The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-09-26
Correspondence Of the South Car0linian.
MIR. Greeley at st. Johnsbury, Vermont.
ST. JoHNsBURY, VT, Sept. =

Correspondence Of the South Car0I'"'an.
MIR. Greeley at st. Johnsbury, Vermont.
Sr. JoHNsBURY, VT, Sept. IA.
Mr.. Editor On Thursday, 18th September,
Mr.. Greeley arrived at st. Johnsbury, yer,
mont, according to previous appointment, ana
addressed the citizens of the Green Mountain
State. on the Fair Grounds. This fair was
we'll attended every day, but the anticipation
of hearing the "slouch hat candidate for the
Presidency" brought in the Vermonters almost
by the tens of thousands. Promptly to the
| hour. Mr.. Greeley appeared on the Grounds In
a coach with three of the Directors lall OF
whom we're Grant men) preceded by a splendid
band of music and followed by carriages con-
tanning other officials. His team stopped mid
way between the Grand Stand and the Judges
Stand, on the race track, and ten feet or less
from where stood. AS he arose to read his
speech three rousing cheers went up for Gree
ley :" but Immediately an indecorous cab drlv-
er shouted, with stentorian voice, "Ihree cheers
for Grant," and the air resounded with the
chip, hip, hurrah" of thousands OF those stur-
dy yeomanry.- 49,.
The sea of faces that were turned upon that
venerable old Puritan as he stood erect IN the
carriage, was amazing to behold. AT least nve
acres were closely jammed together, and SO
much confusion was created by the yelling and
shouting of the rabble, as the throng swayed
thither. that we feared it was their design he
should not speak. But presently comparative
silence was obtained, and he proceeded to read
from an almost octave of manuscript, written
in very large hand, or every other line OF every
other page, very creditable agricultural ad-
dress Of about an hour.
He counselled the "Vermont boys" against
leaving their native State unless they could
not make an honest living at home by we'll
directed energy that the comforts OF settled
country were seldom compensated for by the
| fertility of new countries; that many fond
mothers hearthad been broken by following her
beloved children to the wilds of the West, &C.,
&c. This counsel should be needed IN other
States than Vermont.
He then divided his speech into several
heads, and plainly but practically presented
the advantages of his suggestions: de spoke
of steam and told what it had done for the
world: of irrigation, and how it had kept land
as fertile after an hundred years cultivation as
it was at "the day dawn of creation;" of
the necessity OF forests, and how they had prov
en- an almost paradoxical truth to the prairie
farmer-that a part was greater than the whole
when eighty acres on al hundred acre farm
had produced more after twenty acres we're
planted in trees, than the entire hundred acres
did before the trees were planted; of the wind
as mighty power that should be much more
and better utilized than it is, as it certainly
could supply all the physical force necessary to
conduct the most of our farms. That he went
on simply but forcibly, cautioning his hearers,
however, against the policy OF ignoring science
in thus utilizing the forces of nature, for SAID
he, if one attempts to make water flow up hill
he will find in this element most obstinate
resistance.
Mr. Greeley's speech was entirely agricultu-
raj, and was seldom suggestive of politics ex-
cept when he alluded on two occasions to the
enemy passing blow. He spoke something
of a friend visiting Virginia, slave State
where the slaves plowed but three inches deep,
and when six weeks drought was about to
ruin the crop, the slave owners resorted to fast
ing and prayer instead of having properly ap-
piled the plow, the hoe and the spade as pre-
ventive against the effects of dry weather.
Again he said, that some Honorable Mr.
Kelly had told him he had often known a
dozen mounted men and as many hounds to be
for hours after wounded negro to secure his
muscle in the field, when the country through
which they passed teaming with water power
that might be so economical as to make one
intelligent man more powerful on the farm
CQdn d QOZSu ucSIO6a. ouPPooS 49, AS1SJ -,
slavery and its effects will be cud that he will
chaw on till his days are ended.
Mr.. Greeley is no orator, and if what he says
is good it cannot be impressive because it is
drolled out in sort of half singing way, with
out regard to intonation and modulation OF
voice, which is repulsive to most listeners,
The say-nothing policy of his opponent should
be adopted by himself
/ have seen and shaken hands with both
Grant and Greeley, and if am any judge of
human nature, it is surely reflection upon the
greatness of the American people that either
of these men should be laying claims to the
Nations Presidency. General Grants friends
have never claimed that he was intellectually
superior in more than three things-to wit,
judging of good liquor, good segars, and good
horses. If there is one thing of which ia
think MIR. Greeley was not judge, it would be
of good hat. He has full, ruddy, clean
shaved face, with quite roll of white hairs
projecting over his cravat, which makes him
look like some good natured old mother of the
days of Queen Elizabeth with her ruffie around
her neck, spectacles or nose shielding pair OF
very small eyes, and with soft fiat quaker
bonnet on, always worn crosswise from the
manner it was put on when last worn.
Verify we have fallen upon curious times.
Yours, &C., A.