The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-10-24

and operator is the owner, interested
for life In success and profit: its
habits of life must be plain and sim
pie and frugal. The next essential
thing to farming, instead Of plant
ing, in Virginia, is: That Virginians.
if they would not be driven out from
their own inheritance, should them
selves do this wcri, Of farming for
themselves. They must not call on
Hercules, nor freedman, nor Ger
man, nor Swede, nor immigrant from
any cline; but they must put their
own shoulders to the wheel, and do
the task of men for themselves.
What is to prevent the young men at
once from snmmoning their energies
to brace themselves to the great task
OF renovation at the very source of
succor and supply? They have lust
been trained to all the hardships and
privations of privates in war. Have
! not seen them in day put off the
broad-cloth of the parlor for the
glorious gray" AMI march and BIZ
viouac in ice and snow and rain, in
heat and cold, in want and WEAKNESS.
and, when well worn down, rouse in
an instant with fresh life and vigor
to fight as men never fought before
for this, their loved land, and so
march in mud and fight for years to
tine last? I tell them, and would tell
1t with trumpet-tongue as loud as
that of war, if I could, that their
country, 'their own, their native
land" their hearths and altars and
cradle, no less now than in war. calls
on them to bare their arms and buff
fet with these times.
Here Is souie most excellent advice
to the young men of the South:
He advised the landholders of the
State to give every encouragement to
our own white labor, and the young
men of the State to apply themselves
TO the study of agriculture as
science, if they would save the real
estate of their fathers and keep
sacred the altars of their own BIRTH
places and homes. It is far more
honorable to do this than to skulk
into professions by the back door and
become pettifogging lawyers and
quack doctors, who practice their
arts to rob clients or kill patients; or
to seek soft places in clerkships, or
drumming, or running, or standing
and waiting at the beck and call of
somebody else's business. It is much
more respectable, and certainly more
independent.
He appealed to the manly, proud,
brave and strong men of the State,
who had neither means nor settled
pursuits, to adopt agriculture as
business.
He spoke of the Importance of the
establishment of chairs in our differ
ent colleges for instruction in aeri-
cultural science; of the necessity of
Immigration; of the propriety of
dividing large tracts of lands into
small farms; the different systems of
labor, and of the inevitable result of
proper and persistent pursuit of the
ideas he had inculcated.
"The old man eloquent" concluded
his address with O beautiful invoca-
ton to his mother State, and urged
her to be brave and strong, append
ing the two following cheering stan
Zas:
'Never despair! the darkest cloud
That ever lowered will pass away;
The longest night will yield to dawn
The dawn sill kindle into day.
What, if az Id thy lonely bark
Break fierce and high the waves of
Stretch every oar! there's land ahead
And thou wilt gain the port to-
morrow.
''The farmer knows not of his fields,
With floods, or drought, or blight
must cope;
He questions not the tickle skies,
But ploughs, and sows, and tolls in
hope
Then up! and strive, and dare, and
do,
No doubt harvest thou wilt gather;
Ills time to labor, and to wait,
And trust in God for genial
weather!'