The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1854-08-04

benz fl The Upconntry, EQUALLY rich, more health
full, and more varied IN lis productions.
We are advocates for State Indebtedness TO
form State improvemens-the example Of sister
Stares should teach us some discretion. We d"
| not look upon debt of any description, t'ess
ing. 4 strange doctrine to be 0dvOraied by
cIrrg, man The Legislature sbouIu grant pro-
| teclIve charters, 10 such companies who will form
their own Rail Roads, with the smallest assistance
from the Slae-and then State taxation may BIZ
limited. But the condition of other States who
have formed de BITS, upon as good vouchers any
We have read in the d" Hints" ought to warn
North Carolina moi too ca gerlv to credit such ex
travagance, lest the State be further depoPuated,
by excess of taxation, 10 pay the interest on an
indiscreet State Deb Of many millions
July 81, 1854. MECKLENBURG.
o. We take the following extract from ad-
dress recently delivered before the two Societies
of the University of North Carolina, by Hon. Aa-
ron V. Brown, Elk Gov. of Tennessee:
LET US now turn 10 the contemplation of our
country IN her progress in those industrial and
professional pursuits into which YOUR preparations
here mainly intended TO introduce you.-
Foremost OF all the pursuits OF man stands agri
culture. 1t was the original and natural employ.
/ ment Of our race. The Pa,riarchs were successful
cuItiva'ors Of the earth. Among the Romans the
proudest patrician thought it no disgrace to live
on his farm and cultivate it with his own hands.
CincinDntus called from the plough TO
his country, and having accomplished the great
work, resigned the Dictatorship and FASTENED
back 10 his labors in the field 1t is not only the
most ancient employment, but its necessity and
usefulness, arc the greatest 1t is, in fact, the
foundation Of ali others. There can be no COM
merce, no manufactures, and, indeed no subsis.
tence without it. In the expressive language Of
an old adage, ''it makes all, pays all, and supports
ALL" But although it is the substratum Of all 9TH
er pursuits, 1t has always been the most neglected.
A very high degree Of education has been consid-
cred necessary to those who intended 10 betake
themselves to the learned professions. Some pre-.
paration was thought necessary TO success in COM
| merce, manufactures and mechanic arts, but in
| agriculture, no apprenticeship, no degree of in
suction seems to have been thought at all impor.
tant. Men were to be educated to other things,
but they to be born farmers. How to fol-
low the plough and to handle the and the
schytke to be the sum total Of the qualifca-
ons for the noblest, the virtous and the hap
piest occupation of man.
Happily for our country, however, these rude
notions have been rapidly giving way before The
advancing intelligence of ahe age. The establish
ment OF agricultural prolessorshps in some OF our
colleges, the reports from one Of The Bureaus at
Washington, the organization of fairs, and the pub
LEGATION of newspapers and periodicals., exclusive
ly devoted to the subject, beginning to place
agriculture rather in advance of any other pur-
suit or profession. Wherever in the United States
il has made its greatest progress, there the rela-
tive rank of the planter and farmer, in the social
circle, has been the most completely restored.
lie no longer stands in conscious inferIory to the
lawyer and physician. AS we'll educated as they;
as learned IN his profession they in theirs;
renumerated by as large profits, and devoting
those profits to inequalities as elegant and ra-
1ional he knows and feels he is pursuing a calling
which may well challenge comparison with any
other In confirmation of this just claim of equal
ity, he all other professions and pursuits be-
ginning to pay homage to the one which he select
ed. How many Of the learned professions are
found, Of late years, engaged in the same bold
vigorous and healthful? How many opuent mer.
chants and manufacturers retiring in the ev-
ening Of their days, and egaging in agriculture?
Even the statesmen. and The warrior pay the same
homage to this noble calling. Mr. Webster, in
the midst of his highest fame, still looked to his
favorte Marshfield, and cherished The hope that
he might spend the last years Of his life in the cul-
tivaon of his fields, and in looking after his
herds and his locks. Mr. Clay chung to the same
hope, as to the rich fields, and the verdant lawns
of Ashland. Gen. Jackson sighed when he left
the precincts Of the Hermitage, and exchanged the
cultivation Of his farm for the executive sway of
a mighty empire.
or all The professions, learned or unlearned, II
is bes, calculated to inspire deep and undyIng
timents Of patriotism. Standing on his own soil,
personally identified with it his own, the far
mer is ready to protect and defend it. |,
may have descended to him from ancestors, whose
memory he reversible dwelling may have been
built or the orchard planted by fathers hand
Here is the green lawn which he played, the
spring, the brook, the grove, the church, all con
secratng his home, and inspiring him with attach
ments which only with his life. Where
ever his business other necesscity of life, may
= compel him to roam,
I sHe still has hop,, his long suriournings past,
Safe to return and die at home at last.''
We speak not of him who, inheriting from his
ancestors his broad acres and his many servants
commits them all to the superintendent of sci
D fish and ignorant agency, and betakes himself te
the crowded city. to pursue life of Incidence ane
v pleasure, far removed from The invgoratne anc
Y manly pursuits which now commanding
h We speak rather Of hun who resides on his farm
or near it, and directs in person its scientific cul
ivailor; OF him who knows personally that his ser
u wants are we'll fed, well clothed, and well proec
!. ted against unmerited punishment, inflicted b.
" cruel and capricious subordnates. This is IN
d farmer and planter who is worthy of the name
Such one soon finds every thing prospecting un
+ der his enlightened and humane Supervisors
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