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say, but the very fact of their saying what they do, at the times 

 they take to say it, suggests a doubt of their sincerity. If they 

 are not sincere, and if it is true that we do not exert that influ- 

 ence in the world that belongs to our numbers, and to our calling, 

 it certainly is because, we as a class have not brought to our busi- 

 ness that liberal education that has very justly been held as ne- 

 cessary to other profes:iions. 



"When a farmer has liberally educated a son, he has too often 

 gone from us, to seek in more exciting scenes for that success in 

 life, that perhaps he thought came too slowly to the farmer, and 

 most farmers themselves estimate at much more than tlieir real 

 value the rewards that occasionally attend upon other occupa- 

 tions, and we are apt to forget the value of the enjoyments that 

 , attend upon our homes away from the bustle of city life. 



Let us carefully estimate all our advantages and bring up our 

 sons to honor our calling, and having given them that education 

 necessary to its successful pursuit, let us hope to make good far- 

 mers of them. 



The only aristocracy there is, or can be in this country, is an 

 aristocracy of knowledge. Knowledge is power, and he who owns 

 knowledge, will exercise power. 



Every revolution in the old world passing through blood, ends 

 where it began, the only change being to rivet more strongly the 

 chains that bind the masses in servitude to tlie few. Every i ail- 

 road and every telegraph is an engine, of oppression there, fur- 

 nisliing tlie means of instantaneous knowledge to the government 

 of every popular movement, and the means of concentrating ar- 

 mies to arrest them before they become formidable. Here rail- 

 roads and telegraphs, are the promoters of the interests cf the 

 million, for they are owned and managed by the people. In this 

 new world man is to be regenerated politically, })y the spret^ of 

 knowledge, and thereby the ditTusion (>f power. We farmers 

 constitute by far the greatest part of the people, and we must 

 become learned and wise, fur in our liands are the destinies of 

 the country. 



