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together-and are made to support and sustain each

together-and are made to support and sustain each
other,
There will always be, to some extent absurd pre-
JUDGES of one class against another. But he can
never be true patriot-but always, an enemy to
his country and her best interests, who endeavours
to array the poor against the RICH or the rich again
the poor, or any one class Of society against another
in a country like ours whers all honest labor is
honorable, where the poor and humblest may attain
the highest distinction and the greatest wealth, and
where, thank sod and the wisdom which establish
ed and secured our liberties; we have no franks"
in society and none but the true nobility of nature
and of worth 1t is a striking fact in the history
of nations and especially of the free that the
who have controlled the destinies of empire have
generally been born and raised in the country
yond the temptations and corrupting tendencies of
large cities, in which there is constant tendency
to human degeneracy arrested only by an incessant
and ever fresh infusion of population from the coun-
try the never failing source from which they must
be replenished.
The rural districts always have, and always will
rule this great country. The lives of own great
men, strikingly illustrate this truth. Our Wash
ington Jefferson, Madison, jackson, Clay, Calhoun
and Webster, and bright galaxy of other eminent
names, of the living and the dead were all reared
in the retirement of country life and scenes and
when full of honors and of fame, still loved their
rural homes where they were proud to live and
wished to die 1t is we'll that it should he So 1t is
to the country we may safely look for all those
happy and expanding influences on the character
its energies and affections, the minds hearts and
bodies which fit men to be good citizens of great
Republic While Agricultural life tends to localze
bur affections and make one love the soil he owns
himself, as almost any one may do here and at the
same time increases and enlarges our patriotism,
and makes us ready to defend and to die, if ne
cessary, for our country, our homes and our nre-
sides.
Educate your children them and educate more of
your sons to lire in the country and become firm
ers-intelligent, skiyul farmers, abe to thu the
Earth and to keep it. | do not mean that they
should be Professors or Lecturers on farming and
the Science of Agriculture Mere theorists however
valuable their knowledge in the hands Of practical
men rarely make good farmers or succeed in any
branch of practical industry. But | mean they
should have knowledge, yea, scientific knowledge
of the business in which they are to be engaged
know something, yea great deal about soils and
vegetation-the qualities of the plant and the ca,
pacities of the ground and learn how to make two
blades of grass grow where blu: one grew before =
to know much of nature and her immutablc laws
Let sound practical judgement be assisted by an
intelligent use of that knowledge which wc4l-edu
Gated and well Uniformed mind alone can give. Let
we'll directed common be the basis of all ac
ton as it is the foundation Of all success, whether
in Agriculture or Mechanism. in the learned prnfeS
sons, in the battlefield or the Cabinet in States
manShip and diplomacy. Genius may conceive but
talent and knowledge and sound common sense mus
execute and lead to that success which is the surcs
and most iniable test of true ability in whatever
department of life.