Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1855-11-30

The following beautiful contrast between
the gold of California and the gold of ngri-
culture, is from the speech Of Edwaru Everett
at tho national agricultural fair, Boston,
October 26th
The grams of the California gold are dend +,
inorganic masses. How they got into the
gravel; between what mountain milstonas
whirlnd by elemental storm winds on the
bosom of oceanic torrents, the aurfcrous
Lodges ware ground to powder by what
Titanic hands the coveted grains were sown
broadcast in the placers, human science can
hut family conjecture. We only know that
those grains have within them no principle
Of growth or reproduction, and that when
that crop was to he put in. Chaos must have
broken up the soil How different the grains
Of our Atlantic gold, sown by the prudent
hand of man, in the kindly alienation Of
seed-time and harvest ; each curiouslv, mys-
tcriousv organized hard, horny, seeming
liteess on the outside. but wrapping up in
the interior seminal germ. living lrin-
cipln. Drop grain Of California gold into
the Ground, and there it will lie unchanged
to tho end of time. tn" clois on which il
falls not more cold AMI liieless. Drop
grain ur our gold, our hlnoooi gold, IL the
ground. and 10 Il mystery. In few day.
living thing II is yellow itself but it sends
up IL delicate spire, which comes recpin-.
emerald green, through the soil it expands
to a vigorous stalk, reels in the air and
sunshine it arrays itself more glorious than
solomon in its broad, huttering, leafy robes,
whose sound, as the west wind whispers
through them, falls as pleasantly on the
hushandman's 3 ear as the rustic of his sweet
hearts garment; still towers aloft spins its
verdant skpins Of vegetable floss, displays it,
dancing tnssels, surcharged with fertiIzlng
dust, and at last ripens into two or three
magnificent batous like this ian ear Of In
dian corn.J each Of which is studded with
hundreds Of gIAins of gold, every one pos
s9ssing the same wonderful properties as the
parent grain, every ono instinct with the
same marvellous reproductive powers. There
are seven hundred and twenty grains on the
ear which hold in my hand. And now
say. sir. Of this transcendent gold of ours,
the Weld this year will be ut least ten or
fifteen times that of California.
But it will he urged, perhaps, sir, in boz
half Of the California gold by some mis- ry
old fogv, who thinks there is no music in
the world equal to the chink Of his guincas.
that though one crop only Of gold can be
gathered from the same spot, yet once
gathered it lasts to the end Of time while
duccd only to be consumed. and when con
sumcd is gone forever. But this, Mr., Prcsi.
dent, would be most egregious error both
wavs. 1t is true, the California gold will
last forever unchanged, if its owner chooses
but while it 90 lasts it is Of no use, no, not
50 much as its value in pig iron, which
makes the best Of ballast; whereas gold.
while it is gold, is good for little or nothing.
You can neither eat it, nor drink it nor
smoke it. You can neither wear it, nor burn
it as fuel. nor build house with it; il i.
really useless till you exchange it for con-
,umdhe. peri shablo goods and the NOR.
plentiful it is, the less its exchangeaJls
value.
Far different is the case with our Athntic
gold it does not perish when consumed but.
hy a nJhcr alchymy than that of Paracelsus
j. transmitted ia consumption to a higher
life Perish in CONSUMPTION did the old
misor saw Thou fool, that which thou
sowest is not quickcned erccptH die. HE
burning pen Of inspiration, ranging heaven
,.ul &c, els 100 si",ilitnda 80 rnn''..- E" ..'"
poor minds some not inadequate idea Ji the
mi .htv doctrine of tha R,-urrnrtinn. can find
no symbol % expressive as bare gram it
may chance Of wheat or some other grain.
To-day u senseess plant, tomorrow 1t l.
human-bJne and muscle, vein and artery,
snew and nerve, heating pulse. heivlug
lungs, toiIinS', an sometimes overcoming
brain. Last June II sucked from th' co'd
breast OF the earth the WAtery houf,sNM3Ht
Of its distendlnt sap vessels ana now II
clothes the manly lorm with warm ''riIli
flesh. quiyers and thrll's with the hHe-i'id
mystery OF sense, pnryeyS ana ministers t.
the higher mystery OF Thought. li'arel up
in your grAnari.s TINS week the next 1t WIN
STRIKE in the sulwart arm, and glow in the
Il a.
hlushlng check, ana u'sh IN IN. hehmln-
eye; till We learn at last to rshIze that the
slender stalk which We have seen bending