The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-11-14
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loNa Sttte aErituituFhI SOcieEN.
FAIRFIELD. Iowa, Oct. %, 1856.
10 secrefaries 81 County agricultural
Soeietiss, and others:
By an order Of the State Board MT late
meeting held Mt Muscatine, the Reco riding
Secretary was instructed to prepare State
Agricultural Report, which is intended to ex-
hibt the condition Of Agriculture in Iowa.
In this State Report il is designed to embody
the Histories and present condition Of all the
County Societies, in connection with the re-
port of the last State Fair. You will, with
these facts in view, confer great favor, by
transmitting 10 me at as early day as pos
sible, full history of your county society,
embracing your lists Of awarded premiums,
oihcers, past and present, annual addresses,
improvements for Fair Grounds, statements
OF Crops together with any other matter
pertaining to Agriculture in your county.
The Report will embrace some three hun
dred pages. making volume OF great inter
est TO every farmer in Iowa. II will be dis.
trlbuted among the different county Socie-
ties rs the Board shall direct. We desire
therefore, to have full report from every
county Society in the State. Address,
j. NJ. SHAFFER,
Cor. Sec. Iowa State Ag. Soc. Fairfield, Iowa.
HkAvY RESPONSIBILITY Speaking OF the
National Debt Of Great Britain, the late hon.
ored and lamented statesman, Henry CLAY,
used to tell q capital story Of an opponent Of
his making stump speech in the midst OF
the most unsettled parts Of the then farthess
Western. States. He was . small pettifog-
ger--..wnrdy, windy and wandering y In all
! that he said, and with the utmost confusion
as to what he was talking; only he knew that
he was accusing Mr.. Clay Of wanting to in.
trodace the cuss-d "Fsndal System' into this
country. Some demagogue had told him
that that was the nature Of Mr.. Clay's Pro-
tectlve system
Look O. here, now, my friends" said be
lest look tit, want to know If any Of you
who hear my voice Uanfs this Feudal Sys-
tenn What has it done for for England,
aud Europe, and France. and Scotland, and
other foreign countries2 Look at 'em Half
oil EN- are no better than slaves, and some
Of 'em not half MS well on. What has done
4 ihiss The blasted Feudal system, that they
want to fas,en on to this country, same rs
they did on to Greece
'.And then just look at the expense. What
do you think England owes this minute, for
wars and high living, under this FeudAl Sys-
lem Why. more than nine thousand dol
lars, and the interest runnin' on ali the while
DO we want any system like that h'isted onto
this country DO YOU want it, my fellow
eiti rens 20
Well-tley did mt. and SO made manifest
At the polls. In a sparse settlement, in the
Wilderness, where, re the crater s.:a, s.s..s
size mn rich, but money are sourse," where a
SILVER dollar is supposed to be the size of q
eart.whee, nine thousand dollars, ns the Ma
aonai debt Of Great Britain, seemed an un-
accountable. and u "most numerous am ount''
oi money!. Y. knickerbocker.
Ihk NAME Oh fgrAoNr.--rhe magnificent
run which Fremont has made in his trial for
ihe Presidency, appears 10 be reminding Mt
once the fame OF his popularity. By sever.
a. pubic meetings in this city tic has been
proclaimed their candidate for 1860 /: md We
have no doubt the Republican presses of New
England are in his favor. Very well. Let
US take things coolly and deliberately; and
by the year OF grace 1860 We may be en-.
Ablei to show the difference between Free
mont and Fillmore in the South.--[N. Y.
Herald