6 AGRICULTURAL IVIUSEUM 



by his callinp', unless he shuts his eyes as^a'nst the light of 

 <1av ^f> i«^i'l ^11"^ express his grulitude lor ail the hontuMrss 

 mercies of heaven. lie hves by fair gain, and maivfs no 

 |)rey of others, by outwittini^ the unguarded ; hut re- 

 joices to see his ncigiihours prosper. His comfort is in- 

 creased with theirs, and in the midst of his rural and do- 

 mestic cnjoj'ments, his jdcasing and lasting resources for 

 liappiness, are the rewards of his own industry, and the 

 gracious liberality of his beneficent Creator. 



By a successful cultivation of agriculture, innumerable 

 are the advantages that are derived to human society, 

 ISay, all ranks and species of created beings are affected 

 or supported by it. Alanufaetures are grafted on it, as 

 that replenishing stock, wliich supplies nourishment to 

 all their dilTerent and extensive branches. It is the life of 

 industry, and it is the soul of cconomj' ; it is that art which 

 alone lays the foundation for a plentiful supply to the va- 

 rious necessities of the poor, b}' aftording them constant 

 employment, and exciting their industry, from which musfe 

 result a consequent security to government. Few states? 

 •whose poor people are constantly employed, well fed, 

 clothed, paid, and pioperly encouraged by kind treatment 

 arc ever alBicted with discontents, insurrections or rebel- 

 lions. But on the other hand, when they are depressed 

 for want of em|tloyment, they become idle, lazy, indolent^ 

 and necessitous — and it is from the starved part of every 

 community, that we may ever look for danger; their idle- 

 ness gives time to invent, and their necessities push them 

 forward, with a couruge sharpened by despair, to perpe- 

 trate acts of the most daring crindnalily. 



In short, in whatever country agriculture, manufactures, 

 industry, and economy prosper, there riches, peace, mo_ 

 rality, and happiness must prevail — They are those noble 

 raajcstic pillars on which must be supported every moral 

 and political structure — they are the vitals of commerce, 

 the genuine parents of wealth, the social friends of vir- 

 tue, and the enemies only of vice and immoralily. 



