The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-10-14
Che penrOerat.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES L
A. McGREGoR, EDITOR.
Address of Governor Seymour Before
the Saratoga County, (H. " Fair.

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cultural development, was delivered
recently by HoRATIo SEYMoUR-we
append couple of extracts, also some
remarks from the National IIltellige,l-
Ger. Governor Seymour said:
"The man VINO allows himself to
live in ignorance looks up into the
heavens and sees q waste studded
with glittering stars at night, or hgh-
ted up by the mid day sun. He notes
the changes of the weather and sees
with but little concern objects that
have lost their novelty. The man of
education, looking in the same direc-
tion, sees numberlCss worlds swinging |
through vast realms of space; he |
finds in the contemplation of the !
heavenly bodies, their huge dimen- |
sions, their enormous distances, sub
jects of thought which fill his mind |
with awe, enlarge his faculties, and
lift him up into the scale of existence.
1t cannot then be said that the edu-
Gated and ignorant man looks upon
the same heavens. The ground be-
meath our feet is to ones unmeaning
mass of earth and rock; there is no
significance to his mind in its broken
surface, it mountain ranges or its deep
valleys, except as they may help or
hinder him in the dull routine of life,
while he plods vacantly on over their
surface. But the same earth is to an
educated man great record of the
past, wherein he finds traced out the
evidences of vast changes and wOn-'
derful existences. The hills and
Mountains are not to him unmeaning
elevations, for he knows the law
which heaVed them up; he has learn
ed the order i, which their rocky ba-
ses were formed he knows the STRAIT
ifications beneath his feet he is IA
miliar with the fossil remains of ami
NAL existence, more strange and
hideous than were ever dreamed OF
by the most diseased imagination ; he
FEELS that he stands at all times upon
, q marvellous record which quickens
his Imagination and gives him endless
food for thought. The beauties Of
J nature, its fresh and green foliage, its
varied forms are dimly seen by all !;
but it is only those who have cultiva-
ted their tastes and those who have
studied the laws of vegetable life who
see and feel the full beauty of their
structure and the endless variety of
their forms, their modes OF growth, or
the methods by which they perpetu-
, ate their eXistenceS. The animal life
: that swarms in the air, moves upon
! the surface Of the ground, or lives in
streams and floods is not less wonder
ful, and offers to US a subject OF pleas
ant and healthful studies. might
follow out this comparison between
. the condition of the educated and the
{ ignorant, and to show how different
! are the worlds in which they live
{ The splendors and the wonder:
. around US can easily be seen by all
, ahd he who has unlocked the door
: and has entered this marvellous muse
= = um of nature need not have wealth
a nor unusual ability to live in home
full furnished with all that is culcu
lated to please our taste, to give full
exercise to our minds. to improve oul
. hearts; and to fit US for lives Of virtue
IS and usefulness here and of happines!
z hereafter"
's He then continues:
1.-The Almighty has been too kinC
to demand of any one for their hap
b. piness that which is beyond thei
reach. But he does require them,
,. they would enjoy the beauties Of Hi
q world, that they should open thei
eyes and look. He does demand,
they would have habits of though
and mental pleasures, that they sho'
cultivate their powers of observatio
anG learn the lessons which He trit
2: to teach them in every busn {
OF flower, in every stone and stream IAN
OF in all animated nature that surround
them. 1t needs no more knowledg
than every man can gain who wi
look and think to make rural life fu
of enjOyments. He who will not {
Nv this wrongs and cheats himself.
ls2ss the order Of nature, a love Of il
.ss Ss country is a natural enjoyment in Ol
Dr. declining yerrs. All men shou
en- bear in mind that their tastes outli'
.ble their intellectual powers.
sgia They should therefore cultiva
those tastes which can be easily gra
=, fed, that are not inconsistent WI
weakness of age, which make !
heavy demands upon our powers,
-. which we hold by Bn uncertain te
90 ure. Objects of art or wealth are f
!, ara quently stripped from men VIII
their powers begin to fail, but he W
loves Gods works IS happy in t
lie scenes of nature, has pleasures me
tie, certain and lasting than fortune c
give. 1t is good investments 10 c.
tivate the tastes, care not how hu
s~1S. :soS. BILE they may be. The man is untr
Zg+t;Sl; Zg+S; to himself amid the labor of the fal
: hs when following the plow or busy
plea any other work, who does not tea
himself to love what is beautiful, a
does not exercise and strengthen
mind by observing all these is abb
H-' him. He lives in the midst of Go
great museum of wonders, and
cannot say that he has no chance
learn; he cannot say he was ne
taught, for all the world about hin
teaching, if he will bul learn, tru
that will make him content with
rug lot, that will strengthen his mi
'Oal- purify his taste, and lift him up
his whole nature"
uy IN There are but points from ont
the most accomplished, eloquent, {
graceful addresses ever delivered
such an occasion. The whole effor
one that shows the man of wide ,
varied study and Of deep thoug