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minerals, as if they Avere not entitled to be paid for the use of their knowledge 

 as much as the lawyer for his brief, the doctor for his prescription, and the car- 

 penter for the exercise of his trade. The ofiicers of the Institute have a great 

 and glorious duty before them — the highest, the most noble of all enterprises — 

 tkat of undertaking and being invested with means and authority to augment knoivl' 

 edge and extend the horizon of the sciences, and to prompt, to note, and to pro- 

 claim advancement in all the arts conducive to individual comfort and prosperity 

 and to national glory. Such is their sacred trust. They will stand up to it with 

 an konorable and elevated ambition, and while all pecuniary considerations and 

 all thoughts of accumulation for the sake of enriching the Institute, except in 

 the elements of usefulness, will be put behind them with disdain, they will seize 

 with alacrity every chance of expenduag to the utmost farthing in their power, to 

 elicit and bring forward the latent resources of their country, and to throw light 

 upon every branch of useful industry embraced within the range of their prom- 

 ises. They themselves, while they devote their time with enthusiastic ambition 

 to the great objects of the Institute, should be not well, merely, but liberally paid, 

 which we understand they are not. We believe that Mr. Chambers, the ami- 

 able and assiduous Librarian or Assistant Secretary, who gives all his time to the 

 institution, gets but $500 or $600 a year, whereas such labors and devotion are 

 entitled to not less than double that amount ; and for men in the position of the 

 vigilant and indefatigable Wakeman and the Recording Secretary, with his 

 various and remarkable acquirements, no men acting in their functions, and quali- 

 fied to appreciate and forward the comprehensive and elevated purposes of a 

 great national establishment, ought to receive less than the officers of a pro- 

 fessed moneyed and money-making institution. We know not what tlieir con:>- 

 pensation is ; we only mean to speak in behalf, and to assert the rights of intel' 

 lectual labor honestly and with pure ambition devoted to great public uses. The 

 only security for a Republic is the virtue of its citizens; the only solid founda- 

 tion for virtue is knowledge : argal, then, as the grave-digger says in the play, 

 let knowledge, above all things, be sure of encouragement and suitable reward. 



MR. STEVENS'S ADDRESS AT AUBURN. 



We the more regret not being able to hear Mr. Stevens's Address at Auburn, 

 since we have seen a brief sketch of it in the Cultivator. We felt every assurance 

 that it would be worthy of the orator and the great cause he was called on to 

 advocate ; and truly rejoice to see that he struck the right nail on the head — 

 Education with reference to agricultural pursuits ! It is as remarkable as it is 

 gratifying, to see that this is now the view which all the Annual Addresses are 

 presenting. Schools, too, are springing up, almost without adequate prepara- 

 tion, to meet the pressing call of public sentiment. We hope to jiublish an ac- 

 count of Professor Lee's and others in our next. 



The ball is in motion ! Let its motion be accelerated by every paper, and every 

 patriot in the country, until the Representatives of the agricultural interest in 

 Congress, shall not dare give one dollar specially for any other sort of instruc- 

 tion, or for collecting any other sort of information at the common expense of the 

 people, without distributing dollar for dollar for agricultural educalion. Yes, 



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