American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-10-05
Thssfayller's department
Glorying in the Goad.

Glorylng III the TOAD.
(CONCLUDED.)
tion, in the impessfbilitysof aits i'm
proyemcnt, are not to be turned right
about face by a programme. The
best p6teht cdlfiyator could NOT root
out this main article OF tlfeir creed.
Agricultural College may spread all
his blandisbments; but farmers will
n OF listen to eFeveiee efbtfesehafancrl
charm he never 50 wisely. + +
"Parson Edwards been round with
the s.tefnperanceI ple edge, ,lgs ysI one
old farmer to another.
eyes, answered the latter. "Come
to me. !, asked ~, ssys the, Mr.
Solomon, says Re, T'hav6 You cot my
cider in your sullerY yes Sir
says L. sixteen barrels, good as oy-
er yoa seeia y8d ,1ifot5I don 3 eare
mhcre t is 'Well, says he, 'Mr.
Solomon, my advice to you is, to 90
an apsheiasbaFrelssoeyely one an
en-, an let it rum
"Gucss you told him you'd wait
spell, dianatyQlE.h e Humps Q 4sct
itrun! I kae1o his graa sir! ! Med
dim toad Adyisin to throw my
cidauaNaBi .sIbSN EWr HIS GasANssns
Whenever any amendment is sug-
gcstcd, some gran'sir5 or other VIII
be sure TO bloc'l tlfe way. That he
has been two generations dead, or
that he has no apparent yc9nnectfonl
with the point atsissue, may be indis-
putably proved, but it does not open
the road.
Nor viii the farnpfs sons he pny
more ready to avail themselves Of
their college than the farmers self,
Assaagsneral tang, they. have. either
plowed.thefr own f'urow "in the good
old diabolical way" and walk IN it as
their fathers walked, caring for no
other, or they have acquired so un-
con,fuerablc' D arepugnance 10 the un-
congenial toll that they cannot con
cciye of any plan or process by which
it eanfbe lasaetoaerab le. fgsEk5 +
We want our country soil to be in
tclligcntly and bcnefciolly cultivated.
We desireEttat it rsAsa Z be reFcucd
from ignorance and from quakery,
and placed in the hands Of active in
tellegt.epd f9and sops9. We want
our fnhcr5 to Is #orlci1e-mcn, not
day-aborcr. We want them to be
practical farmers, book-farmers and
gentleaaa-farmele in one. Thelpro-
prictors Of the soil stand at the base
Of society, and should constitute by
tAaaseIgeg an order Of hebility-7but
eclectic, not hereditary. Whenever
a.boy displays a turn for agriculture,
there Is a fit ttasnbiect for agricultural
education, a proper student for an
Agricultural College, whether his fa-
ther was a1merct@t farmer police
men or president. y The
cityis currently said to draw its best
blood from the country. Let the
city pour it back again over field and
meadow, tnrning our wilderness into
gardens. Country and city will be
invigorated by an exchange of com
moditics-tho one giving of its ma
turo,y the other Of its culture x
1t is left for our country to show
the manual and mental skill, strength
cxcrtion and labor are not incompati-
blc-tllat hard hands may eomport
with gracious manners --that one may
be agentleman digging in ditch, as
well as dancing in a drawing-room.
y = = No lover Of his coun-
try, who brings tothis view the same
clemness, and sense which he takes to
political or personal plans, but must
hail as an omen of good the efforts
now making throughout the North in
behalf Of agriculture and education.
GeAesee Fa1mer.s