The daily gazette. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1874-1883, 1874-10-12

| thy people.
u Diversity in our Industries; diversity
, IN our productions, leads directly
10 increased use for all we can pro
ducc, ana gives us nucleus at home
lor advancement upon sure ba-
SIS, ana one within our CONTROL and we
witness with joy and pride the mcchani
cal skill which has made our harbors on
the Chistiana the grandcst ship-building
centre in the Union-and see the anci,
ent town of New Castle awakeninr
from her slumbcrs to listin to the roar
of new foundries, the din of machine
shops and the clattcr of factories.
The real foundation of this growing
prosperity is the government of good
laws, which was bequethed to us by Il
worthy ancestry of good plain stock
frugal, hardy, industrious and brave.
| In the past history of this State, we
have Just cause for an honest pride
VI all that Is worthy in the State, we
should be proud, and that same pride
should teach us to amend our defects.
| AS that man is not to be trusted who
docs not respect himself and who does
not feel his good character as sometime
to he valued and jealously to be pro.
tected, so, in like degree, should we re.
gard our little commonwealth; reioic-
| ing over all that is honorable and use.
ful i'll her government and determining
reform when reform is demanded bv
justice and right
l admit that where our little State is
concerned am prone
ITO be to her virtues very kind.
| To her faults little blind !"
| and this perhaps is in resistance to that
| class OF men, not 50 much those to the
| manncr-bOrn as others who have lately
settled among u5 and have adopted IA
habit OF beiittling this State and her
| cltlZens with unjust snecrs ut her insti-
tutionsi the smullness OF her area; the
pauclty OF her population, and her re
lative 1eebleness in the proportion oi
numbersto thelarge rcommuntcswhich
lie on our borders.
such people commit very common
and, may say, American error in mis-
taking bigness for greatness Goliah
would be with them, greater man
than David, and the battle Of Thcrmopy-
lac, an insignificant skirmish because
OF the small number of men engaged on
the Grccian side. Such people would
never hcve comprehendcd the soul-lift
ing speech of Henry the 9th of England
to his troops on the morning of the bat
tie of Agincourt. The enemy Were
five To one, and " Westmoreland expires
ed the wish that there We're present,
But ole ten thousand of these men
in England, that do no work to day.
But the gallcnt Harry would not only
have refused to enlarge this brave lit
tie band, but would have sent out OF
their company the man who thought
them too few to be great and useful -
i.5 . 4 I,
lculturc in his address, and must let
Iyou read it youi 1elvcs when you g
home in the 4th act of Henry \.
Our duty is simply to be truc to ou,
selvcs-to keep abreast with the cur
rent of improvement in modern science
and discovery, still holding fast to the
principles of our forcfathe"s. BY pur-
suing the same rules of economy and
simplicity in our State and County
governments We shall induce renewed
tides of immigration, both of capital
ard labor, into our borders making
our State hive of industry where pro
jperty and person are secure, because
our laws are respected and obeyed, and
an upright public sentiment shall mould
the laws.
| cannot withhold expression OF era
tification at the thorough and complete
classification of premiums which your
catalogue contains. 1t is marked with
such knowledge Of all that pertains to
the work of your Association that | am
made to feel even more painfully my
own untitness To do it justice.
No branch of industry or production
which attaches tQ farming, floral, fruit
or tree culture, or the important needs
of housekeeping. seems to have esclp-
ed the minds of your committee. There
is Il chance for competition to every
one, young or old, rich or poor, black
or white, who i willing to make the
> venture
l From this elaborate schedule let me
, select, As the subject of special value
and interest,
CATTLE AND HORSES,
e to each of which classes the prominence
t. they merit has been assigned by yonr
!. committee.
Let me ask To what do VIC owe the
8 magnificent herds of neat cattle, So nu
y merous in great Britain, and which lin
5 ding their way of late years across the
Ir Atlantic have hcCn 81 much further i'm
Il proved by intelligent care ot ourA Ameri-
II can breeders, that it is now no infrc-
II quent occurrence To find English pur-
e Chasers at our auction salcs, out bid
ing the Americans and carrying back
e to England our short horns to improve
I'll the stock abroad
if 1t is all due to the enlightened land on
ID nes aud farmers OF Great Britain whc
v finding there the local aud interior class =,
of of cattle, have, by wise selections aud grea
a. !eare In breeding, administering proper iood
aud bestowing proper treatment, b btneii
ted themselves, their own county aud tn,
o' whole civilized world.
le- Take for instance the case of Mr.. Thoma
es Bates, The great Enhi'h breed II OF sh >rl
its horns, who died in lSi9.-He bought hi
n hlst Duchess Of Chales. Collin IN is 4
les and bred her relation, closely until 1881
ms lie then purchased th4 b Ill "3eividere,
aa having a cross OF the same b'ood and bre,
- with him until 1919. His herd was sold il
:: 1850 To Lord Ducie, who died three year
~ Afterwards, and stock was again sold II
l't 1851. At this last sale portion ot the her
he OF the "Duchess" and Oxford strains wer
to purchased by Mr. Thorne of Duches
IL 9 New York Mr. awis q Nj arm