The emigrant aid journal of Minnesota. [volume] (Nininger City, Minn. Terr. [i.e. Minn.]) 1856-1858, 1857-12-05
Edward Everett On Agriculture.

celebrated skeptcal philosopher of the last century
the historian Hane-thoug ght to demoilsh the credl
hilty of the Christian Revelation, by the concise argu
ment, :. 1t is contrary to experience that miracle
should be true but contrary experience that tes-
tmoay ST ould be false The last part of the PROPOSE
tion especially In tree country the eve of popu
lar election is uuhappily too we'll founded but in what
book worms dusty sel tapestried with the cobwebs OF
age where the light OF real life and nature forced
its way in what pedants school, where deaf listen
10 dumb lips and blind followers led by blind guides
lid he learn that II is contrary to experience that
miracle should be true Most certainly ne never learned
it from reaper-irom dumb animal or fationa
man connected with husbandry. Poor Red Jacket, OFT
here on Buffalo Creek if he could have comprehened
the Of the proposition, would have treated it with
Contrary to experience that phenomena should
exist which cannot to pereeptbe to the
human sense or conceivable by human thought . It
would be much the truth to say that within the
husbandmans experience there phshomens witch
nationally traced anything but the instant
ergy Of creative power.
Did this philosopher contemplate the landscape.
at the close Of the year. when seeds, aud grans and
fruits have ripencd and stalks have wered aud leaves
have alleu and winter has forced her icy curb
The roaring jaws Of Niagara. and sheeted half con
ia her gitterin: sroud, and all this teemng veg
citation and organized! ia locked in cold and marble
obstruction and, after week upon week and month upon
month have swept with sleet ard chilly rain and howl
ing storm, the Garth aud lvetsd their crystal bolts
upon the door Of natures sepuchrc when the
length begins to wheel in higher circles through the
sky, and s.tter winds breathe melting SHOWS
did he behold the long hidlea earth length ap-
pear, and the nild peep forth, and the
autunna heat begin paint the field and velvet leaf.
LETT burst from pnip buds, rous houi the reyivng
forest and thea the mellow sell open its fruitful
bosom to every grain an sect dropped from the plant
ers hand, buried hnt to rng up again, clothed with
mysterious being. and then, fcrvli suns
nlame the air, and softer showers disIl from the clouds,
and geer ews string their pearls tws and tendri!,
did lie ever watch the fpenng grain and fruit pendant
from stalk and vine, aud tree; the meadow, the field,
the pasture, the grove each after his kind arraycd in
myriad tinted garments, instinct with circulating life !;
millions ot counted leaves single tree, each
of which Is system whose exquisite complication puts
to shame the shrewdest cunning Of the human hand
every planted seed and grain which had been loaned to
the earth, componndg It's plous usury thirty, sixty,
hundred fold-al harmonously adapted to the susten-
ance of living nature-the bread Of hungry world ;
here titled coruheld whose yellow blades are noddng
with the food of man there Implanted wilderness
the great Fathers farm-where he 'who hears The
ravens cry has cultivated with his hand his
merc crop of berries and nuts and acorns, and seeds,
for the humber families of an;ma.ed nature the sol
elephant, the browsing deer the wild pigeon,
whose lutterug larkens the sky; the merry
squirrel who bon Is from branch branch, in the joy
Of his little lite-has he all tis- oes he il
every year, and month, and day--does he live, and
move, and breathe, and think, this atmosphere o1
wonter-himself the greatest wonJcr Of all, whose
smallest fiber and faintest pulsation is much mys
terry the blazing glores of Orions be-and dces he
still maintain that miracle is contrary to experience
If he has, and if h- does, then let him go, in the
of heaven and say that contrary experience that
the August Power which turns the cots Of the earth
into the daily bread of thousand million souls could
feed five thousand in the wilderness? :?
Town AND COUNTRY LIFE-It would be absurd tc
deny the manifold importance Of great commercial
towns in social system. They not the
SntO nj cal. nti t,ay hv h hIf
necessity The intenser life which springs from then
stern competition undoubtedly performs impor
tant Office the progress of civilization The faculties
are sharpene bN the direct contact and collision o.
kindred minds The great accumulatons OF capital
whc. almost exclusively take place in commerce
the occupations connected with it, exercise all pow
cru influence III the community, and felt IN al! Ii;
enterprises The social ympathles gather warmth ant
force ro The generous coniagion of crugenal natures
But society It's happlest state when town and coun
try act an upon each other to mutual advantage
when the simple and purer tastes Of rural lt
are brought 10 inyeorate the moral atmosphere o IT,
metropolis and when fair proportion of the weaIt
acquired the cty flows back and is invested III aude
improvements transferring cultivated tastes and hbers
arts from crowded ani ringing payemen's
the open, nealttiu country, and correcting them wit
substantial Interests anu calm pursuits
in acknnwe'ging Il | 20 most cheerfuv, the III
portant relations OF city life at conerc,ai pursuits
the entire SOCIAL system Of the country, leave o cours
ou: Of ACCOUNT have words but Of aoaorrence-
for rrssalizsi coas praces, s"lndIng. and pnnde
which exist side By si With tbs Legitimate TRANSACTION
of the s,oc" e.euaugc. /: IS OF the least pc
Die xc;i anomalies Of modern life and manners, that viii
svowel, and thus far honest gambling (if NAY co
ue>t those Words driven by pub.ic opinion ana Il
law sccudc Itself from observation WITHIN careful
tylcd doors there to ioal away It's hundreds, perhaps
lAousaaas, III seurct--liscreIled, infamous blasted