REMARKS OF GOVERNOR KING. 



Governor King said: He was not here to-night to make a 

 speech or studied discourse; that had already been well and ably 

 done by others. He had come, however, because he felt it his 

 duty, as he esteemed it a high privilege to mingle with those who 

 like himself, were cultivators of the soil. He loved the land and 

 all its associations; they were ever true, and full of those healthy 

 and sound influences which shape and form the character of a 

 freeman. He had lived many, many happy years on the same 

 land whose soil he had assisted in cultivating, and where he had 

 planted the trees, whose cool and quiet shade he had long enjoyed. 

 He had lived contentedly, temperately and independently, as a 

 man should live who owns the land he tills and holds it free from 

 all demands. He who thus lives, feels, thinks and acts as if he 

 had a stake in the common weal — and he has, indeed, whose lot is 

 cast in this favored State. Much is due to the public authorities 

 for the aid which they have given, from time to time, to the cause 

 of Agriculture, and its kindred science. Geology; and now, more 

 recently, in the endowment of an Agricultm-al College, connected 

 with an experimental farm, and by allotting to us these spacious 

 rooms which we this evening dedicate to the cause of Agricul- 

 ture. Let us then, as farmers, take care that the work already 

 so well begun receive no check. To us is the appeal now made 

 to sustain and carry forward to a successful result, an institution 

 which is, and is to be, all our own; a College, whose influence, if 

 prudently and wisely exercised, must be of a sound and elevating 

 character to the youth of the country. Who thinks more calmly, 

 for he has time for reflection; who decides more safely, more 

 int('llif:^ently and firmly, when the pu]>lic interest demands the 

 exercise of the best powers of the mind, than the farmer? For 

 them, and by their steady and united aid, should the College be 

 sustained. It^ halls are to receive their sons for instruction; its 



