GO NEW YORK 



&quot;Report of the Select Committee on the Memorial of the New 

 York State Agricultural Society. 



&quot; Mr Sudam, from the select committee to which was refer 

 red the memorial of the New York State Agricultural Society, 

 praying for the establishment of an Agricultural School, 



&quot; Reported : That they have had under their considera 

 tion the subject submitted to them, accompanied by a report 

 made, during the present session, to the New York Agricultu 

 ral Society, and on which their memorial to the Legislature is 

 predicated. 



61 It will be conceded that there is no portion of the com 

 munity more entitled to the fostering care of the Legislature, 

 than the tillers of the soil. The farmers of the State of New 

 York are a class numerous, wealthy, industrious, patriotic, and 

 above all other classes, from principle, devoted to our repub 

 lican institutions, and cherishing with a holy spirit the union 

 of our States. Their political exertions are not called forth 

 by a desire of any great portion of their own body for legisla 

 tive honours, or for those of the minor judicial situations in 

 the State ; but to maintain and preserve inviolate that sacred 

 trust which has descended to them by the revolutionary efforts 

 of their fathers, the full protection of life, liberty, and pro 

 perty. 



&quot; When a storm arises in the horizon, and danger awaits us 

 from abroad, or when crazed ambition at home drives the 

 frenzied passions of men to madness and all its excesses, it is 

 in the farmingjnterest of the country that you find the steady 

 hand which holds the balance of political power, and by its 

 strong arm repels the foe, or by its electoral voice annihilates 

 the unjust hopes of the aspiring ambition of profligate politi 

 cians. 



&quot; It may be said by your committee, (without the imputa 

 tion of a State vanity,) that New York holds a high rank by 

 her munificent endowments of colleges, academies, and com 

 mon schools. We, knowing their extent, need not elaborate 

 on them in this report. Still it is but just to say, that she is 

 already cited in Europe as a signal instance of what may be 



