Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1875-09-10

lion your circumstances will allow. Vermont is 1
small State, and while its valley farms hardly
be exceled, there Is not enough OF them for all
your children, and, to put them upon rocky, bar
rem hill farms, 10 to entail upon them life strug-
gle against nature for q substance with very
small chance Of acquiring competency for old
age. II is therefore neither expected nor best that
| your children should all remain here Many OF
them in the future, as they have done in'the past,
| will 60 to the new states Of the West where the
best Of lands can be bought at a very low price
and the country is new and society in transition
and formative state. Educated men and women
| are very much needed there to found religious
and educational institutions and to mould society
and build up great and prosperous states in which
intelligence, honor and integrity will be duly ap-
| precated.
Let US build school houses, supply our children
with books, and raise men, as to be able to say OF
our Vermont as did Ulysses OF his native Ithaca :
"a rugged region tits. but nourishes
Nobly its youths, nor have ever seen
sweeter spot on EARTH
And thus will Vermont not only be GOOD State
to emigrste from, but good state to live in. where
| agriculture will occupy its appropriate place in
popular estimation.
But, if you feel that you have not hundred dol
lars or more to spare TO invest in books and have
no good friend like ex- Mayor Hosford, of Lowell,
to give your church such a sabbath School Library
as hort time since he gave the Baptist Church.
in harlotte the money to purchase, 90 to work
and Get up one yourselves by subscriptions. 1t will
take but few dollars from each one Of you to
start it, and additions be made to 1t from year
to year. By Sabbath School Library, do not
mean one composed wholly of Sunday School novels,
containing imag inary Biographies OF good little
girls and boys or very naughty ones who came to
some bad end, but such ones as the Baptist Church
of Charlotte had the good sense to purchase with
the money given them by Mr.. Hos.ord-one con-
tanning tine standard works Of the best British and
American authors, including the best historical
works,and works upon agriculture and its kindred
sciences.
BY reading these books your children will better
a'ceciate the beautiful in art and nature an this
W also have tendency to make them satisfied
the farm.
As ons of the most distinguished orators and
scholars this country has ever produced has we'll
said AS work OF art | know few things more
pleasing TO the eve or more capable Of afording
scope and qualification TO taste for the beautiful
than a well situated and cultivated farm The man
oil refinement will hang with never wearied gaze
on a landscape by Claude and Salvador; the price
ola section Of the most fertile land in the West
would not purchase few square feet of the canvas
on which these great artists have depicted a rural
scnee. But nature has forms and proportions be-
yond the painters skill; her divine pencil touches
the Landscape with living Ii ,hts and shadows
never mingled on the painters palette. What is
there on earth which eau more entirely charm the
eye. or crafty the taste, than a NOBLE farml'
You farmers are by far the most numerous class.
and. in this country where majorites rule. with
Intelligent and integrity to guide you. you can
control the affairs o! the state and the nstiOn and
by legislation and otherwise, elevate and improve
your profession.
To noa OF intelligence, culture, honor and integ-
riy, know no surer road to the hi chest political
honors than by way of the farm. Did time permit
| could cite you TO numerous Instances, where
men have been elevated from the farm 10 places OF
the highest trust and honor; to Cincnnaius who
went iiom he plough to the dictatorship Of Rome,
when the imperial city was threatened with de
struction, and, as the story goes in sixteen days,
alter having conquered her enemies, surrendered
the dlctat0rsh p and returned again 10 his little
farm to our own beloved Washington, who was
taken from his Virginia farm and made command
er-in-chiei 0: our Revolutionary forces and went
from there the presidency the hi chest place in
the gift of the American people, and bac1 again TO
the farm; and to Putnam, and others but must
hasten To close.
Make your homes pleasant and attractive; SUP
ply them with the means of mental culture; give
your children the best education you and one
that Is adapted 10 YOUR proiesso and DO allow
the inma'es OF your homes to he prematurel. worn
cut with drudgery and toll Honor your calling and
give to II. In your own estimation least. APP
prcpriate place. Show that it is compatible with
the highest and broadest culture, your sons will
not be lured into other pursuits but will duly ap-
preclate your profession and become intelligen
and prosperous farmers aud useful citizens.
To use the language OF another upon a similar
occasion. The man who makes agriculture not
merely productive but honorable VINO surrounds
his farm with the images Of the most attractive
happiness who dwells in IL neat abode such as
simplicity oushtto desire who. in addition TO the
song o. the rUobln, can make the music Of con-
tentment How around his calm abode eau unite i
with the intelligence OF citizen who knows bis
rights and IS determined 70 defend them who
shows that this business IS favorable to mental
culture, and fair road as any to political MI
nence, such man does more TO encourage the |
profession than all other causes combined. He
touches the springs OF action in their centre and
blesses his country and mankind He plants he
laurel beside the plough, and alIU.es thousands 10
come. and, after having toiled within its fragrance
10 SIT beneath Is shade