Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-05-26
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The farmers office is precise and im-
portant but you must not try to paint
him i'll rose-color; you cannot make
pretty compliments to fate and grayita
ton, whose minister he is. He rept e.
sents the necessities. It is the beauty
of the great economy of the world that
makes his comeliness. He bends to the
order of the seasons, the weather, the
soils and crops, as the sails of Il ship
bend to the wind. He represents cou
tinuous hard labor. year in, year out,
and small gains. He is u slow person,
timed to nature and not TO city watches
He takes the pace OF seasons, plants and
chemistry. Nature never hurries; atom
by atom, little by little, she achieves
her work. The lesson one learns in
fishing, yachting, hunting or planting,
is the manners of nature. Patience
with the delays of wind and sun, delays
of the seasons, bad weather, excess or;
lack of water-patience with the slow
ness of our feet, with the parsimony OF
our strength, with the largeness of sea
tand land we must traverse, etc.
| The farmer times himseif-to nature,
and acquires that Hvelong patience
which belongs to her.. Slow, narrow
man, his rule is, that the earth shall feed
and clothe him; and he must wait for
his crop to grow. His entertainments,
his liberties and his spending must be
on farmers scale, and not on.>7a mer-
chants. 1t were rs false for farmers to
use wholesale and massy expense, as
| for States to use minute economy. But
if thus pinched on one side, he has COM
pensatory advantages. He is perman-
ent, clings to his land as the rocks do
In the town where live, farms remain
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generations; and most of the first set
| Tiers 1635), should they reappear on the
i farms to-day, would lind their own blood
and names still in possession. And III e
| like fact holds in the surrounding towns.
This hard work will always be doleaby
one kind of man; not by scheming
speculators, nor by soldiers, nor profess
sors, nor readers of Tennyson; but by
men of endurance -deep-chested, long
winded, tough, slow, sure and timely.
| The farmer has great health and the
appetite of health, aud means to his end;
he has broad lands for his home, wood
to burn great fires, plenty of plain food;
his milk, at least, is uIiwatered; and for
sleep, he has cheaper and better and
more of it than citizens. pa VI
He has grave trusts confided to him.
In the great household of Nature, the
farmer stands at the door of the bread
room, and weighs to each his loaf. 1t is
Il for him to say whether men shall marry
or not. EARLY marriages and the num-
ber of births are indissoftibly corrected
with ABUNDANCE of food; or, as Blu Ike
said, MAN breeds at themOuth." Then
: he is the Board of Quarantine. The
farmer is boarded capital of health, as
the farm is the capital of wealth; and it
is from him that the health and power,
moral and intellectual, of the cities
came. The city is always ecruited from
|, the country. The men in the cities who
!; are the centers of energy, the driving
wheels of trade, politics or practical arts,
and the women of beauty and genius,
2 are the children or grandchildren OF far
mers, and are spending the energies
which their fathers hardy, silent life
accumulated in frosty furrows, il pow
ertv, necessity and darkness. -5
He is the continuous benefactOT. He
: / who digs we'll, con tructs a stone fouu,
} tain, plants a grove of trees by the road
side, plants all orchard, builds a durablc
! house, reelaims a swamp, or as much as
puts u stone seat by the wayside, makes
!. the land so far lovely and dssfabie,
makes fortune which he cannot carry
r away with him, but which is useful tC
e his country long afterwards. The mar
e that works at home helps society large
e with somewhat more of certainty thar
. he who devotes himself to charities. II
y it be true that, not by votes of politica
0 tparties, but by the eternal laws Of po
e litical economy, slaves are driven out'o
! slave State as fast as it is surroundeC
e by free States, then the true abo!itionis
s is the farmer, who, needless of laws an,
constitutions, stands all day in the field
. investing his labor in the land, and ma
king product with which no forced la
y Dor eau compete.--[From Emerson
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