The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-05-29

the buCkCyC otos~ - .s0AAS.>N sA@-S
week with the official presence of
the highest officer in our Order, and
we know that we speak the senti-
ments of upwards of forty thousand
Patrons in Ohio when we bid Bro.
IL. Woodman, our truly Worthy
Master of the National Grange, a
hearty, cordial and fraternal well
come within our borders. He comes
among us not as a stranger, for his
name and deeds are as household
words in the home of true Patrons.
We bid him welcome as the NAN
respected and beloved as we knozv
he is by his neighbors, those who
have seen and known him longest
and best, than which no higher
need of praise can be given.
We bid him welcome as the FAR
MER, practical and successful tiller
of the soil, whence from contact
with the wide acres of his farm he
has derived the broad and generous
view for which he is noted, render
ing him eminently capable of rep
resenting our farmers and our Or
der as a Commissioner at the Paris
Exposition of 1873 or in any posi-
ton in our land to represent its
great underlying industry that gives
employment to more than half the
people and feeds and sustains all the
rest besides.
We bid him welcome as the CITI-
ZEN, truly representative man in
every sense Of the word; having fill
ed high positions of trust and hon.
or in the gift of the people of his
State. having been for seveal years
the presiding officer of the House
in their Legislature, and of whose
life as a representative citizen, men
! of all parties speak only words OF
praise.
We bid him welcome as the PA
TRIoT, whose earnest words of love
! and anxiety for the welfare of his
Nations land have but to be heard
to convince all that his is patrio
tism that is not limited by State OF
section, or dwarfed and tramellee
by partisan ties. Would that ever,
officer and representative in on
State and National bodies was ;
Woodman in spirit and in deed.
We bid him welcome as the PA
IRON. In his own State of Mich
gan he has, by his considerate ant
conservative, yet firm and dignifiet
leadership, placed our Order high il
the affections of its members and tn
respect of those without the gates
and who in his higher and NOR
extended command at the head o
our grand army of peace and goo'
will, whose lines extend from oceal
to ocean and from the waters of tn
Gulf to the cold cline beyond tn
lakes, has already inspired new hope
and is kindliug again the watch
fires of our Order, among the hills
the valleys and the prairies all owe
our land Like the general on tn
field of battle, whose presence see
and felt in the thickest of the fray
nerves to nobler deeds and cheers tn
weak and faltering, so we know h
, mission in the days of bud an
t bloom, flowers and bird song az
companying natures awakening a
ter the sleep of winter, typical OF TT
> grand awakening of Our Order aft
. its season of inactivity-will cau'
/, the heart of the Patron to rejoice, tt
q faint heart to grow strong, and tho
= without our gates to know that Oh
} cauSe &c inst our mission the pener
II good. So we say welcome, we
come, once again to the man, tt
20 farmer, the citizen, the patriot, ar
is THE PATRON, our friend and brot
= er, and may his visit to us result,
- we know it will, in "the good
& our Order, our country, and ma
es kind" Grange Bulletin.