are car
Tried along with it. Our Agriculture, as
whole. is more skilful and efficient than it was
thirty or forty years ago; and it is now i'm
proving in accelerated ratio. Even |, the de
sccndant of a line Of oorcultiyatOrs, stretching
back, very likely, to him who thl ough his own
blindness and faulty lost his situation Of head
gardner in Eden-eyen feel the all Pervadhg
impulse towards improvement and reform. l
can never be a scientific farmer-I am too Old
and too heavily laden with duties and cares
for that-but my son, if he lives, shall be
The little can teach him shall at least inspire
him with a craving for more and set him on
the right track to learn it. And thus tens of
thousands are growing up all around US, chill
dren perhaps, Of ignorance and inefciency-
who Shall be leaders and guides in the great
work to which this Address is feeble but
earnest contribution.
| commend the moral Of Hawthorne's sto-
~ 10 our young men, who are from year to
year setting forth 50 bravely to wrench for
tune from the golden sands Of California, or
win her among the Young cities that, emuIa-
ting the growth of Ionah's gourd, are begin
MING 10 dot the American shores Of the great
Pacific. Far be it from me to lnslnuate that
their venture is a wild one, and their hopes
necessarily doomed toultimate blight. have
faith in American energy; still more III stur-
DIV, persistent, intelligent industry; and feel
sure that a cline 50 genial, a country so diver
slfed in its natural features, soil 50 deep and
virgin, as that of California must protter many
inducements to the hardy, resolute pioneer,
even though that soil be here dthere sprlnk-
led with gold. Such an enterprise as thePeo-
ping and settling of country so new and so
remote from prior civilization will, of course,
demand its martyrs; in its prosecution thou
sands will die, and tens OF thousands fail, but