Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1855-02-28
MIR. CAMERoN's ADDRESS.

The last Hllsborough Recorder contains the n.
cluding portions Of very interesting and useful ad-
dress delivered by Paul C. Cameron, Esq, before
the Orange Agricultural Society, at Hillsborough in
October last This address ought to be in the hands
ofevery reading man in the State Wercgret that we
cannot find space for it in the Standard, but pre-
sent some Of the closing paragraphs:
"Seek to make your homes lovely, especially in
the eyes of your children induce them to aid you
in ornamenting 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 embeshed by the hand of industry.
The infirn pauper, on grounds provided by public
charity, feels himself wiser and better amid
shrubbery trained and trimmed by his own hands.
No man is so poor but that he can contribute some
thing TO make. our world more beautiful. He can
)eare Behind him monuments Of his good sense aRd
Of his refined taste II not OF his opulence. He who
plants tree, sets orchard or builds stone barn,
may be longer and better remembered than he who
dies millionaire. The rose or the jessamne at the
door of homestead, the lily of the valley at the
grave of friend, is quite certain an indication OF
pure heart and gentle feeling, gided walls and
silver plate, or chiSeed marble.
Surround your dwellings by fruitful and well kept
gardens. patch of cabbage, six rows of Irish po-
atoes, and three rows 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 affords the purest of human pleasures
the greatest retreshmen to the spirit ofman. without
which buildings and palaces are but gross handi-
works."
And standing here, ON the boundary of this an
cent county town-associated as it is with some of
the most interesting chapters of our early history,
the seat of hospitality and kindness, the home Of old
and long cherished friends, and community in
which haze 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 Herculcan labors along the.base of
yonder miniature mountains the other side Of the
river, befol the trowel and the hammer would have
been heard in the work Of Improvement on this side.
If Sc.freSpect cannot awaken you, nothing that
Can say will. You are surrounded by profile OF
beauty that the taste and fancy of Shcnstone could
never have conceived, and all about you are posi-
tons worthy Of the best designs and rural embel-
lishments Of the gifted and lamented Downing. IT
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 himself Here, without fear of ver-
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;
aHIl assemble more, in large numbers, the chill
drcn of distant and unhealthy districts for educa
ton. But these things not to be accomplished
by oungirg under pleasant shades, discussing party
, politice, the size of melon, or a tomato.
We have all been discouraged; and discomfort
and have deprived Of our bOst material
But new day dawns US better hopes and
brighter expectations invite us to new 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 epidemics that decimate whole districts;
pyng temperate latitude, in which grows almost
every plant essential to our comfort free from the
extremes of climate; we can ever be at work. The
old can give the benefit Of their wisdom and
counsel; the young, the resistess power Of youth
| full enthusiasm and woman, virtuous woman,
whose hand is prompt to its duty as 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 as the world endureth, seed time and har-
vest, summer and winter, shall never cease"