The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1855-10-11

fol experiments made In the whole county,
(and many Of those made elsewhsrs,) are
annually brought together, and subjected to
public inspection; aud for each one Of them
you the sensible and true avouch of your
own eyes. twas well said, in an address
delivered here about six months ago, that
we come here not TO hear arguments, but TO
see facts, and look al demonstrations.
lought 10 remind you, that The State Soci-
ely is not mere voluntary associs,ica off
vale individuals, bu, a public insti,u,ion es-
tab!ished, protected and guarded BY law
Some OF you may not know, lha, the profits
of its exhibitions have already made i, rich.
One of its officers tod me, few weeks ago,
that il had about forty thou sand dollars in its
treasury. Forty thousand more were proba-
bly, added last week a, Philadelphia. II is
proposed to invest this fund, or portion of
it, in the purchase of large farm, and to es-
tablish school there, at which scientific and
practical agriculture will be fully taught; and
presume without any expense 10 the pupil,
except The labor he beslows on tho farm
Half dozen such schools may be establish
ed in the course oflhe next ten years, ard it
will, perhaps, be your fault, if you do not
hare one in this part of The State.
Every citizen has an inieres, in this ins Ii
tution--I mean the Siae Society. You have
legal right to be represented in its coun-
ellis, and should zee that You are. do no,
know, or believe, that il has yet been touch
ed BY any man who is not perfectly honest.
Its active members are certainly far apove
suspicion. But its funds are swelling rap
idly, and ii seems very difficult in these
times, TO have much treasure deposited any
where. 40 safely that thieves will not break
through and steal. Somerset Couniy.-and
every son that claims her for his birth place,
or his abode, may speak il with Lonest pride
has never produced public defaulter, and
her people never knowingly sanctioned an
act of bad faith. From the highest 10 the
lowest of her officers, every one, for eixty
years, has settled a clean account. In the
glory OF this enviable distinction she stands
| almost alone. 1t is fl that such County
should be well represented, wherever there
is a common fund, that needs watching.
There are some other topics which ought
not 10 be overlooked on such an occasion as
this. But have already taxed your pa
| tience more than intended
The future of this great country is full oil
exciting hope. But It depends entire ly on
the tiers of the soil, whether that hope shall
be realized, or not. The neglect 10 improve
our agriculture will be followed by the de-
cay ofall else that we ought 10 cherish, in
morals and government, as well as in the
arts. Mexico has gone all to pieces-lhe
property of her people is the spoil of robbers,
and their liberty the play,aing Of iyrant-
simply because her agriculture is half GEN.
tury behind the age. But for this she would
have had an independent and stable govern
ment to-day, and might have laughed to
scorn the force we sent against her in the
late war. A well cultivated soil produces
not only grains, grasses, aud fruits, but an
other, and far more precious crop-men--
men who know their rights, and dare main
tain them-a bold, honest, and intelligent
people--lhe just pride, and the sure defs nee
of every nation.
On The other hand It starles the imagina-
tion to think what we may become in few
years, if we adopt The Improvements already
made, and keep pace with those who are
yet TO be. We have the grandest field to
work upon that was ever opened 10 the in
duslry OF man. A territory is ours, stretch
ing through every variety of climate and soil,
from The wheat lands OF New England, ly-
ing, for half the year, four feet deep ip snow,
TO the orange groves Of Texas and New
Mexico, where winter never comes-vaey s
of unbounded ferlility--mouniains filed with
inexhauslible wealtb--lakes that spread out
with sea.ike expanse-rivers, which make
those OF Europe seem like brooslels in COM
parison-every thing, in short, made OH a
scale Of magnificent grandeur. The child
may now be born, whose old age will look
ppon the American people and see them
three hundred millions strong. Suppose such
population, doubling itself every twenty
two years and half-living under gov
ernment of equal laws-noving onward and
upward, with the energy which freedom
alone can inspire--and aided by the highest
science in making the most OF their natural
advantages. Who shall curb the career Of
such country, or seta limit to lis deep
founded strength Milton himself never
dreamed Of a power so boundless, or peo-
pie 80 best, even in tina, enrapturing vision,
when he saw, ga mighty. puissaut nation,
rousing herself like strong man alter sleep,
and shaking her invincble lecks," or like an
eagle ''mung her mighty youth, and kind.
ling her undazzlfd eye al the full blaze of
tie midday beam; purging aud scaling her
sight al the fountain itself Of heavenly radi-
ance. The man, who, with his senses open
10 the truth, would thwart such destiny, or
refuse his aid to accomplish ii, as a traitor
not 10 his country alone-but 10 the best in
tersst, and highest hopes of the human