Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-10-29

respect equul TO the natiye-born. ~ might 90
for Us to make such charge against the for
eign organ, the ally of the administration; but
it comes with bad grace from the Washing
ton linton The administration had better
despatch DR. Forney to New York with power
to settle the difficulty, before the Frenchman
becomes too turbulent to be restrained. Prob
ably little of the Russian gold, +" which has
worked such wonders with the administration,
might appease the red republican Try it.
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Speech Of Mr.. winthrop, at the Grand
Agricultural Fair at Boston.
We have read with peculiar interest the speech
delivered by the Hon. II. G. Winthrop, at the ban
quet given by the Agricultural Fair now being
held at Boston. Apart from the chaste and beau
tful language it presents several points which are
interesting to the agricultural community MIR. W.
advocates the establishment of National Board
Of Agriculture" and the purchase of Mount YER
non for an experimental farm.
We give below the most interesting portion Of
this speech
Certainly sir it is quite time for some national
association or some national board of agriculture,
to take such figures and such facts under their es
pecial charge, and to consider by what arrange
ment of internal and external exchanges-by what
enlarged facilities of intercommunication, or null
tiplied divisions Of labor-by what additional sup
ply of mouths and markcts--these enormous bar
vests may find an adequate consumption at IRE
munerating price, so that our plenty may never
become our disease, nor our land present the pic
ture of the industrious farmer buried up beneath
his own exuberant heaps.
Foreign wars will not last forever, we trust Eu-
r0pean crops will not always DO deficient. Peace
and plenty will coon be seen renewing their horns
and diffuaing their priceless blessings over the
other hemisphere, as now over this. All that is
temporary and exceptional in the present demand
for the products Of agriculture will have passed
away. And then'we shall more than ever feel the
want Of some better assurance Of prosperity for
the farmers than any which rests upon the evils
and msfortunes OF other people. Sir, hail the
existence and steady progress of this society as
pledge that the interests Of the great body of
American farmers shall hereafter be chosen and
cherished theme for the consultation of wise and
experienced men in all parts Of the Union, and
that our American crops shall henceforth be the
subject Of some careful ascertanment and Of some
systematic disposition and treatment,
A mighty maize but not without pain.
Among the many welcome reflections which the
establishment of such an association suggests to
US, none is more welcome than that it is tho full
ilment of one of the most cherished wishes Of the
eminentlv wise man-.whosc character 4 iiself the
nobIest nrodnct which America has aver given ~
tbo world and whose name and fame grew brjcht.
a. md hr;ghter and dearar and llaarar ~ ne w;th
tha Janse ofyears--bad few thinps more warmly Al
heart than the establishment Of precisely sucb an
institution. cannot but wish that his own loved
and lovely seat on the Potomac might one day or
other become your permanent headquarters, and
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perceive, are appealing to their sisters through
out the Union, 10 aid them in purchasing it; and
would be the last to interfere with any plan Of
our better halves. But by whomsoever 1t may be
purchased, Mount Vernon must be consecrated to
nothing less than national use free from all Sec
tional--free from all partisan faint
And what use is there which SO completely full
fills all these regulations, and which is in sucl per-
feet harmony with the career, and the character,
and the known wishes of Washington and with
the genius of the place where his ashes repose as
that which have suggested Methinks your Di-
rectors would catch something Of fresh animation
and inspiration for the patriotic work which they
have undertaken, If they were fathomed from time
to time beneath that halowed roof and could hold
their deliberations around that old chimney piece,
covered with the emblems Of agricultural indus
try, which you have so appropriately selected as
the Illustration for your official letter paper. There,
at any rate, in that venerated mansion and in the
breast OF its august proprietor the idea OF your as
ISOLATION originated. In one of those well remem-
bered letters OF bis TO Sir John Sinclair, who has
been called the father Of British agriculture and
the father OF British statstics-in one OF those let
ters of which a fac-simile edition is the richest
ornament OF so many farmers libraries, and Of
which had the happiness TO present copy to the
son Of Sir John, the venerable Archdeacon Of Mid
dlesex, England, on his late visit TO America
Washington says
ait win DO some time, fear, before an agricul-
tura society, with Congressional aids, will be es-
tablished in this country. We must walk, as other
societies must prepare the way for greater but
with the lights before us, hope we shall not be
80 slow as older nations have BEEN Well. sir, the