Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1856-07-08
grifaltursl apartufnt.
Gold and Corn.

ward Everett, delivered at the National
Agricultural Fair, held at Boston, on the
10Th of October, in which a contrast Is
most beautifully drawn, between the gold
OF California and the gold Of Agricul-
lure:
The grains of the California gold Is
dead, inorganic masses. How they get
iato the gravel; between what NOUN
tam nlill-stones whiried by elemental
storm winds on the bosom of oceanic ter
rents, The auriferaus lodges were ground
10 powder; by what Titanic hands the
coveted grams were sown broadcast in the
placers, human science can but family
conjecture. We only know that those
grams have within them no principle OF
growth or reproduction, and when that
crop was 10 be put II, Chaos must have
broken up the soil. How different the
grains of our Atlantic gold, sown by the
prudent hand Of man, III the kindly alter
nation Of seed time and harvest; each
cugiously, mysteriousiy organized; hard,
horny, seemingly hfeless on the outside,
but wrapping up in the interior a seminal
germ, "a living principle. Drop a grain
of California gold into the ground and
there it viii he unchanged to the end of
time, the clods on which it falls not more
cold and Iifeless Drop grain of our
gold, our blessed gold, IN the ground, and
To-. a mystery In a few days 1t softens,
il swells, ii shoots upwards, Ii Is a living
thing. Il is yellow itself, but 1t sends up
q delicate spre, which comes peeplng,
emerald green. through the soil; 1t ex
lands to a vigorous stalk, revels III the air
and sunshine, ii ARRAYS itself more glorl-
Gus than Solomon in Its broad, tiuttering,
leafv robes, whose sound, as the west wind
whispers through them, fall as pleasantly
on the huSbandman,s ear as the rustic OF
his sweetheart's garment; still towers
54loft, spins its verdant skeins of vegeta-
Die floss, displays It's dancing tassels, sur
charged with fertaliZing dust, and al last
ripens INTO two or three magnifcen. bat
ons like this, Can ear Of Indian corn) each
Of which is studded with hundreds of
grains Of gold, every one possessing the
same wonderful properties as the parent
grain; every one instinct with the same
marvellous reproductive power. There are
seven hundred and twenty grains on the
ear which hold in my hand. And now
I say, sir, Of this transcendc ii gold of ours,
the yield this year will be al least ten or
fifteen times that of California.
But it will he urged, perhaps, sir, In
behalf of the California gold, by some
misery old fogy, who thinks that there is
no music IN the world equal to the chink
of his guineas, that though one crop only
81 gold can be gathered from the same
IL =. L. ~, I
Of time while Che VIII maintaIn) our
vegetable ground produces only TO be con-
sunled, and when consumed, Is gone for
ever But this. Mr.. President, would be
a most engregious error both ways. II IS
true, that California gold viii last forever
unchanged, if its owner chooses; but
while il so lasts it is of no use, no, not 50
much as It's value III pig iron, which makes
The best of ballast; whereas gold, while
it is gold, is good for little or nothing
You can neither eat it, or drink il, nor
burn it as fuel, nor build house with 1t !;
il IS really useless till YOU exchange it for
consunable, perishable goods and the
more plentiful il is the less It's exchange
bic value
Far different the case with our Atlantic
gold it does not perish when consumed.
bu; by nohler alchyny than that of Par
acelsus, is transmitted in consumauon to a
higher life. = Perish IS consumption y
did the old miser say Thou fool, that
which thou sowest IS not quicEmed, except
. die. The burning pen Of inspiration
ranging heaven and earth for a snnllltUde
10 convey to your minds some not made
quate idea Of the mighty doctrine of the
Resurrection, can find no symbol or eX-
pressive as bare as grain To-day
senseless plant, tomorrow II IS human
bone and muscle, VEN and artery, sinew
and nerve, beating pulse, heavlng lungs,
toiling, and sometimes overlooking BRAN.
Last June II sucked from the cold breast
OF the earth the watery nourishment of It's
dIstending sap vessels, and now II clothes
the manly form with warm cordial flesh,
quIyers and thrills with the five-fold mys-
terry OF sense, purveys and ministers to
the higher mystery of thought. Heaped
up IN your granarles this week. the next
il Will strike In the slalwart arm, and glow
u the llushing cheek, and flash III the
beaming eye-iill we learn al last 10 re-
alIze in the slender stalks which we have
seen bending IN the corn field, under the
yellow burden Of harvest, is indeed the
staff of life which since the world be-
gan, has supported the toiling and strug-
cling nyriads Of humanity on the mighty
pilgrimage OF beng.
Yes, sir, TO drop the allegory, and 10
speak without a figure, 1t Is this noble ag-
rlculture, for the promotion OF which thus
great company is assembled from 50 ma
Hy parts Of the Union, which feed the hui
man race, and ali the humber order of
aalma. nature dependant on man. With /
the exception Of what IS welded by the +
fisheries and the chase Ca limited sup /
ply. Agriculture Is the steward which /
spreads the daily table Of mankind.-
Twenty-seven millions Of human beings.
iy accurate computation, awoke this very
morning in the United States, all reoui- Ii
ring their " daily bread, whether they /
had the Grace IL u3. far II pr 10. and ~