Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1855-11-15

Iefuai W Tue chlhk OF MS gulneas, that though
one crop only Of gold can be gathered from
he same spot, yet once gathered it lasts to
the end Of time, while (he will maintain) our
vegetable gold is produced only to be con-
sumed, and when cosumed is gone forever
But this, Mr.. President, would be "a most G.
gregious error both ways. # is true the Cal
ifornia gold will last forever unchanged, il
its owner chooses; but while il so lasts it is ol
no use, no. not so much as its ualue in pig iron,
which makes the best Of ball9st;whereas gold,
while it is gold, is good for little or nothing
You can neither eat it, nor smoke i. You can
neither wear it, nor burn it as fuel, nor build
house with it. Il is really useless till you
exchange it for cOnsumable, perishable goods
and the more plentiful it is the less its exchan
gable value.
Far different the case with our Atlantic gold
it does not perish when consumed, but by a
nobler alchymy than that Of Poracesus is
transmitted in consumption to a higher life
Perish in consumption did the old miser say 4?
Thou fool, that which thou sowest is mol
quickened except it die. The burning pen oI
inspiration, ranging heaven and earth for 81.
Multitude to convey to our poor minds some
inadequate idea Of the mighty doctrine of
the Resurrection, can find no symbol so expires.
sive as bare grain. 1t may chance Of wheat
or some other grain To-day a senseless
plant, to morrow it is human--bone and mus
cells, vein and artery, sinew and nerve; beating
pulse. heaying lungs, toiling, ahl sometimes
over toling brain. Last June it sucked from
the cold breast Of earth the watery nourish-
ment Of its distending sap vessels, and now it
clothes the manly form with cordial flesh, qui.
vors and thrills with the fve.fold mystery oI
sense, purveys, and ministers to the highest
mystery Of thought. Heaped up in your gran
aries this week. the next it will strike in the
stalwart arm, and glow in the bushing cheek
and fash in the beaming eye, till we learn at
last to realize that the slender stalk which w
have seen bending in the cornfed, under Thu
yellow burden Of harvest. is indeed the 'stst
of life, which since the world began, has sup
ported the toiling and struggling my riads o
humanity on the mighty pilgrimage OF being
Yes, sir, to drop the alegory, and to speal
without figure, it is this noble agriculture
for the promotion Of which this great company
is assembled from so many parts of the Union
which feeds the human race, and all the hum
bier orders of animated nature dependent or
man. With the exception Of what is yielded
by the fisheries and the chase ia limited tho
certainly not an insignificant source OF supply
Agriculture is the steward which spreads thu
daily table of mankind Twenty seven MILL
onS of human beings, by acurate computation
awoke this very morning in the United States
all requiring their daily bread, whether they
had the grace to pray for it or not, and under
Providence all looking to the agriculture of tht
country for that daily bread. and the food o
the domestic animals depending on them, de
mand as great perhaps as their own. Mr. Pres
dent,it is the daily duty of your farmers to sat
isfy gigantic appetite, to fll the mouths o
these hungry millions-of these starving mill
ons, might say for by any catastrophe, th'
supply were cut off for few days, the lift
Of the country-human and brute-would b.
extinct.