Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-09-14
The state Fair.

The circular of the State Agricultural BIZ
reau has been issued. announcing an unusual
" attraction list Of premiums The Fair
OPENS on the IIth of October and continues
through the week. The Bureau have put the
grounds in firstrate order, both for the
cOmmodation of visitors aud exhibitors and
every step has been taken TO make the APP
preaching Fair the most extensive and inter
csting that has ever been held in Tennessee.
Let the public but respond to these efforts in
Il becoming spirit, and in the course Of but
very few years, our State Fairs will rival the
most celebrated in the South or West There
is no good reason why the rich and highly
fruitful soil of Tennessee, shall not become
the nursery of the choicest fruits. the granary
of the best seeds of grain and grasses, and her
luxurious pastures the receptacle and home
Of the best thoroughbred stock in the Union.
Davidson county has already borne off the
palm for fine wool, where the shepherds Of
In belle France came down from theirhills with
their most celebrated merinO Tennessee
wheat and flour take precedence Of all others
in the great grain and provision rnarts of this
country and Europe. Our own City Mills
and the Lebanon Mills beat the world at Liv-
erpOol. Our mules and horses vie successful
ly in the markets of the South with those of
our noble sister Kentucky, while our corn
aud tobacco crops find ready and priced ac-
captance wherever they 90. And yet we un-
dertakc to say that Tennessee is not more
than half way down the alphabet Of her re-
sources, in agriculture, horticulture and fruit
culture. And much we have right to
and do pride ourselves in our progress in the
development of our mineral wealth, we feel
satisfied that we have barely passed the Intel,
and are yet halting at the a. b, C, of what is
yet to come. "A glance at the reports Of our
industrious and accurate State Gcologist will
show that the substratum and foundation of
our physically magnificent State is but solid
mass of wealth, in the form Of iron. lead, cop
per, coal. &C. Our statute books are sCrollcd
over with a hundred charters of mining and
manufacturing companies that are wearing
cat by non user.
The most magnificent streams, affording Ii
mitlees water power. guIsh everywhere along
valleys With all the other uucounted natu-
al gifts, our climate is most favorable to the
growths of the field and the labors Of the
workshop. We have but to will our destiny.
We can make it what we choose.
There has been nothing better devised as
yet. to iufuse an active and effective interest
among the people. on these great subjects
than cur annual State Division and County
Fairs They are yet in their childhood. The
State has generously extended its strong arm
to rai'e them up aud support thlm while in
their Infancy; bat their health and prosperity
and success depends greatly more upon the
peOple-frst the world-fecding and supporting
farmers. and next the wOrld-comforting and
luXury-giving mechanics and manufacturers.
Hitherto comparatively few of these classes
have put their shoulders to the wheel TO push
on this majestic car of progress. We must
have a more general diffusion of the spirit of
cntcrpriSe-it must act directly upon and
manifest itself in the individual persons of
tine great mass of producers. We must all
come up with our diversified products in the
spirit of "a high scaled emulation, cOnteuding
who shall do most for our common state. and
thereby do the most for ourselves May we
not appeal 10 our friends throughout the
STATE, and especially to those OF Middle Ten
nessce to come up to the present approaching
Fair, and annually hereafter to make it apart
of LIES duty to sustain and cherish it aud
those of their Divisions and Counties as the !
handma Dis of individual prosperity and the |
general welfare?
As part OF the general system and an
effective arm in the good service we cannot |
neglect to mention the Exhibition of the |
Institute of this city which occurs |
during the same week of the State Fair, and |
will offer splendid attractions. The Fairs OF |
this Institute have b Ell unif rmly most fiat |
tcring to the indsfatigable Officers who have it |
in hand; and its beneficial results almost in ,
Let it also be sustained and cher |
ishcd; and SO that in after years when the !
productive wealth of the State shall be in |
creased ten, twenty or a hundred fold. Ten !
nessee may turn to it, as one OF the pillars of !
her strength. ....