Daily national Democrat., 1858-08-26
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congratulation to you, its members and sup
pOrters, and still deeper to the entire State.
How shall we express our happiness thel
when we consider that this is the FIFTH AN
NIvERsARY of the Society, in State not ye
ten years of age; this, too, when these shores
we're not sought to till the ground, but t,
lay it waste in scattering its soil in search o
its golden sands. All we're worshipping
the shrine of Plutus, and
"Cerss was not a goddess in the land"
Now, within five years, she has divided thu
Empire with her rival-her bounteous horI
of plenty, more ravishing, more inexhausti
BILE than the gold-enclosing caves and beds o.
her rival-have won the love, not only o.
YOU, her sons and daughters, but have com
inanded the homage of the dwcllers of al
lands. With the power of geomctrica pro
gresson, the conquest grows by what it feeds
on, until behold upon your tables gold, and
its mother quartz, taken from the shrine o
Plutus; the handicraft of the Artizan and the
Artist, taken from the shrines of Vulcan and
Minerva-all brought offerings to the AL
tar and the throne of Ceres.
Five years ago! how we'll l remember the
occasionI What efforts the few friends OF
the enterprise had to make, to get together
that commencement. Their names it might
now De lnYlulOub ISpOdb--1 lCuhG luGlI uOH-
or to later history.
What has grown into this great exhibition
was then put into a small room in the city Ol
San Francisco. To make some sort of a show
and to fill the vacant spaces in the room
fruits and productions were imported from
our sister lands, and from the isles of the
sea; and the artisan work was conspicuous
ly arrayed Full Dress of a Feejee Isander! "
she whole about square foot, imported from
the workwams of that enlightened race.
The productions of our soil were few, but
they we're marvellous. Bects whose length
we measured by the yard Pumpkins whose
capacity we measured by the bushel, it might
be proper to say by the barrel Single po-
tatoes by the pound. Cabbage, ! have for.
gotten; but, lit seems to ME, by the English
stone, by the single head. Single turnips by
the quarter of cwt And thus TO the end.
Filled with what saw, wrote to friend
in the Atlantic States, stating some of the
weights and the measures OF our vegetable
productions. At length his reply came back
Too courteous and well-bred to give square
expression to his incredulity, he remarked
that he was sorry our weights were so liSth
and our measures so short in California
And in relation to certain berries that had
compared to hens eggs, he sincerely pited
US that our eggs were so small, especially
as he hadl heard they were very dear in our
country.
Those few specimen seedlings, all gathered
within an upper room, and room to spare,
have produced the teeming, glorious harvests
We see spread before US to-day, unparalleled,
we sincerely believe, for variety, size and
quality on the globe.
But that we may learn the appropriate les
sons of the occasion, it becomes necessary
for us to look at our thoughts and mental
problems arranged into system. And our
first position is
POSITION l.
WITHOUT AGRIcULrURE THERE IG NO En-
LIGHTENMENT.
We might rather say without Agricultural
Societies; for we must have the collision Ut
intcllects. or there is no thought. We must
compare, or there are no ideas. No ideas
awake but by comparison. We must inspect,
collate, debate, emulate. compete, rival, car
ry off premiums. The very disputes, con-
tensions, quarrels, il you will, inherent in
the very nature of all such Societies, are abb
solute essentials to progress. PEACE is stag
nation, and stagnation is DEATH.
As we stand and live on our great Mother
Earth. so the whole fabric of enlightened life
stands upon Agriculture. Not because it
feeds our bodies, but because of its moral and
philosophic forces, as we'll as its physical.
Egypt was the first cradle of Agriculture;
it was therefore the first cradle OF civlizt-
ton. The Israelites, the chosen people, were
no exception to the rule. They, in their ear
ly career, did not till the soil. They had to
be taken down into Egypt to learn Agricul
ture, or they would have been barbarians
pho HraaL nd tha Ron,on wOulH ha aVn han
barbarian had they not imported the Agrcul-
ture and the consequent civilization Of Egypt
and Judea. Thine and mine-thy fee simple
my fee simple, in spot OF grounds
omnipotent in producing enlightened life.
The boundary fences, the exact acres ,roods.
yards and feet-the precise line of my land
and thy land-are the talisman, that, first of
all, converted wild and savage men into en-
lightened and mighty nations.
Had we no other evidence that Rossean and
his so-called philosophy we're hallucination,
this would be suficient-that he denounced
the man who first invented "meum and
tuum"-mine and thine. Had there been no
such invention, Rosseau had never lived TO
moraze. Had he lived at ALL he would
have been less than our Diggers.
The fee simple Farm-ts owner upon it
cultivating it himself. 1t is-it is-it has
no comparison. ANY comparison would
weaken it. Men are hordes-mere tribes
men are mere beasts without it. 1t is the
mother Of stability, With infinite progression.
1t is the mother of wealth-the mother Of
Law and Order-the mother of Manufactures,
Commerce, Arts and the Fine Arts. From
this source spring the great emotions of the
soul, Patriotism, and those from whence come
schools, churches, Science and Religion,
long life, strong life, abundance, population.
Without it, the globe could never be popua
ted, for the earth could only sustain here aud
there drove of men.
Pioneering tends to barbarism, because it
tends to rowing. Pioneering is almost Buc
caneeringl We are Pioneers; and yet see
here, this early and davout attention to
Agriculture-this Society and its happy in
huences upon us-and we are the mildest
hammered Buccaneers of history. What had
this State been without it2 The present
generation might have survived, in some
sort OF repute, from the force of early edu
eauon; but the generation to come would
nave been as the present Arab to the ancient
osracen; the present Mexican to the ancient
Spanish Cavalier.
Without Agriculture, there is no wealth.
Goid Is not wealth it is its onvenient rep
resentative Commerce produces no wealth
1t simply exchanges it. Manufactures and
The Arts, re-cOmbine it. Agriculture is the
prollhc mother of wealth the rest simply
handle it when it is produced and delivered
into their hand. The Earth of itself origi
nally, spontaneously produces wherewith to
keep the race of Man from starving-only
whist he is making ready to till the soil.
without 1t, he soon eXhausts nature, and eX
hausts himself He soon degenerates into