Daily national Democrat., 1860-09-07

VV.
Ii's Georgcs in the grand old Roman tongIe
Or delhed Triptolemus revealed
ne my sterles in Ceres breast concealed.
UT Egypts kings their pyramids upreared
10 brave old Time and dark Oblivion feared;
Vr eer old Chinas wall stupendous rose,
long ages since, gainst barbarous Tartar foes:
Or eer the Parsee worshiper of fire
his affairs lit where Elbrooz heights aspire:
Or Atrlc Carthage built grim Moloch 5 throne.
Or Ninevah arose or Babylon,
The plow, presager of the Arts, was known!
Fair Plenty trode and paid swart Labor back
Ientold his toll for in those days, as now,
The Earth was kind to him who drave the blow.
With Agriculture sprang whate'er in Art
Has raised the mind or purified the heart
Whate er in Science hath exalted man
And goriied him since the world began;
And still to Agriculture do we trace
The first, faint gleam Of progress in the race.
The Nations justly vaunted now and great -
Old days beheld them in the hunter state,
When clad in skins, and quivers on their backs
They followed on the wild decr's bounding tracks
Or sought through wood and brake and fen.
! me herce and gnashing boar within his den;
Or earned slim subsistence by the shore
Or lakes and rivers with their scaly store.
Tanned by the sun and dew, their beaten forms
| a1'iii n"iuSi iA-tu III WluIy WlnuS ana storms,
Nor homes had they save where they nightly
found
Chance lodging on the bare, ungrateful ground
Small share was here, ween, of luxury
Nor downy couch, nor cushioned seat had they
Smile not-such were our own rude ancestry
Next came the pastoral days, when men less roved
But pitched their camps by pleasant springs, nor
moved
I'LL pastures failed or rival Aocks their bounds
DID press, intrusive on their chosen grounds
Still, twas rowing live, surrounded too
by foes and daily dangers not few,
For force gainst force those days prevailed, and
laws
Were none, and each mans arm made good his
cause.
But came in turn the third and better state.
With cheering omens of higher fate.
Then, did the restless Nomad cease to roam
His hardships DER, he found at last his home.
From year 10 year he still improved his land.
TIL beautiful it grew beneath his hand.
And laden vine aud bleating hocks' increase
And waving fields gave all his days to peace
Few fears alarmed him, for he knew the soil
Would aye repay with generous yield his toll.
Around him grew, with hope and oy elate
His children fair that crowned his biest estate.
And near him soon new fields and cots were seen
Where late the broodiug wilderness had been
Then grew up mutual interests and needs,
And all that such community succeeds.
Against the still untamcd and savage man
The armed alliance of the few began,
And soon Society on mutual wants arose
With peace at home and guards against its foes
New wants still with the social fabric grew,
And needful laws as complicate as new,
Thus government was formed and every man
Was safe and happy in the general plan
Secure in property and life, each wrought
In his own way and ends congenial sought.
IhuS liked IN homes, could be no spoilers prey
Each gave his sep'rate faculties free play,
And soon Invention various needs supplied
And luXures to hardier times denied
Meantime like states in other lands had grown,
With laws, inventions, products of their own
What lacked one cline another cline possest
And each could still contribute to the rest
Thus Commerce rose, and, stimulating art
Gave impulse to Invention and new start
To all improvements that a Nation raise
And make peoples glory, wealth and praise.
Upgrew from rude beginnings like to these
Those States renowned along the Tuscan seas,
And she who sat by Theirs yellow tide
In pomp of riches and imperial pride.
Thus sprang those capitals Of Eastern lands,
Long buried in the deserts'shifting sands,
Whose fallen, rescued monuments avow
In sculptured yoke and herogyphic pillow,
Their debt to agricultural toll. They fell
As fell the grand old Rome-because too well
They loved the hammered pomp of conquerng war,
While fought the soldier at despot's WILL
The rusting pow within the field stood STILL
And hosts, returning from avauquiShed land,
Spread vice and luxury on every hand.
For every soldier on the tented plain
One less to prune the vine and sow the grain,
And armies coun ed by the million leave
Broad fields to waste that years will not retreyc
AS on the other continent on this
With Agriculture came true happiness,
And man advanced by sure and slow degrees
From savage toll and strife to rest and ease
As Englund was in Alfred's time (The Great
So civilized was Montezuma's state,
And burning bright his fair and peaceful star,
When Cortez came with red right hand of war.
Let truth impartial say if happier now
Is that historic land, than when the plow
Was smoothly gliding through the furrowed plain,
And waved the far Cordilleras with grain,
And rolled the deep canals with streams that blest
A thousand homes in Eden beauty drest,
And all the realm, from mountain slope to main,
Was far, in Montezumas golden reign?
Was art, that built those cities vast less art
Because of Aztec genius twas part?
Was patient toll, that led thrO' channels deep,
And aqueducts, and long the rocky steep,
The streams thousand fertile fields supplied,
Less toll, because no white mans arm was tried ?
Were peace and plenty but the Spaniard's right?
The Aztec 6ar6arouS because not aOhHe
As much and more the arts of peace had done
For Perus realm,-sott children of the Sun.
For, long before the white mans foot had pressed,
Or north or south, the Continent of the West,
The Inca S sway had civilized Peru
A land as happy the world eer knew
Twas not her temples blazing rich with gold,
And showerinS light from starry gems untold
Her palaces OF gorgeous pomp and pride
Where safe her rich-robed lncas, deifed
Her golden statues and her carvings rare
OF bird and reptile on the FURNISHED ware,
That made the glory Other tranquil state,
And almost won for her the title great
1t was her homes, by many winding ril
BY rivers wide, in vale, on terraced hill,
Where grew the waving corn, or wand'ring fed
The fieecy 6ocks by watchful shepherds led;
Her pleasant cots, where, sheltered from the sun,
Peruvian wives and damsels sat and spun,
Or wove their plumaged pictures-from the wings
Of tropic birds of rare ard beauteous things,
Or through the looms ingenious workings fast
The Alpacca's fleece with skillful fingers passed.
Let paler nations vaunt themselves and praise
Their slow advancement from the savage days;
If government is wsest that's designed
For good of greatest number of the kind,
Methnks no just philosophy will scan
With scornful eyes the Peru Indians plan
policy which gave with equal hand
To each his due proportion of the land
And each his share of whatthe general toll
Produced from manufacture or the soil,
As labor was enjoined on all, so none
Could suffer when the seasoned work was done.
AS all too labored duly for the State,
lfsckness fell or any evil fate,
The State provided, not as charity
But right, for him whose former industry,
Still looking to the common veal in this,
Had swelled her Golfers and her granaries.
In all the realm no subject could be poor
But peace and plenty sat at each mans door.
No happier lot the poets dream can find,
Nor Art nor Science reach for human kind.
Not all the Old Worlds civ izaton vast,
Nor yet our own, the grandest and the last,
To that one eliminating point has come,