Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-10-04


were introduced into New England in
1924 lu 1929. horses, sheep and goats
we're first brought to Massachusetts, and
in few years they became so plenty as
to supply all the demands of the people.
Arts and manufactures received but little
encouragement beyond the construction Of
such articles as were necessary for the
comforts of life. The first printing in
New England was done by one Day in
1889, and the first thing printed was the
Freeman's Oath, and the next an almanac
At the outset schools were founded, but
there was great difference in the object
of these schools in the Northern and
Southern colonies In New England the
schools were open to aH classes while in
Virginia and the other Southern colonies
these privileges we're extended only to the
higher classes, and in my opinion, this
was the initiatory step to the establish
ment of an aristocracy in the Southern
States. LAS the twig is bent so the tree
inclines."
Thus we find our country in its incep-
tion, vast wilderness, inhabited only by
savages and handful of honest, upright
and liberty loving men and women, con-
tending not only against domestic enemies
for peace, but against foreign oppression,
that the true principles of free govern
ment might be promulgated, and in the
end triumphantly established. But little
was known of agriculture, arts and man.
ufactures. or education, and for many long
and weary years those inoffcnsive men and
women had no guarantee for the safety of
their persons. and hard-earned substance.
except their own physical strength and
undaunted courage and bravery. ....
After the whites had conquered home
and peace was restored, agriculture and
other pursuits were resumed with renewed
z, al, and profit. Farms were cleared and
cultivated, mills erected and worked,
school. houses and colleges built and oc-
cupied, and civilization rapidly advanced
until the colonies increased to the number
of thirteen.
These colonies owed allegiance to, and
were subjects of Great Britain for nearly
ccntury. The mother country held au-
thority and the colonies were forced to
obey. In l704 the first newspaper was
established at Boston and soon. others
were c tablishcd. Arts and manufactures
agriculture and education. seemed to
advance side by side, yet the same dis
tinction was kept up by the northern and
southern colonies, as to what classes
should be educated aud about the year
1890 the different colonies began legisla-
tion upon this subject One of the first
objects of legislation in the northern col
onics was, to provide for the education
of all classes while in the South the ed
ucation of the higher classes only, was
an object of public attention.
The busbandman in those days was
without the modern improvements of to-
day, and what he produced was fairly dug
from the rough earth and uncultivatcd
soil. Trees were felled, and the stumps,
Including the roots, were absolutely dug
from the earth and removed, before any
attempt was made to cultivate the land,
vet sufficient was raised to supply the
wants of the people, and beside this th0il
exports were the source of quite revenue
Wheat, and English grain were the prin.
cipal products of the Middle Colonies
while grain, beef, pork. horses, butter and
cheese, were the chief products of the
Northern Colonies and tobacco, wheat
aud rice Of the Southern. ... A.:
For moment let US reflect. Thes,
colonies have been presented to our view
at time when they we're visited with cru
el and desolating wars: when men, womer
and children we're being butchered indis
criminately, houses being burned, homes
made dcsolate, and the whole land in one
deep sheet Of sad mourning, g,--at the SAINT
time they were advancing in population
extending their commerce. forming new
T settlements, and laying wider and deeper
the foundations OF future great and fret
nation. And while we look back will
satisfied admiration upon the hardy spiri
which carried our ancestors through scenes
so trying, and enabled them to reap pros
, perity from the crimsoned fields Of battl'
and bloodshed, let US be thankful tina
, our lot is cast in happier day.
At this period the farming Interest,"
we're the real and true foundation ant
strength Of the nation. Everybody, al
most, was a farmer, and net only the men
hut the women delighted in the occupa
ton, and while hardy and brave men
{ that day were abroad doing battle 10
cause and country, their noble wives AM
( daughters remained to defend the doml
0 cile' aud till the soil There was n
, time for reflection and experiments in i'm
5 provemepts. but the hands, arms, limb
and bodies. of that day were the labor
doing and not the labor-saving machines
Thus they labored, prayed, improved an