Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-05-13
Home Industry.


upon the National Map, when compared with
tho great State and Territorial domain, but
she is, nevertheless, possessed of constitution
with pulses perfectly attuned, and beating a
happy hum to healthy organization. The
State is one of few social distinctions among
her people. No overloaded boards nor brothels
of vice and misery characterize her history
She shares less in the excitements and upheav-
ings of the financial world-neither accumula-
ting with reckless speculation, nor losing with
the panic. Her people are industrious laborers,
who dig their gold and potatoes alike from the
soil they possess. Her political influence is more
from the hardy race of Green Mountain Boys,
educated to industry and morality, which she
sends to the border, than through scheming and
corruption. Her pursuit is emphatcally UMPIRE
tending, rural and peaceful : and the great lever
of power is her industry. To this, more than
all other influences combined, is due her high
position occupied upon all subjects pertaining
to social life. All her affairs are managed by
The people themselves. Progress and Reform
are stamped imperishably upon their hearts.
Evils may find a small encouragement for time,
but the great balance of power is in favor of a
strict morality.
And while Vermont is, by her position, ex-
Guided from participating in the great CONNER
cial interests of the sea coast. and cannot share
in the rapid advancement attending the quick
growth of cities and population of the West,
she should and will have equally potent objects
for her ambition. And we see them developing
in her agricultural resources and her education
all moral and social institutions. Agriculture
is attracting far greater proportion of discus
sion. Inventions, Improvements, and expert
pments are doing much, aod will do more, for
the advancement of the chief pursuit of the
citizens of Vermont. Her fine horses, cattle,
sheep and swine are the admiration of all ad-
mrers. Her highly-cultiyated farms are an en-
viable source of delight But not enough yet
is said upon this subject. We read what Agri-
culture is doing a few degrees further south,
where one week makes a vast difference with the
planting of field or West, where wide
spread prairie and sweeping winds, with differ
ing soil and timber, renders wholly different
process indispensable. But this is not the right
information for Vermont. Vermontcrs them
selves should give the result of their expert
ments to their neighbors, and receive the same
pay in return. Sefshness nor envy should be
no part of free people. The State should be
for general education, and if need be the cree
ton of a college for the study of Agriculture
watching carefully the still small influences
thrown around her children, and look well to
the formation of their habits.
Vermont may give birth to noble enterprise,
which shall astonish the world by proper di
rection of her Notwithstanding her sons and
daughters to habits of morality and industry,
and converting her institutions and silent in1u
ences into sources of more good, and her soil
into almost an Eden. Let us look more at home
less abroad. Let us spend our energies in
making our own State a model-encouragi
home industry as far as possible, nurturing our
own science and literature, and building our
own glory. Then shall we exert that all-potent
influence in a glorious National reform, and
raising the standard of human life to far no.
bier and higher position.