The Portland daily press., 1869-09-11

Saturday Morning, September Il, 1869.
- State Election. Monday, Sept. IS. -a.p
RepubIican Nominations
f. hrsiol FOR GOVERNOR
JOSHUA L. CHAMBERLAIN
T. Hp.i.s d, OF BRUNSWICK. d n.l.
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Address of Hon. George B. Lor-
Ing, before the New England
" Agricultural Society.
4 Gentlemen: undertake with difidence
and distrust the task which you have i'm
| posed upon me. That appropriate custom
-four Society, fixed by the constitution, by
which the Chief Executive Magistrate of the
Commonwealth, in which our annual session
may be held, shall be called upon to express
bis views OF our special calling by public ad-
dress, has done SO much to rouse and elevate
the agriculture of New England, that its
| omission naturally fills us with profound
regret. And while the discussion of agri-
| cultural topics may be easy to Jus. who are
1 familiar with them, feel that assume alarge
Responsibility. when, unaided by high civil
| distinction, endeaVor to perform service
| which belongs to one whom the people have
| clothed with the highest honor State can
bestov. iH y h aH'd-sN r h.p @'sta faa
i speak therefore as one of your own num-
ber-as farmer Interested in the develops
| ment OF American agriculture--belieying in
| the Importance of American husbandry-
confident in the, power Of iAmefican thought
| to discover the systems best adapted to free
people, and in the power of American labor
| to work out, in all its various callings, every
social and civil problem, which can belong to
our material growth, and can effect our NOR
al and intellectual advancement. That you,
who are angaged in filling the soil of New
| England, have diligently performed your part
| of this industrial service, the exhibition which
| is just closing, bears witness. The prosperi-
| ty of these States has suffered no detriment
at your hands .at least. Equal to the task
] imposed upon them by severe skies and
rugged soil, superior TO the ,burthens which
their patriotic necessities have laid upon their
| shoulders, diiigent themselves in their calling
and relying with confidence upon the mar
! kets OF a prosperous community, for, the
| means by which their labor shall receive an
| ample reward, the farmers of New England
| have kept steadily on thei. way. Beneath
the touch of their hands the earth has vie Id
ed her stores with increasing liberality. Sub
mlssiye to their fostering skill, their focks
| and herds have risen to higher standards Of
excellence and profit. OSedient to an, untir-
| ing spirit of investigation, they have invoked
| the aid of science and good learning in their
cause by assembly and school and society
and college, and, remembering the mutual
relations which exist between all the arts,
they have here recognized and encouraged
every form of industry which can adorn and
l. Qm mbpl1jSh pvlizpd lifa TT a,,1t;
and the herdsman, and the artist, and the
mechanic, and the manufacturer, this assem-
bly, iOf farmers has opened the door for COM
petition, believing as they do, that around
agriculture as grand central figure stand
all the efforts which skill and taste can make
| for the Improvement of mankind. RI q !
| No competitor on these grounds, or in
these halls, will expect me to discourse upon
his own peculiar interest, am sure. The
lessons which you have all learned here by
| observation are far more valuable than any.
thing can say. Would you study cattle?
Yonder pens filled with all the most valuable
breeds, are your best text book. Would you
know the mechanism which can be proftably
applied to agriculture? The fruits of Ameri-
can ingenuity in every form lie before you.
Would you discuss the modes by which the
earth can be induced to "pour forth all her
secret store?" Ask the cultivators of that
luxuriant vegetable growth, which must have
been your daily admiration in yonder hail.
Would you admire the skill with which all
textile tibres arc wrought in articles of use
and. .beauty2 Witness the handiwork of your
sons and daughters and see how the far
mer's fireside and the imposing mill Join
hands in one graceful toll And then turn
with me and learn how every powerful and
prosperous people protect their own indus
tries, in every variety, and develope their
| own resources, as the foundation of their
wealth and strength and cultivation.
1t is by the growth of agriculture and man
ufactures that nation prospers. They are
the strong arms of people in war and in
peace. JTaraTyzo 0tufrry-, .i---v.s-v.-@~--
| comes comparatively powerless. Our fathers
knew this when, at the close of the revolu-
tionary war, they found themselves, a slender
people, streaching along the Atlantic sea-
board, weighed down by a heavy war debt,
and dependent upon primitive agriculture
and feeble commerce for their national re-
| sources. Manufactures were small; few
cotton mills in Rhode Island, and the spin
| ming and weaving of course cloths of cotton,
| wool, and flax in private families, constitut-
| ing about all there was of this branch of
| business until the beginning of this century.
| The fatal blow struck at our commerce by
| the bellgerent powers of Europe at that
| time, arrested the attention of all leading
| SGdlSSliltll, WHO WllUcsScu Will OIt
more instance in history of the weakness of
commerce as an inspirer of national life and
strength. Said Mr.. Jefierson-"The situa-
| tion into which we have thus been forced has
| impelled us to apply a portion of our indus
| tury and capital to internal manufactures
| and improvements" Said Mr.. Madison in
| 1910 0-"To thriving agriculture and the inn
provements relating to it, is added highly
interesting extension of useful manufactures,
the combined product of professional occu
pations and of household industry. Such in
| deed is the experience of economy, as well
| as of policy, in these substitutes fer supplies
heretofore obtained by foreign commerce,
that in national view, the change is justly
| regarded as, of itself, more than recon-
pense for these privations and losses result
| ing from foreign injustice, which furnished
| the general impulse required for its accom-
plihsment." Said Mr.. Dallassin 1S1e-"1t
was emphatically during the period of the
restriction system and the war that the i'm
portance of domestic manufactures became
conspicuous TO the nation, and made a last
ing impression on the mind of every states
man and every patriot" And not to the
great minds of our own country alone, does
this truth appear manifest. Napoleon, in
his remarkable conversations at st. Helena,
sa:d as he alluded to his governmental policy
for France =" Foreign trade, which in its re-
suits, is infinitely inferior to agriculture, was
an object of subordinate importance in my
mind Foreign trade is made for agriculture
and home industry, and not the two latter
for the former" The Emperor of Russia in
1922, declared that the encouragement of the
manufactures of his Empire was Imperative
ly demanded by the agricultural interest, but
also by commerce; and he adopted policy
to that effect, following that of England,
| Austria, France and Prussia. ta -...-.t.--4.
Under the influence of this estimate of the
importance of these two great branches of
industry, and under the effects of e fostering
policy for both, how has our country ad-
vanced in wealth and population, and found
itself equal to every emergency! A colonial
dependency less than century ago, it has
risen to the rank of an independent nation !;
has increased in population from five and a
half millions to forty millions; has fought
successfully three foreign wars and one civil
war has raised the value of the real estate
of the Union from fifty millions to nearly
ten thousand millions of dollars; is produc-
ing one hundred and fifteen millions of
pounds of wool, one thousand three hundred
and thirty-two million of grain; being of corn
76S, ,320O 600 bushels; of wheat, 2l7,870,00O
bushels; of rye, % 100000 bushels; of oats
275,O9S,000 bushels; of barley, 25,727, ,00C
bushels; of buckwheat, 81 100000 bushels
besides 67,7S3 900 bushels of potatoes-323, 81
724,OOO- pounds Of tobacco-and 100000
bales of cotton. The increase in the value
of agricultural lands since 1860 has been, in
the New England States from II to 20 pei
| oanf ap5 in tho rnoSt nroSnarOuc wpStpr1