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trict societies and the State central organization, and labor to keep up 

 their usefulness and efficiency. Take pride in the eminence and success 

 of the representatives of your calling. A great artist paints a landscape 

 of a few feet square, and raises the character of a whole community by 

 his genius. Haraszthy turns a township into a beautiful landscape, and 

 the honor and fame of it travel beyond the Alps, and further than the 

 eastern bounds of the Mediterranean. And what shall I say of him 

 whose murder was a stab at the interests of California, from Mount 

 Shasta to San Diego, the full-brained, nimble-thoughted, large-hearted 

 Osborne, the farmer-philosopher and poet ? A man like him is worth 

 more to California than an Ophir mine, for it is especially true in agri- 

 culture that " the price of wisdom is above rubies." We pronounce his 

 eulogy, and that of the science he had so nearly mastered, in saying that 

 there is hardly another man in California whom we could not have more 

 readily spared. And strive to learn the lesson which he was never weary 

 in enforcing — that the industry of the State must be broadened and diver- 

 sified for the sake of farmers and the future. The State has offered noble 

 premiums for hemp, flax, tobacco, sorghum sugar, tea, raw silk, paper, 

 rosin, wine bottles, rice, and cotton. When shall we see them earned? 

 No hundred thousand dollars can be so wisely spent as those which shall 

 show that all the premiums for agricultural and manufactured products, 

 offered by the last Legislature, are won. Those dollars will not be spent, 

 but planted, to spring up a hundred fold. Heaven hasten the day when 

 the warrant shall be drawn on the Treasury for every cent of that noble 

 bounty ! Hemp we shall soon need soon, I hope — American hemp — for 

 American consumption in high places. The queenly flax we need to de- 

 throne King Cotton, and give us a clean-linen civilization. Silk from our 

 own looms we pray for, to make us more independent of foreign mills. 

 Native sugar we want to sweeten the cup of our immense national pros- 

 perity that is near at hand. Good wine of our own vintage shall be 

 poured into the goblets that will pledge the restored old flag in all the 

 infected districts of rebellion. Cotton from free labor we long to see 

 floating into the markets of Europe, as the sign and guarantee of an 

 America homogeneous in its polity henceforth and forever. And then 

 we shall be ready to select some good California tobacco, and offer, under 

 the Stars and Stripes, to smoke the pipe of peace with all the world. 



