The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-10-30

stroying wind made his pears and peaches
look as bleak as suffering virtue. not better
than Abolitionists, while the fat Democrats,
that had got their tap-roots into the Nation
al Treasury, grew stout and hearty. So he
went home and built a high wall on the ex-
posed side of his orchard, and after that bis
peaches grew to the size Of melons, and his
vines ran out Of all control.
have heard a man say that he could have
whole farm in box rod square. lie
would take his roots into his library and
feed them food they like. II they had a
fancy for dead dog, he would let them have
it, being sure that the fruits would never re-
veal the secrets Of their table. Such men
we need to bring out a greater degree of
cultivation of our soil, which is capable of
as great an increased productiveness as that
which England has achieved. Concord is
one of the oldest towns in the country-far
on now in its third century. The Selectmen
have once in five years perambulated its
bounds, and yet in this year very large
quantity of land has been discovered and
added to the agricultural land, and without
murmur of complaint. By drainage, we
have gone to the subsoil, and we have q
Concord, under Concord, Middlesex un-
der Middlesex, and a basement story of
Massachusetts more valuable than all the
superstructure. Titles are political econo-
mists. They are SO many young Americans
announcing better era, and day of fat
things. There has been nightmare brought
up in England, under the indigestion of its
late suppers of overgrown Lords, that while
the population increases in 4 geometrical
ratio, the crops increase only in arithmet
metical ratio. The theory is that the best
land is cultivated first. This is not so, for
the poorest land is the first cultivated, and
the last lands are the best. Itneeds science
to cultivate the best lands in the best man.
mer. Every day a new plan, new theory,
and this political economy, is in the hands
OF these teachers. 1t is true, however, that
population increases in the ratio of mortal
ity, and the crops will increase in like
ratio.
congratulate the farmer of Massachu-
sets on his advantages. congratulate him
that he is sat down in good place, where
the soil and climate is so good. We are
here on the northern boundary of the tropics,
on the southern boundary of the arctic re-
gions. We can raise almost all good crops,
and if We lack the orange and palm, We have
the apple and peach and pear. In Illinois,
it is often said, although it is more the
voice of their scorn than of their pity, and
they reckon it Il singular leading of Divine
Providence that Massachusetts was settled
before the prairie was known, else unIro-
ductivc soils would never have been settled.
But the Massachusetts farmer may console
himself that if he has not as rich soil, he has
the advantage of market at HIS own door.
the mandatory in the same town. con-
gratulate you, then, on this advantage of
your position. Next, congratulate you on
the new territory which YOU have discovered,
and not annexed, but sub to Middlesex
and to Massachusetts. And then | congrat-
ulate you as being born at n happy time,
when the sharp stick must go out with the
arrow; when the steam engine is in full use,
and new plants and new culture are daily
brought forward. congratulate you on
the fact that the year that has just witnessed
successful employment in the mill.room
and on the plains and prairies, has also wit
messed the laying of the Atlantic Cable
The cable is laid, and the courage of man is
confirmed. The cable is shifting hand
All that used to look like vagary and castle
building is to be solid sense henceforth.-
Henceferth, if thing is really desirable, it
is in that degree really practicable, and
the farm you have dreams of-go instantly
and begin to make it. l congratulate you,
lastly, on the new political economy which
takes off the Grape and lets in the sunlight
on US, and which teaches that what is good
for one human body is good and useful for
us all.
Mr.. Emerson was much applauded as he
took his seat.