The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1855-01-06

of Washington, in the name of agriculture,
in the name of the American people, to pur-
chase the hallowcd and consccratcd ground
Of Mount Vernon, and dedicate it to the cause
Of the diffusion of agricultural knowledge.
And yet Congress pauscs. Five millions of
agrculturists appeal in vain for so small
boon. Represented through their societies.
organized throughout almost every county of
the Union, with State associations, and ma
tional association, their annual gatherings
already constitute the great national gala
days of the country, with an agricultural
press already read by half million of voters
paying the taxes of the country-consti-
tuting three fourths of the people of the coun-
Try, and yet Congress gives to agriculture no
bureau, no department, no institution of
learning: they know us but to tax u.s. In the
moral world just rctlibution is visited upon
&C Is of omission, as well as upon acts of
commission, The agriculturists have but to
combine to punish such slightngs of their
claims, such verslauShlng of themselves
and their interests, and insure from more
faithful servants more faithful work. The
day of rcck onng may be at hand.
1t must be said however, in reference to
the memorial presented by Mr.. Blair and
others, for the purchase of Mount Vernon
and the establishment of an agricultural
school and model farm. in connection with
the Smithsonian Institution, that General
Norton Of the Senate Committee Oh the sub
jcct, made very able and satisfactory re-
port, and it is to be hoped the measure will
be promptly acted on at the approaching ses-
sion of Congress.
And VIII at course for training this would
afford to the youth of the country The far
mcrs Of my own little State came forward re-
Gently to make up balance of fund Of $780,
600 for the establishment Of an agricultural
department in connection with Delaware col
lcgc, at Newark The result is, that on the
first day of this month forty three young gem
tlcmen entered that institution, being twice
the average number for the last several years,
coming from Georgia, South Carolina,
Maine, representing in all ten States; and to
help lis along Montgomery county farmer, a
Washington city lawycr-nly friend, Joseph
II. Bradley, Esq up and made us a
most able and eloquent address. l am chang
ing work with that gentleman, and paying
my task as we'll, even he will admit that l
put in good time.,.
Maryland, also, moved thereto by one who
is always first to move, and the most ctlici-
cnt to move in every good cause connected
with agriculture Charles b. Calvert, Esq, is
agricultural college,
Enter, then, your sons. Sound in their
ears the cxhortaion Of the father Of Daniel
Webster to his son, as they ware resting
from their labors on 4 hay cock in the new
dow, 'sGct learning my son, get learning,
get learning" and the father was ready to
make any sacrifice to this end
81 remember" says Webster, "the vcry
Hill which we were ascending, through deep
SHOWS in New England sleigh, when my
father first made known,his purpose of SEN
ding me to college. could not speak. How
could he thought, with so large a family
and in such narrow circumstances, think Of
mourning great an expense for me. a
warm glow run all over me, and | laid my
head on my fathers shoulder, and wcpt."
Our children will remember the sacrifices
we make for them, and bless our memories
for it: nay, they will, rs they relate such sac
rifccs, let our voices be heard above our
graves.
For the training of our sons, so far rs their
physical formation is concerned, how favora-
bic are our country homes, and the sports,
labors and exercise they induce! Nor is the
scene less favorable to their moral culture,
where. rcmotod from temptation; they behold
in everything that surrounds them the works
of nature,
And look through nature up to natures God
Their intellect, then, must be addressed
through the schools and the colleges, while
everywhere they must learn the prccepts Of
our blessed religion, and seek to excel in the
practice of every Christian virtue. Train
then you mothers Train in the name of
WASHINGTON! Begin with the anecdotc of
his childhood, when the father said to the
child six years old, after first questioning all
his servants, s:Ge orge, did you cut the pear
tree in the garden7'' The reply was, '.Fath-
err, / can't tell lie; it was that did it,
O.! Truth how lovely thou art base and
support of every virtue! Let our youth be
taught to worship thec who was ever false
to anything who never spoke but under the
influence of thy spirit, and binding this tails.
man on the brow of her young son, a talisman
handed down from Mary, the mother o
Washington, let the father now train and in
struct the youth of more mature years, and
still in the name of WAsHINGToN--tha noble
modcl!--ssThe glass wherein our youth should
dress themselves" pointing him out first as
the farmers boy, breaking and taning his
colts, enjoying and excelling in all manly
exercises, as riding, swimming, leaping, throw
ing the bar, and as thus invigorated, trained,
and hardened, penetrating, while mere
youth, on his country's mission, the western
forest, crossing the Alleghanies through
frosts and SHOWS, and over swollen streams,
with noble constancy, trmness, and resolu-
tion that already bespOlLe him the undaunted