The Van Buren press., 1875-12-07
Gov. Garland's Address.

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! had heard scarcely such = rush IN Ii
tie Rock since Gen. Steele came there i
1862, and all over the sudden appearance
OF two bales of cotton and pentnr
the assertion the same thing would hay
occurred in any to IN in The United State:
Now | would not destroy this charm, bu
would rather modify ii, and graduate
do not let 1t he SO absorbing and pow
crful.
had a talk not long since with one @
our large Red River planters on this sub
ject, and he said, yes, he believed | wa
right, but, then, governor, cotton look
so pretty growing, and brings money 81
quick 1t is Al awful temptation to grow
it, to the exclusion of other things, anJ
he wondered il he could not do that au,
let all the others do as thought
SO there is the trouble--to begin---tt
start the new order Of planting Well
it has begun, and, il after years of suffer
ing, vexation, and disappointment, w
have reached this point, we have cause te
he glad and TO rejoice with exceeding
great JOY.
can we 20 backward-we must press for.
ward and onward. 1t i.a day Of advance
incnt and mproyement--change is writ.
ten upon everythng-and old things and
old ideas are passing away, and giving
place to new ones iu nothing IS this
more plainly seen and felt than i'll agri
cultural and mechanical pursuits In
times gone by, what in agriculture and
the mechanic art required days to per-
form, noT often needs only hours or
minutes. BY tile division OF labor, and
through scientific discoveries in these
branches of industry. man is not now u
dray horse, but his labor is comparative
ly easy and pleasurable, and he has time
to improve and develop his faculties in
other pursuits and branches Of business
la the earliest stages of society, there
were many arts, but no sciences, For a
long time agriculture was an art kept up
and taught alone by experience by ira
dition; but this art, during this century,
has been subjected very greatly to the ju
risdiction of chemistry and is now be.
ing explained and improved by laws Of
physical science. Schools are being car
ried on for the purpose of imparting ed.
ucation in agriculture In our State, al
Fayetteville, we have young and prom
ising college erected for and dedicated 10
this purpose, and young men are being
thoroughly educated there, and will go
out year By year, to society, trained and
tutorcd in these most important matters
Who knows how long, through the ten
chinys Of fice, before agriculture may
be brought, in some part, under the do
miniou Of meterology? Yea, who can
say that this is notnow tha casel lft
be true, the changes Of The weather can
be predicted with any certainty, then the
fact is accomplished,
mead not, at this day and time, stop
to tell you Of the great advantages deri
vable from rotation Of crops--irom the
seieutidc preparation and cultivation of
the soil-irom the use of fertilizers-all
this is better known TO you thar. to my
self; but let me call your attention to this
fact; over thirty years ago it was stated
the price of animal manure annually ap
piled to crops in England, on good as
we'll as inferior lands, exceeded in value
the whole amount Of her foreign com
mcrcc. And it is known how we'll Eng
gland eXcels in agriculture. In 1910, Mr..
Webster, after he returned from that
country, where he had been studying
these various subjects, before an assem-
bly, at Boston, gave it as his opinion:
No country spent more time and
money in the advancement Of agriculture
than England, and rs a science, no coun.
try understood it more thoroughly, and,
as an art, no country practced it better"
With all his progress in his calling,
Cato, the Roman farmer referred 10 al
ready, would not now be at home with us
How long will it be, can any one tell, be-
fore the spleadid soil Of this lovely val,
ley is plowcd by the agency Of steam?
These discoveries and inventions, this
noble progress, nurtured aad cncourag
ed BY free government, where all have
the same and equal rights under the law,
must be added to increased ratio as time
moves on The human mind is restless,
s!cepless aud resistless--" even tyranny
cannot thwart and rcpress its aspirations.
do not believe with those who assert
the humanl mind is overweighted, and
cannot meet the demands upon tito bring
under control of knowledge the varied
matter of the external world. But | be,
lieve with those who hold that labor an.
hindcred and untrameled by law is self
supporting; that the powers Of industry
are commensurate. with Its wants, and
that, when the human mind once steadily
combines and concentrates its powers, il
will be more than a match for all the dif-
Nhculties of the external world and it can
subject them all to control and to the ad
yancement of our race.
We very often hearit said, we surpass
our fathers, and those who come after us
will surpass us. This illustrates the rule
that nothing is stationary. Under the
operation Of this rule we see business
transferred from one seat to another with
no more apparent cause than when we
see wells of water go dry. As water
courses change their channels, so com,
merce directs itself into many and vary.
ing currents. "its axis shifts its place and
leaves tropical bones and tropical fruits
high on northern hills" See how the
railroad destroys one town, to-day, and
tomorrow builds up dozen in its stead
Great efforts are now being made by the
co-operators of England, 500 600 strong,
with their headquarters at Manchester, TO