Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1855-03-21
FOR THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE.
The Arator.

Mr.. GoRMAN / request a small space in your
columns, to announce to the public, that IN con-
sequence of une expected delay in the arrival of
material, and subsequent indisposition, the publi-
cation of the first number of " The Eorth Carolina
Arator " is necessarily deferred until the end of
this month, and that the paper will thereafter ap-
pear regularly on the first of every month. 1
was induced to procure new ma erials at heavy
cost, and to undertake its publication at the urgent
solicitation of a number of the most intelligent and
influential members of the State Agricultural So
ciety, with the assurance that it would be adopted
and supported by the friends of Improvement as
the organ of that Society and relying upon the
f%ulfllment of that pledge, I shah prosecute the
work with the hope of success
The instrument signed by only four of the Exec
utive Committee, and presented to the public by
Mr.. Cooke, as an g endorsement" of the l." Carroll
ma Cultivator," certainly cannot be intended to be
received as an official endorsement" coming as
it does from SO small a minority of the Committee.
To offer It as such would be a gross insult to the
members of the Society. and to the intelligence
and common sense of the public generally-and
Yeti came out in that imposing form, placing the
four signers in the false and unenyiable attitude of
usurping authority, and undertaking to do what
neither the Society nor the Committee had author
ised them IA meagre minority,) to do-a thing of
which 1 believe those gentlemen incapable where
as, they had signed it, probably, upon the applica-
tion of Mr.. Cooke, with the understanding that it
could not, of course, appear as an official document,
without the concurrence of a majority or, they
may have signed without examining critically the
language prepared for their signatures, with the il
%tention, simply of giving DIR. Cooke nothing more
than a friendly certificate. Its publication, there.
fore as an official g endorsement is clearly unjust
to the four signers, as it is deceptive to those who
are ignorant of the number of members compo-
sing that large Committee. To a plain mind il
will appear strange how any one, who did not de
sign to forestal public sentiment, could thus thrust
out with hot haste a document unsupported by d
sufficient number of names to give it either valid
ity or weight.
The Executive Committee-numbering fourtee,
or fifteen membcrs-to whom the matter has beer
referred by resolution of the Society, will no d CUB
in dine time announce their determination. What
ever that may be, my purpose is fixed to proceed
with the publication and, after all, [ shall be con
tent for it to be judged by its merits, rather than b,
endorsements" Those who may be pleased to ex
ert themselves in procuring subscribers are request
ed to forward their names within the month, tina
they may receive the first number.
Thanking you for the kind. and compliment tar,
terms in which you were pleased to notice m.
prospectus, | remain, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant, &C.,
THOS. j. LEMAY.
Editors in the State friendly to my enterpris
will please copy. T. J. L..
March 10, 1855.
P. S. I have received a letter since the above wa
written, from a prominent member of the State Ae
r%icultural Society, who participated actively in th
proceedings of the late special meeting of that bod,
embracing a list of twehiy-six names procured b
his personal efforts, with the cash, who says, in a
fusion to a report which hal reached him, that I'll
Carolina Cultivator" had received the sanctio
of the Society, or the Executive Committee
"after ohat pissed at the special meeting in ia
uary, it is incredible that such a statement can
true" 7, J. T..