Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1859-09-23

Of every age. w elcOmc all. thrice welcome
This is the day of the people: regular
bread and butter day. Hosts and guests are
one. We come to see and hear what is to
be in the kitchen and the parlor for the com
ing year. What shall! be the order of our
life and how to accomplish it. What is the
size Of potatoes, and how many in hill p
How about the rota (Thank God not sign
Of it yet. Where are the latest cattle, and
how are they fed who has the fastest nag.
and what is his time Let us see the reaper
that rides the field like ship at sea, and cuts
down the yellow corn as the Italaus and
French did the Austrians at Solierno? Is
there any improvement in the people Are
the young to grow up wiser and better than
their fathers !; These are the things VIC de-
sire most to know
We are the people:
Not ono ia for party,
Bat an arc for the State
The rich man helps the poor,
Aud the poor mnn loves the great;
Our land, are fairly pnriioncd,
Our products fairly sold;
Aud We are what our fathers were
In the honest DAYS Of old
We come Just as we are. There is no
shame in us. II we arc incorporate, profit
gate, idle, vicious, dsordely, you will see it.
If VIC are quiet, inquisitive and Interested.
II one vainly seeks for disorder with police
man out Of Unemployment to aid him, you will
know it. It's vain for multitude to assume
virtues to which it has no title They have
life interest in all things here. It's by them
we live in the tirumphs of industry over all
obstacles in our hope of prosperity and hap
piness As you make an immediate pecuniary
interest predominant in all parties to industri-
al exhibitions, you will greatly enlarge the
scope of enquiry and experiment Profitable
sales are better for tho produoosr than high
premiums and the judgment of those who back
thcir opinions by planking the Rhino will be
more satisfactory than the awards of commits
sioners for the producer and the consumer
should be brought together. They cannot
fail to suggest the necessity of close inquiry to
those interests as to the best methods of cul-
ture, appropriation for exhibition, and upon
such an interest it will be easy to engraft an
earncstness of investigation that is now sell
dom or never known.
The great triumph of the worlds exhibit
ton at London was less in articles presented
for inspection than in the Lectures upon the
progress of art and science delivered by Play
fair, Whewell, De la Place, and other savans,
upon the general influence of the exhibition
upon processes and products, novel architcc-
ture and kindred subjects delivered by request
OF the Council of Arts. II would be fortunate
if we could engraft upon our system of ex-
hibitions, similar lectures upon subjects which
relate to national prosperity. Would not
this be accomplished by coupling the interests
of trade with the inquisitiveness Of curiosity
BY such means assemblies could be enlisted
for longer periods, and directed to higher
ends than at present. tits rational desire
that seeks to couple rational pleasures with
such popular exhibitions. Physical recrea-
ton is essential TO our mental and moral
culture. 1t is as essential for artisans and
farmers to have a man with a voice like a
willow whistle, that can be transformed to a
fnll-chested and sturdy lunged stentor. whose
tiny limbs and puny frame, by exercise and
right living, may attain something of the ten
dons and flesh of Hercules, as to know by
what process cattle may be reared for market
in years instead Of six. Why are not men
of as much consequence to the world as the
most delicious tender loin steaks One who
can hear a musket shot at his ear without
moving a muscle of his face, has an attribute
of power which none of us have and at the
first public disaster, a riot or conaagration, or
scene Of danger, we see the propriety of his
INNING NfNi NNos ~ tNtll man khtW MS
full capacity of power, it would be different
world in which we live Measure us" would
be our constant cry.
The introduction of music was urged as
another element of culture. The usual ac-
compartment of industrial assemblies and of
all American festivals is plentiful supply of
public addresses, followed by poor dinners,
usually, and then-more speeches. No occa-
sion is free from this public speaking, no sense
OF propriety restraints us, and the only rule
that seems to be implicitly followed, is that
the less it seems to be required, the more we
have. He put in protest for the speakers
1t was not always their seeking. Those who
rule the world do it by other than oratorical
powers. This is true of all its leaders. He
made wide distinction between rhetoric and
talk Plain talk is mighty. 1t has the same
relation to ideas that oratory has to sound
IL creates men. not only those who are talked
at but those who talk
Jeilerson's system of Agricultural Societies
was taken up and considered--the multipli-
cation of town societies-which would thus
embrace the entire community In conclusion
he advocated more socialty and freedom
We were too stolid and sober grew old too