Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-02-24
MR.. cAMERoNs ADDRESS.

The last Hillsborough Recorder contains the con-
Guiding portions of very interesting and useful adj
dress delivered by Paul G. Cameron, ESQ.,. before
the Orange Agricultural Society, at Hilsborough in
October last This address ought to be in the hands
ofevery reading man in the State. We regret that
cannot find space for it in the Standard, but pre-
sent some Of the closing paragraphs:
Seek to make your homes lovely,e especially in
the eyes of your children induce them to aid you
in ornamentng it. Children employed and happy
at home the best guarantee for virtue and devo
ton to parents. No cottage SO humble that it may
not be made sweet by neatness none SO lowly that
it may not be embellished by the hand of industry.
The intrm pauper, on grounds provided by public
charity, feels himself wiser and better man amid
shrubbery trained and trimmed by his own hands.
No man is poor but that he contribute some
thing to make world more beautiful. He can
leave behind him monuments of his good sense and
OF his refined taste, it not of his opuence. He who
plants tree, sets orchard builds stone barn,
may be longer and better remembered than he who
dies millionaire. The rose the jessamne at the
door of homestead the lily of the valley at the
grave of friend, is quite certain indication of
pure heart and gentle feeling, as gded walls and
silver plate, chiseled marble.
Surround your dwellings by fruitful and well kept
gardens. patch Of cabbage, six rows of Irish po
tatoes, aad three of onions do not constitute
farmers garden Use only the best seed, and plant
only the best fruit 1t is easy to cultivate the
Vergalue and the Bartlett as the Choke Pear; the
Green Gage the Horse Plum. No is better
entitled to all the good fruits of the earth, than he
who tills it. And Lord Bacon declares, of the gar
den "that it affords the purest of human pleasures,
the greatest rereshment to the spirit man. without
which buildings and palaces are but gross handi-
works."
And, standing here on the boundary of this
cient county town-asSocated as it is with some of
the most interesting chapters of early history,
the seat of hospitality and Kindness the home of old
and long cherished friends, and a community in
which have felt the most sincere and friend
ly Interestingly be permitted to say, that had
hoped that the pick and the drill would hardly have
commenced their Herculean labors along thesbase of
yonder miniature mountains on the other side OF the
river, before the trowel and the hammer would have
been heard in the work of improvement this side.
If seifrespect cannot awaken you, nothing that
can say will You are surrounded by profile of
beauty that the taste and fancy of Shenstone could
never have conceived and all about you posi-
tons worthy of the best designs and rural embel-
lishments of the gifted and lamcnted Downing. If
you will, you may make it the lovely village OF
the vale spot at which the traveller as he flies by,
may look with delighted admiration, and desire TO
halt and refresh hns.lf Here without fear of YER
nal or autumnal reverse, you may spin and weave,
hammer and plane stitch and grind and collect all
the associations Of thrift, wealth and intelligence;
and assemble once more, in large numbers, th chill
dren of distant and unhealthy districts for educa.
ton But these things are not to be accomplished
by loungng under pleasant shades, discussing party
poltice, the size of melon or tomato.
We have all been discouraged; and discomfort
and want have deprived us of our best material.
But new day dawns on US; better hopes and
brighter expectations invite to diligence;
we have goodly heritage, and we shall be false to
duty if we lack the energy and the manliness to
improve it to the utmost. Exempt from those ter
rifle epdemcs that declnate whole districts; occu-
plying temperate latitude, in which grows almost
every plant essential to comfort; free from the
extremes of climate; can ever be at work. The
old can give the benefit Of their wisdom and
counsel; the young the resistless power of youth
whose hand is prompt to its duty her heart is
responsive to our joys and sorrows, will smile on
those who seek to make her home the abode of
beauty, peace and plenty And we depend only on
the favor and promises of Him, who hath said, that
so long the world endureth, seed time and har-
vest, summer and winter, shall never cease"