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the Sonth, ihcy nmst yet be tilled, in a great ' And here the way open-s for me to fail, for the 

 measure, bv hired force, sach as your neighbor- , occasion, into the track of one of my eloquent 

 hood afibrds. Is it not. then, a matter appealing predecessors, though prudence would warn me 

 as ■well to your interea as to your benevolence, ' not to call up in contrast with my o^^-n. the clas- 

 that measures be taken to confer some honorarj- sical and brilliant performances of any one of 

 distinction in the way of encouragement on la- ■ those ■who have gone before me on similar occa- 

 borin? men, who habitually hire out, to establish sions. Yet my sincere anxiety for the honor and 

 for themselves a character for sober and moral prosperity of every one ■who lives by the plow. 

 A a-lfiis i And that married men, in Kke circum- ■ prompts me to quote for your recollection this re- 

 stances, be induced to improve the appearance ' mark of Hon. Senator Die kixsox, of New -York : 

 and comfort of their humble residences, by - And is it not,'' said he, " lamentably true, that 

 planting vines and shrubbery, and otherwise the extreme doctrine of rewards and punish- 

 causing them to present that aspect of neatness, ments, -which has practically obtained, by gene- 

 which every passer-by -svould regard with ad- ral consent, for the last few years, and has been 

 miration, as signs that rarely deceive, of more upheld and justified by all parties who have had 

 than ordinary merit and rectitude on the part of the dispensing of patronage, hasdone much, very 

 the inmates ? aiuch to -ss-ithdraw men firom the sober pursuits 



More than mistaken — even -wicked — is the of industry, and induced them to embark their 

 sugsestion tliat such simple adornments of little all upon a sea of political troubles ? — To 

 hi-? cabin are unsoited to the condition of the la- forego the cultivation of the little farm, where 

 burins man I Rather let the poorest be encour- j peace and plenty are the sure rewards of indus- 

 aged to construct, of tmhewed posts, the rudest ! triousand frugal hahits, to gain a precarious sab- 

 sort of bow-er about his door. Nature will kind- j sistence by hanging upon the skins of party : 

 ly assist him to cover it ■with the honey-suckle ' politicians by trade, and office-seekers from pria- 

 and the jessamme. that ask bat little care ; and, I ciple. If,"' added he. " Government seeks to 

 then, what so sweet as his own ftceet briar, \ entrench itself about w4th office and patronase, 

 ■which, the poet says, ! and relies for its strength on its parasites and 



** Grotvs alonz j place-men. and not upon the afiections of the 



The poor gi.rf s paiway and the poor'man's door?' j ^^^i^ jj ^.^nnot win by its justice, thoagh for 

 Kmdly lend your countenance, even at some ; ^ time it may terrify by its power. " I mean no 

 expense, if need be. to effect this reform : and niore than he did, to make any but a general 

 the wayfaring traveler, as he passes, shall re- ^ application of these remarks. In more than a 

 mark to himself that, withm the sphere of this j quarter of a century that I have been laboring 

 Society's inSaence. even the poorest diow signs ^.ji]^ jjjy pg^ jq j^q cause of the plow, I caa 

 of melkjradon. and partake of the common re- | safely say that never has a word been penned, 

 finement ^Ve^e it not that 1 dislike to appeal ; ^,r by me been permitted to be published, of a 

 to all sinister motives, in a case which so forci- ; partisan character ; bat I have lived long enough 

 bly addresses itself to the better feelings of our j ^o see and to deplore the increasing disposition of 

 nature, I might add that your kindness would youns men to abandon industrial pursuits for a 

 be remunerated in the improved value of your I slavish dependence on the capricious breath of 

 district, for it would then possess superior at- j power ; so that now, addressing myself to tliose 

 tractions for the very sort of people whom all . ^.\^q are them.selves, and who desire their sons 

 would be most ready to welcome. In this work \ .^ ^e. independent practical farmers, I hold it 

 of charity. I undertake to answer for the hearty ; jq be mv sacred duty to exhort you to discour- 

 eo<jperation of every good house\sife and every | a^e all such enervating and miserable Lnciina- 

 fair daaghter on Long Island. Nature formed j jjong. Rather cut otf a small comer of your 

 them for such offices : and he that invokes not ! {-^tja and persuade them to seek an honest livc- 

 their smiles on every good undertaking is la- j lihood. however homely, by the s^veat of their 

 ni>;ntably ignorant or regardless of the best j brow, 

 means of success, | in the best days of the Roman Republic, ere 



For the Ladies, themselves, where is the ; loxurj- had enervated her people — when 

 man-sion or the cottage m Hempstead, or its I uyjje nerves that join'd their limbs were firm and 

 vic'miiy, that does not display more or less of | 

 that refinement which the love of flowers indi- 



cates : and ■which, when once it breaks out, 

 spreads with a natural and wholesome conta- 

 giousness over a ■whole commtmity, prompting 

 all to unite in the Apostrophe — 

 ' .-■ '• ■.~cE»e. herbs, and frails and flo^wers, 



I: As to Hrn whfjse sun exalts, 



">• . pcrfUmc-s you. and whc=e pcnci; 



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sirons. 

 Their life was healthy, and their ase was lon§ ; 



it was by the addition of ttco acreg of land, that 

 a countrj- discharged its obligation to its heroes. 

 The neat, well-dUed little farm of my friend Mr. 

 L.iiKO, would have recompensed the heroism 

 of an Horatius Coclcs, or the virtues of a Cato. 

 Teach your son, then, rather to till his two acres, 

 than give up his life to awTCtched alternation of 



