The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1859-04-30
Gl)e Gssapist.
For The Cecil Wing.
TO Farmers, and their Sens.


"THE KING HIMSELF Is SEyRED by THE FIELD.
How truthful, and how inspiring AS in
the days when the Preacher wrote, so now,
we are all. from the mcanest sert to the noblest
king, from the humb!cst citizen to the Pres-
dent, dependent on the product Of the soil.
The heart of every farmer should leap at the
thought Of this; and how noble, and happy,
and independent they should feel to know
that their care and good management, (wtll
the blessing Of Proyidcnce), rests the we'll
being of, not only til mselvcs, but Of all the
creatures of the land. But alas how few
seem to appreciate the nobleness of their
vocation! Many look on farming us the last
resort; whereas, it is the loltiest hralthiest,
happiest, and most independent employment
allotted to man. The farmer receives his
sustenance direct from the hand Of God
That the tillage Of the soil should be looked
on with indifference and contempt by those
unacqnainted with the pleasures melted by
the sight Of fields Of waving grain, and with
the feelings produced by the thought Of fun
gamers; by those who have never experienced
the healthfulness and happiness accruing from
early rising, steady and earnest labor, and
ealy retiring, is not surprising; but that
farmers. who are cognizant Of all these things,
should believe, and teach their children to
believe, that the pursuit of Agriculture is one
of the lowest, and least rcmunrrativr Of
employments, is Il fact t. be lamcntcd. 1t is
one of the :: Popular Errors,,' and as such. it
is the duty of every lover of his country to do
all in his power to correct it.
1t is one Of the fixed and unalterable laws
OF God that man shall labor; that sin the
sweat Of thy face thou shalt eat bread" And
in every land under the sun, labor and toll are
necessary to wealth, health and happiness
and the peace and welfare of society. Many
cherish the idea of becoming rich in day.
"Deluded and deceived by phantom appear
ances," the farmer, and his son, are often
induced to forsake the pillow, and Z" embark in
some Wild goose chase for wealth, some giraffe
scheme for gaining the smiles Of the god OF
gold, instead Of being content to toll along in
the old and sure way. adding from time to
time, to tho increasing fund deposited il bank,
or invested in stocks.' But they soon find
their ideas of procuring wealth in so short
time, and by SO easy a method, to be only
chimerical. l know that sometimes by the
purchase of lottery ticket, the throw OF il
die, the turn Of a card, or some commercial
Speculation, poor man is, in day, made
rich, and at once raised from indulgence to
wealth, from obscurity to opulence; but
such cases arc exceptions, and rare, to the
general rule; and seldom fail to be a curse to
those who receive them, or their children who
inherit them.
Let the farmers, and their sons, look where
they may, either in their own experience, or
in the biographies of those men who have
assembled from the lowest depths of squuldity
and want to the lofticst SUBMITS of honor and
affluence, and they will find that those men
did not acquire their wealth and honor in
large windlalls, lottery Investments hazardous
speculations, or other schemes for sudden
opuence, but that they gained them by hard
and honest toll, and by their correct and
punctual business transactions. The opinion
which is abroad that in the cities there is a
better chance for a young man to become
wealthy and honorable than there is in the
country, is very incorrect and mischievous
one. A few succeed there; but where one
does, ten do not. The fact that the cities arc
crowded with their own boys, is entirely over
looked by parents, and young men. All snc
should read attentively the V Propos itiou OF
Hon. II. Greeley's article in The Ledger:
g In the city, you always seem to he in
other peoples way. If you are eminently
successful in business, you flourish at the
expense of less fortunate rivals. If you find
employment as clerk or journeynlan. some
one else, who sought and desired the situa.
ton, is disappointed and damaged by YOU
success. There are always too many peopl.
trying to live in the city than can find
work, or make living. Hence, failure
dependency, addiction to drink; md ne
often in virtual, sometimes in palpable
sucide.''
Now this is no fancy sketch, but true
picture. The pernicious idea that in the cit,
money can be made faster than in the country
is annually sending hundreds to an untimel,
grave! Not only are the opportunities nc
greater, but the temptations to vice ard CRIME
are tenfold; the tempter besets them OF
every side.
There is, also, another very false and
injurious opinion abroad: that the farmer
the mechanic, and the artizan, are not respect
able. Therefore, many parents strain every
nerve to get their sons into some one OF the
learned professions; often without any regarc
to their talents for such positions. AS sui
fciaht REPUTATION to the theory of labor moi
being respectable, and as a true picture o