The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1869-10-29
ADDRESS
Of J. n. Klippart at the senect
Co., Fair for 1859.

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Agriculture is the primitive avoca-
ton Of ali civilized nations; aud yet
comparatively few nations are sufh-
s:ently devoted to agriculture to sue
ceed in developing it in its highest
degree Of productiveness.
Each of the several races of man
kind appears to have mission to
perform. One race exeels in the arts
of var; another excels in the arts Of
peace. One race excels in mining,
grubbing and digging another ex-
cells in literature. One excels in po-
litical intrigues another excels in
the sports of the chase. One excels
Il music, painting and poetry an
other excels in commercial transac-
tons. One excels in aesthetic
studies another in agricultural af-
FAIRS.
Notwithstanding the fact that all
civilized nations must engage, to a
greater or lesser extent, in the tillage
OF the soil, there are some races that
reuaro TTeTy agTICuIIura1 operation as
actual drudgery, while ethers engage
in IT with cheerfulness and alacrity,
and apparently prefer it to all other
avocations.
We read in the Bible of Jacobs
cattle. and of the focks and herds Of
the uatriarchs but the Hebrew race
appears to have entirely abandoned
agriculture in every sense. In all
nv travels, and In the entire range
Of my acquaintance, do not know
of single Hebrew Tor Jew, as We
term them who is a farmer or stock
man neither do l know of a single
Jewish or Hebrew family who are en-
gagged otherwise than in some coR-
mercial or financial avocation.
We read in the history that after
the wars we're over; Cincinnatus. the
victorious Roman General, returned
to the plow. From this circumstance,
and the writings Of Virgil, We are
taught to believe that the Romans
were well skilled in the art of agri-
culture but at the present day VIC
know nothing Of Roman agriculture,
except, indeed, we admit that the pre-
sent race Of Italians are the descend
ants Of the Romans position which
no well-read historian would assume,
and which no anthropologist would,
for a moment, entertain.
Joseph's brethren journeyed into
Egypt to purchase corn during the
famine in their native land and for
many hundred years after this event,
Egypt was the granary of the world.
But. as the Egyptian race became ex-
tinet, or absorbed by other races, the
agriculture Of Egypt declined until it
has become SO Insignificant that no
statistician takes it into account any
longer. 1t is entirely too insignif-
cant for consideration.
The Saxon race is the father of ag-
rieulture-during at least the past
three thousand years. 1t is race
which prefers either a seafaring or an
agricultural life. We find that the
terms ploW, harrow, drill, wagon,
team, harvest, hay, straw, wheat, |
buckWheat, oats, barn, thresh, fail, |
horse, mare, colt, bull, COW, calf, OK,
steer, heifer-in a word, all the ordi-
nary terms used in agriculture and
agricultural operations, are found in
the Anglo Saxon language.
The Saxon tongue furnishes the
nomenclature, not only for farming,
but for navigation and many of the
mechanical pursuits. The English
language is largely mada sf' from the
Tstsr srd 6s=r1, SO much So that
many OF our eduo~tf0 sIai men insist
upon it, that no one can fully under :
stand the English language, except
by a study of Latin and Greek. If,
then, the Latins and Greeks were ag-
riculturalists, why would not not !
their terms Of agricultural operations {
be found in our language? VS. have {
Latin and French terms in Law, we 7
have Latin and Greek in the medical
and other sciences, but none Of them /
in agriculture 1t IS an admitted fact {
that that race or people which inTents +
as rule, furnishes, at the 6
same time, the corresponding nomen- {
clature or technical terms. c
The Saxon is reasoner; a reason I
er is alEays a doubter; and a doubt 4
er will never act until he is fully con-
Vineed that his action will be right /
and proper The Saxon farmer is C
said to be obstinate. He is simply t
and adopts such ideas or D
opinions in his mental action, and t
such implements or tools in his avo- n
sation, as he feels, from investigation, e
are safe, reliable, and will accomplish Ii
The intended purpose. He insists il
hat no man can be safe physician e!
who has not spent from FIVE to seven [
years in severe study, and has had el
he benefits of clinics, or hospital W
practice. He believes that bows Il
Ihould serve regular apprenticeship b,
# three, five or seven years, accord I
ng to the complexity of the art or Of
killful manipulation requisite, before h
hey should attempt to execute any to
hing in that art without an instruct W
r or oVerseer. Hence, the Saxon th
armer has no faith in book learning. dc
lie feels sure that no one can know M
about farming unless he has of
cen reared on farm. He has no wi
ntdition himself, and does not believe a
hat "any ole can eat knowledg, out en-
{ or with a spoon" tn
The Saxon has no yeneration for 70
le past the present and the future
My are for him. He 6eprives him te,
If of the comforts of life, and tolls fol-
lere necessarily than the galley me
ave, in order that he, or his family. so,
az, in the future, enjoy the proper IN
: accumulated by him. There is, WI
a his part, no complaining OF whin- bu
e because the Saxons, as a race. wi
ere driven out Of their long cherish an
home of Saxony by the Sclavonians so
i'd the Sannafians. There has been int
D threatened insurrection or Fenian ma
Ovement on the part of the Saxon tin
ermans, because the Saxon race in are
urope are absorbed by, and under tht
le rule Of, the Sclavonians. There wa
no lament that the days Of the for
axon kings are ended The Saxon tar
a bold rcasoner, and says the past as
past that his race derives many ito
ivantages from the protection of the tht
'lavonlan majority in Europe, whilst, po
the United States, the Saxons are pu
laping the destiny of the New II