Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-12-11

quirc any education to make farmcr-cau
do without it. So can those in other pur
suits, but it is a bad do. You may learn
enough by your neighbors and experiment
ing, to make living in spite of bad farm,
ing! But that don't say it would not be
better to tread the sure and unerring paths Of
science-to make more with less trouble
DR.. Franklin says, experience keeps q dear
school, and who learn only in it, arc fools
We should educate and Iearn to know bet
ter for what purpose we pfongh than the
animal that drags it. If we have but one
book, it should be the Bible. If two, one
should be the Holy book, the other, the one
that holds the key to our profession-the
farmers book. It is charged against US,
that of all the papers ofthe day, our farming
papers, though so few and so cheap, are the
ones, that like wounded snakes, scarcely drag
their slow lengths along. Why you scarce
ly ever read number, but some well writ
ten article or recipe would more than pay
the whole years subscription. 1t is said,
farming books contain many things we don't
understand. Well suppose they do-so do
other books, but they contain enough that
we do, to rebound to our lasting benefit.
While the spirit of emigration is sport for
the new, it is death to tho old States. Many
of us are bound for the land, he son of the
Green Isle expected to fnd in America a
place where pancakes grow upon the bushes,
and honey flowing at the roots, and all YOU
had to do, was to shake and sop. We talk
as lightly about wearing out our fields and
leaving them, as if about to take a pleasure
trip. Gentlemen, expatriation is one of the
highest punishmcnts known to the laws Of
Europe, save death. The native man of our
forest, will contend with dying grip, for the
land that gave him birth, and under whose
green sod sleeps the remains of his fathers.
Shall we then, who boast higher civiliza-
ton, be less sensible to those higher feelings
of our nature? Old men, of you I would
ask, are you aware than when you cut the
ties that bind you here, you snap cords
that will never be mended. That you here
create an aching void that may never be fill
ed You become exotics in an uncougcnial
soil, and like the reed broken from its land,
rolled on the tide of emigration until you
land on the shores of the Pacific. You may
find that afteryears spent in the thick heavy
forest, tangling vines and thick cane or prai-
rie mud, you have paid dear, very dear, for
your whistle-no children's play this-and
tune your feelings to the old lines of Gear
ry Inc back to old Carolina"
Young men! while I would say, circum-
stance might justify your seeking fortunes
in strange land, l would also say, if you
can find a good support in Carolina, she has
claim upon your energy and talents; you
should feel proud you were born Carolinians
satisfied to live Carolinans; for in spite of
the jecrs and SCOTS at Carolina, and as Sum-
ner was pleased to say, aye Carolina! She is
one Of the brightest stars that glitter in the
galaxy of States. When like Noah's bird,
you can find no place to rest your feet, like
it, wing your way to some other haven of
rest. When you leave family and friends,
you leave guardian angels. Have you an anx-
ious father, affectionate mother, loving sis
ter! then beware to place yourselves beyond
the bright halo of their influence. They
may often cause you to stop and think be-
fore you farther go-stay your steps on the
brink Of the yawning gulf. A man may be-
come reckless of self; but he cannot become
so dead in common sensibilities, as to disre-
gard the obligation he is under, to maintain
an unsulied name for them. | went to the
West a youth, and while there, met many
others who with strong arms, generous hearts,
accomplished minds, blooming in youth,
buoyant in hope begirt, as they supposed,
with steady habits and fixed principles, bid
ding fair to realize all the fruit presagcd by
so promising bloom. But few years elaps-
ed, you find the promised fruit blasted in the
bloom; and isolated youth, relying on his
own strength, is but as a broken reed, has
placed his feet, relying on this strength, on
slippery ground and fallen to rise no more.
They have said to me, have distant rela-
tivcs that are dear, but there is sting in
the recollection that have; oh . that / had
lived with and for them, L would not meet
them now-too late for their sympathy and
aid, and save me their reproach and just
scorn. Young men, recolect.
"Apart from what friends may feel, what friend
may think,
| All pleasures sicken, all gories sink"
Gentlemen of the society: The idea of
our forming a society, has been ridculed by
somc-an early day set for its demise, with
sic transit yIOria mundi for an epitaph.
But societies have accomplished much in the
elevation of our cause, and of mind over mat
ter. Show me well-farmcd and stocked
country, and I vii! show you one in which
society does or did exist. Show ME Sec
ton in Which society exists, and I ask not
the character of the people. Intelligence
and refinement are as sure to follow, as the
satellites to follow the sun. And whether
we profit by our association, depends upon
us, the faults is not with it; it is not be-
cause societies would not be all they promise,
that they are like school boys dream, the
fabric ofan hour, as transient as the life of a
musketoc, blown into and out of existence on
the same gale. No gentleman, on their de-
cline, like the Sun in his setting, lose none
of their glory, but like him, send back chas-
ter mellower light. My observation of these
institutions, sometimes, remind me of a boy