The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-02-24
Illustrious Farmers.

Edward Everett, in late Grafton Ut
the New York Agricultural State Fair,
thus referred to great men who have cho.
an agricultural life ...
The greatest political philosopher and
most consummate statesman Of Modern
Europe, Edmund Burke, who saw further
than any Of his countrymen into the cloudy
future which hung over the close of the
eighteenth century, at the meridian Of bis
life. and while most engrossed in public
business, purchased large farm Il
have" says he, in s letter written 80
friend in that most critical year Of English
politics, 1859, "ju.t made a push. with
all l could collect of my own. and the aid
of my friends, to cast little root in the
country. | have purchased about si1
hundred acres Of land in Buckingham
shire, about twenty -four miles from Lon
don. 1t is place exceedingly pleasant,
and purpose. God willing, to become a
farmer in good earnest" This. bis pur.
pose, be carried into effect, and adhered
to it to the end of his life. Those i'm.
mortal orations which revived in the Brit.
ish Senate the glories OF the ancient elo.
quence, were meditated in the retirement
of Besconsfsld; and there also, we're
composed those all but inspired appeals
and expostulations, which went to the
heart of England and Europe in the hour
of their dearest peril, and did so much to
expose the deformity and arrest the pro.
gress of that goddess philosophy-specious,
arrogant, hppocritical and sanguinary-
which. with liberty and equality on its
lips, and plunder, and murder, and trea.
son in its heart, waged deadly war on
France and mankind, and closed a pro.
fessed crusade for republican freedom by
the establishment Of a military despotism
A greater than Burke In this country,
our own peerless Washington, with bur-
den of public care on his mind such s.
has seldom weighed upon any other per
son-conscious. through a considerable
part of his career, that the success not on.
ly Of the American Revolution, but of
the whole great experiment Of republican
government. was dependent in no small
degree upon his course and conduct-yet
gave throughout bis ,lfe, in time of peace,
more Of his time and attention, as he him.
self in one Of his private letters informs
US, to the superintendent of his agricul.
tursl operations, than to any other object
"It will not be doubted" says he. in his
last annual message to Congress 9TH De.
cember, l796,) :" that, with reference Ell.
ther to individual or national welfare. 81.
riculturs is Of primary importance, In
proportion as a nations advance in popu.
iation and other circumstances Of matu.
rity, this truth becomes more apparent,
and renders the cultivation Of the soil
more and more an object of public pat.
ronage. n \ Among the means which
have been employed to this end. none
have been attended with greater success
than the establishment of boards, charged
with collecting and diffusing information,
and enabled by premiums and small pecu.
MARY aids, 10 encourage and assist a apir.
it of discovery and Improvement. On
the 10th December. 1899, Washington
addressed long letter to the manager
of his farms last elaborate produc-
tion Of his pen-transmitting plan,
drawn upon thirty written folio pages,
containing directions for their cultivation
for several years to come In seven days
from the date of this letter his own ven.
Grated form was sown a natural body to
! be raised q spiritual body"