The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1855-11-10

Sidc, seminal germ, IVlhS prihclple
Drop a grain Of California gold into th,
ground, and there it will lie unchanged u
the end of time, the cods on which it falls
not more cold and lioless. Drop grain o
gold, our blessed gold, into the ground, anC
10. mystery. In few days it soitens, il
swells, 1t shoots upward, it is living thing
1t Is yellow ITSELF but it sends up delcat,
spire, which comes peeping, emerald green
through the soil; II expands into vigorous
stalk, revels in the air and sunshine, it ar
rays itself more glorious than Solomon in its
broad, ilutterng, lcaiy robes, whose sound
as the west wind whispers through them
falls as pleasantly on the husbandman's 5 eal
as the rustic Of his sweetheart's garment
still towers aloft, spins its verdant skeins o
vegetable floss, displays its dancing tasses
surcharged with fertillzing dust, and at las,
ripens into two or three magnificent batons
like this, an ear Of Indian corn, each oI
which is studded with hundreds OF grains OF
gold, every one possessing the same wonder
iul properties as the parent grain, every one
instinct with the same reproductive powers.
There are seven hundred and twenty grains
on the ear which | hold in my hand. And
now ! say sir, OF tiis transc nIant gold oi
ours, the yield this year will be at least ten
or fifteen times that of California
But ii will he urged perhaps, sir in behalf
Of the California gold by some misery old
iogy, who thinks there is no music in the
word equal to the chink Of his gllineas,
that though one crop only Of gold can be
gathered from the same spot yet once gath
cred it lasts TO the end Of time; while lhc
will mantain) our vegetable gold is produced
only to bc consumed, and when consumed
is gone forever. But this, Mr.. President,
would hc a most cgrcgious error both wayS.
II Is true the California gold will last forever
unchanged, il its owner chooses; but while
II lasts II Is OF no use, no, not 30 much as
ITS value in pig iron, which makes the best
Oi ballast; whereas gold, while 1t IL gold, Is
good for little or nothing. You can neither
eat II, nor drink it, nor smoke it. You can
neither wear it, nor burn it as fuel, nor build
a house with it, it is really useless till
you exchange it tor consumabc pcrshsbIe
goods and the more plentiful it is, the less
its cychangeablc value. Far different the
case with our Atlantic gold it does not per
iSh when consumed, but by nobler alche.
my than that Of paraCclsus is Transmitted
IN consumption to higher life. Perish in
consumption, did the old miscr say? Thou
fool, that which thou sOwest is not quicken.
ed efclDt 1t die The burning pen Of inspi-
ration, ranging heaven and earth for ST.
to convey to our poor minds some
not inadequate idea Of the mighty doctrine
Of the Resurrection, can find no symbol 50
expressive as bare grain, it may chance Of
wheat, or some other grain" To-day a
sensclcss plant, tomorrow il is human bone
and muscle, vein and artery, sinew and
pulse, hcayng lungs, toll.
lng, ali, sometimes oyertoIling brain. Lust
june II sucked from the cold breast Of the
earth the watcry nonrishmcnt Of its distend-
ing sap-yeSscls aud now it clothes the
manly form with warm cordial flesh, quiycrs
and thrills with the iive.foli mystery Of
sense, purTeys and ministers to the higher
mystery Of thought. llcaped up in your
granaries this week, the next il will strike
in the stalwart arm, and glow in the blush
ing check, and fash in the bcamng eye
till we learn at last to realize that the slcn-
der stalk which we have seen bending in the
cOrntield under the yellow burden Of har-
vest, is indeed the staff Of life which,
since the world began, has supported the
tolllng and struggling myriads Of humanity
on the mighty pilgrimage Of being.
Yes, sir, TO drop the allcgory and speak
without a figure it is this noble agriculture,
for the promotion Of which this great com.
pany is assembled from SO many parts Of
the Union, which feeds the human race AM
all the humber orders of animated nature
dependent on man. With the exception Of
what is yielded by the fisheries aud chase IA
limited though certainly not an insignificant
supply Agriculture is the steward which
spreads the daily table OF mankind. Twen-
ty.scven millions Of human beings, by accu-
rate computation, awohe this very morning
IN the United States, all requiring their
daily bread whether they had the grace to
pay for il or not, and under Providence all
looking to the agriculture of the country for
that daily bread, and the food Of the domes-
tic animals depending on them; demand
perhaps as great As their own. Mr.. Pres.
dent, It is the daily duty of your farmers to
satisfy this gigantic appetite; to till the
mouths Of these hungry milllons-of these
sta: wing millions | might say, for if by any
the supply were cut oil for a
few days, the life of the cOuntry--human
and brute would be extinct.
How nobIy this great duty is performed
by the agriculture OF the country, need
not say at this board. The wheat crop Of
the United States, the present year, is vari-
Dusly estimated at from one hundred and
fifty to one hundred and seventy-ivc millions
Of bushels; the oat crop at four hundred
millions OF bushels the Indian corn, our
precious vegetable gold at one thousand
millions Of bushels OF the other cereal
md of the liguminous crops have seen no
estimate. Even the humble article Of hay,
his poor timothy, herds rass and red top,
which not rising to the dignity of the food
Of man, serve only for the subsistence of
.he mute partners Of his toil--thc hay crop
IF the United States is probably but little,
f any, inferior in value to the whole crop
IF cotton, which the glowing imagination of
the South sometimes regard as the great
bond which binds the civilized nations of the
earth together.
After some further remarks on the i'm
Dortancc of the present exhibition, Mr.. Ev.
,rett concluded by expressing his cordial
good wishes for the prosperity Of the United
States Agricultural Society.
Military America Ahead.
The following clever extract is from the
London Atheaeum :-"Amcrcan papers are
on the absence of all literary
,tiort in the Crimca, and are therein noting
very much to their own glory-a charac-
.cris tic diff renee between the surroundings
IF an American and of an English army.
The contrast is fair. The sclf.laudation is
not unjust Our readers know tha: when
he Yankees marched into Mexico they car
'icd with them printing press, and publish
al alnnnv hn 1;pa nC