The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1872-06-20
Tile Modern Cireipnatne

MS pretensiOBs in that direction W,
cannot say Mr. Greeley has sue
! eeded in convincing us thus fa1
that what he knows abou
farming amounts to much Their,
is no doubt about his considering
himself deeply versud in the myste
| ~. Otherwise, he would never
have attempted to enlighten tho
world by his book, for whatever
Horace Greeley does he does sin.
| ceTeiy. He has often been in error
but he was honestly mistaken. In
the nature of things Air. Greelev's
knowledge Of farming could hardly
be such as t. enable him to write a
! book that we should be justified in
recommending our agiicu lturaI
friends TO adopt as authority. He
was born on farm it Is true, a New
Hampshire farm, bat he started out
IN life on his own hook, and en-
na' ked in til business OF tybe-set-
ting ut 50 tender an age tnat we can
Lot suppose he knew much about
the paternal occupation. Since
then his life has been busy one,
but it has been spent almost exrlu-
Sively in towns and cities. 1t was
utter he became = great Journalist
that the remembrance Of the old
lays came upon him, and he pur-
chased the famous ChaPpaqua farm,
forty miles, We believe, from New
York, and each evening steamed
out there, When his days work was
done, to drink from his limpid
spring and indulge his theoretical
tastes in crop making. But farm
ing after this fashion could not be
much Of n success, consequently we
are not surprised at being told that
every head of cabbage raised at
Chappsqua has cost on an average
tust about four times as much as
the same or L better article could be
had for in Fulton market. His
pumpkins were a delight to his eyes,
and his squashes a thing of JOY to
him; but every golden pumpkin, if
it did not exactly cost its weight in
the precious metal, wasn't least very
expensive, and the squashcs-well,
the less Said about them the better
This remarkable old gentleman,
simple yet shrewd, with a great brain
full Of the ardent fsncies, found the
Qualifications OF his taste al Chap
paqua, and, tn ough the qualification
was expensive, he has made money
enough to afford it. The Tribune
enabled him to indulge himself, and
it wa nobody S business how much
the annual expenditures OF the farm
were in excess of the profits. II
farming had really been the Occu'
patton that was to give him meat
and bread, he would very soon have
discovered that he dit not know
much about it, and certainly would
not have essayed TO enlighten the
world ol the subject. As it was, ne
fell into the delusiOn of suPpO>Ung
himsaIf proficient, and bcReyoientIy
went To work and wrote T. book in
order to give mankind the benefit
OF what he knew.
Now for the first time the quaint
old philosopher really has time to
learn what farming is. He has
gone to CHappaQua in earnest. He
is there, not as relief from the
tolls and cares Of the sanctum du
ring 4 few hours out Of the twenty
four, but he is there all the time.
There is nothing to disturb hIm in
the pastime OF putting in string
beans and onions and attending To
his summer crop, unless 1t be, in
deed, the obtruding thought that be
is a candidate for President Of
the United states. The Romans
took Cincinnatus from the plow to
invest him with supreme authority
if Greeley is elected TO the Presi
dencY, as there now seems a fair
chance that he will be, the mandate
of :he people will find tim digging
potatoes, garEering his cereals, or
housing his rutabagas and pump
kins.
1t would be a pleasant thing to
spend day, or part of one, at Caap-
paqua. 1t would be entertaining To
5ehold the ancient philosopher of
the Tribune delving with wOolen
gIoved hands in his asparagus bed, |
or plucking up weeds and corn in
discriminately, for we have suspi |
cion that he doesn't at all know the 7
difference between them. To watch I
him herding the lambs, and driving /
in the colts, calves and the pigs. 1t 4.
would be capital. And then to see !
him, exhausted with his eXertions- !
stake his honest thirst at the old /
Dakcn bucket would be worth the /
memory af all the mintjuleps and /
,ltawba-cobblers that ever the inge-
luity of bar-keeper cnncocted.
Whar a tahieau Greeley would make
Ia his barn.vard surrounded 10y /
his red headed roosters with their
numerous rIatronly followers. We
the subject as one wor-
hy the best artistic genius of the
,ictorial weeklies. Such rare op
lortunity of portraying the old
White coated and white hated phi
has never occurred before,
We do not deny that there Is
rood deal of the Comical in the idea
# Horace Greeley at Chappaqua.
But that very idea will be OF no dis
.dvantsge to him in his political
spirat ons, OF rather in the politi
al aspirations his friends have for
i'm. The kindly and genial char
ctcr of the man prcdOminotes in
he picture,
We advise Mr.. Greeley 10 make
he most of his present oFportuni /
V, for it will probably be some
ears before he will see Chappaqua,
fter the 4th o" next March,
The people have q notion that,
hough as a farmer he is not a sue
ess, as a President he might hc
l. least they have a strong inclina-
ion 10 give him the trial. As be
wecn Gen. Grant and the Chappa
ua farmer. the people viii hardly
e at a loss in selecting.-Co CoaTisr
lOarnaL
The st. Louis girls we're so badly /
-ightened by the experience OF ono
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