Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-09-27
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Gov. Andrew at the New England Fair

Gov. Andrew at the New England Fair.
Gov. Andrew, oil Massachusetts,, delivered the
address al the recent New England Fair at
Springfield. 1t Was most admirable speech
and we cannot give the farmers better reading
than by copying below such portions Of it as We
have room Tor.
She liz to be- in the long and trancendent flu
ture of the republic, the great conserving innu-
ence among the States For nearly two centu-
ries anda half, already, have her people KEPT the
vestal-tire Of personal and pubic liberty bright
ly burning in her little town .dom0cracies. ODE.
dent to order, and practclng industry, rs well
as loving individual freedom, they have acquired
at last an instinct which dIseriminates between
license and liberty between the passion OF IN
hour, and The solemn Authorizations Of law Ihey
possess the traditions OF liberty they inherit
ideas OF government, they bear about IN their
blood and IN their bone the unconscious tendon
cles of each, which rise almost TO the dignity
Of recolectlons, and which are more enpha tic
and more permanent than opinions. BY the
toll OF more than seven generations, they have
acquired aud hold IN free tenure their titles and
possessions.
The dignity of the freehold, the sacrednees
OF the family the sOemuty OF religious obliga-
ton, the importance Of developing the intellect
by education, the rlghtul authority Of govern.
ment. the rightiulness Of property larly earned
or inherited, as f0wlng from the inaienable
seli-ownershlp OF man, and the inprescripuble
rights OF human nature the freedom OF worship,
the idea OF human duty, expanded and enforced
By the consciousness OF an immortal nature, are
alike deeply imbedded in the traditions and con
victlons OF the immense and controlling majority
of our people.
II there is aught which men deem radicalism,
or they lear as dangerous speculation, in our
theology or our politics, call mankind to bear
witness that there is no child so humble that he
may not be taught in all the leaning Of the
schools, no citizen 80 poor that he may not as
pre- TO any Of the rewards OF merit for honOra-
BILE exertlon, not one so weak as to TALL below
tho equal protection OF equal laws, not one sc
lofty us TO challenge their restraints no church
or bishop able to impose creed or ritual on til.
unconylnced conscience no peaceful, pious wor
ship which is unprotected by the state. rhii
liberty stands, and the law supports liberty
popular education lends intelligence 10 law, anC
gives order to liberty while religion, unlettereC
by human arbitration between the soul of mar
aud the throne OF the Infinite is left free to i'm
press the individual conscience with all tn,
sanction OF it's supreme b1hests aud of It's cees
tial teachings
Your past history is record Of many great
lives and great actions OF men. to our way o
thinking now-Oilentimes found narrow and
even obstinate, but yet heroic and sincere o
generations worthy to bear along and hand dowG
the precious seeds from which have sprung tht
ideas and institutions which give dignity and
welfare TO the nation.
Agrcullursts, ye0man of New England, BE-
faithful TO her ideas, TO her history, her instltu
tlons and her character Behold and adorr
your Sparta Reclaim and cultivate the un.
titled lands which still comprise more than two.
thirds the area of the six New England States
Deepen aud widen the foundations OF your sem
Inarles and schools of learning. Encourage
genius as we'll as industry. Invite hither, and
hold here, the profound thinkers, the patient
students OF nature, those tiroless watchers whC
wait upon the stars or weigh the dust upon az
insects wing. Discard aud discourage alike
prejudice OF Ignorance and the conoeits oil learn.
ing
Remember that, even TO- day, there is no man
so wise that he understands the relation of any
fertilizer to any crop, that few have ever oh.
served the mystery OF that wonderful Influence
OF the first impFegnation OF the dam upon the ia.
ture offspring VI whatever sire that the origin
aud contaglon Of the cattle disease, pleuro-pneu.
monia, remain hitherto without adequate scen-
tile exploration that the practical farmers and
men Of science. all combined, understand as
little the destructive potato.rot, which con-
Germs the economy OF every farm and every
household, as the aborlgines who first deserted
the Mayfower understood of the poems Of lilo.
mer or the philosophy OF Aristotle.
Not undertaking the past achievements OIL
science, remember how infinite the extent and
variety OF the conqucsts which yet remain TO her
Let me exhort you also 10 bear in mind, that
the great discoyerere of knowledge are like
prophets, appearing but seldom, and on great &C
oasions that all genius is an Intellectual cen
fury plant, and that be WIN would make the
time great, aud the people noble, must not CON
found the mere distribution oil eommOn-p place
facts elementary or traditional knowledge, with
those conquesis and acquisitions which How from
patient and original explorations.
The USES AND INFLUENCES OF rRug LEARNING,
The uses and the influence Of true learning.
the power which flows rom is sincere cultya.
ton, are 30 great and enduring, that were il a
task and not oil delight, would not cease 10
urge and advocate in this presence the duty
which is imposed on people possessing the op
portunities OF our own. 10 all peoples, TO oil
sections as to each individual man. are open
their separate careers. They can forfeit Their
places, but they can scarcely exchange them
You VI New England, may forget that you arr
vi the stock that produced Jonathan Edwards
but sou cannot make the cotton plant flourish
10 New Hampshire.