The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1857-11-05

shalt we arrange to ilave the young men
OF tue country fall in love with tho beauties
Of the .ficld-the waving grain-the golden
harvests--the bleating Ierds---the innc-
cence, the righteousness, the health giving
recreations of~rural lifel How shall we
thus shame into comparative insigniGcance
the attractions of the. town and city-the
seething, fostering, corrupting. debilitatipg
influences Of city life, and the miserable H..
lusious Of tinsel and bren1e--the do-noth.
ing and the good,for.nothing, so called pro.
fessional and political careera How shall
we convince the ingenious youth of the
country, that honor and usefulness are not
confined to any given calling, depend not
on any titles, nor the occupancy of any
gwen ,piacess When shall they learn that
ne is benefactor who makes two blades of
grass, or stalks Of wheat, to grow where
only one grew before2 When will they
learn that lawyers and doctors and politi-
clans are, for the present, continued only as
necessary evils, performing in their sphere
the Office of the leech, to dcplete the body
polite by blood-sucking. Mt those points
where there happens TO betoo much inhom-
mahonf 1t is a shame that sensible men
ever encourage their sons TO enter into the
lazy, idle, loaiing life of law office, or
doctors shop, while the God of nature has
surrounded them with so many appliances
for usefulness, for rational enjoyment, for
vi.tuons independence, for the requirement
OF wealth and refinement at home! BY
this false and mischieyous sentiment-that
the professions absorb the talent and confer
the distinctions OF society-many educated
young men have been miS led away from
their proper vocation, into one of the mis-
named learned professions, and have fritter-
ed away the best years for manly exertion-
doing little for themselves and moth.
ing for society-waiting for the honors TO
fall from some@here, and feeding OH the
husks of esquire" or doctor" Had their
energies been directed to the field of agri.
culture, great work might have been ac-
comp!ished: elegant mansions would have
been reared throughout the land-orchards
and gardens would have diversified the
beauty of the country, and elevated, cl,ast.
ened and purified the taste of the rural popu
tion philosophical inquiry and rational
neutrality-suspicious. of chemical sci
enre to the arts of -well-directed labor
aud economical husbaudry-would have
greatly increased the productions of the
tarm and the dairy the poultry yard and
the shecp-fold, so as to cheaper the articles
OF daily consumption, and spread blessings
on the board and around the fireside of
human habitstions. And if these sons of
tue soil had failed in this line of labor "to
command the applause of listening seua.
tes," they would at least have shared
the other glorious privilege
Ihe threats OF pain and ruiu to despise,
To scatter plenty DER smiling land,
And read their history in their couatry's cues.
That educated men are needed-that men
OF enlightened minds, correct taste and
ioree OF character are required improve
the agriculture of the country, is but too
apparent to the least thoughtful observer.
For more than one hundred years the terri
tory of the State has been settled-the tim
bers fe!led-the soil cultivated by class
of men of tolerable industry, and of ordi-
nary average intelligence But they have
not been, in any liberal sense, educated
men. They have never been able, of them
selves, to apply the lights of science to the
labor of production. They have, to a great
extent, poughed and reaped as their IA
theirs did before them, varied only by occa-
sional thirst for speedy acquisition, and then
have exhausted the soil-des.roysd the
timbers-killed the goose producing gol-
den oggs-and abandoned tie ruined es-
tate, and sought the fertile regions Of the
West. This unwise and unthrifty economy
has left the State agricuturally poor, and
pitiably mutlated and defaced rs tho result
OF one hundred years of toll; notwithstand.
ing 1t is, and was, country by nature blest
with rare advantages and resources. Why
then such result of SO long an expert.
menH As peopie-as n section-we arc
certainly far behind, in this respect many
portions of the common country. The evil
the failure, we apprehe nd-will at last be
found, mainly, in two causes:
lst. Educated men, as general thing,
nave devoted themselves to other pursuits,
and the country has thus lost the adyan.
tage and aid of intellectual force and the
lights OF experimental science in this most
important field Of human exertion.
I'd. As the result Of the first.named
cause the Lie and ernnlornan. r ~