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Summer and Winter, shall not fail. With such a sublime 

 faith as this in the God of the universe, the husbandman goes 

 forth to his labor again, in the returning spring-time. He 

 sows in faith, he cultivates in faith, and gathers in the precious 

 fruits of his toil with rejoicing. Then let every man be true. 



•' To thine own self be true, 



And it must follow, 



As the night the day, 



Thou canst not then be false to any man." 



And now, Mr. President, if the question should be asked 

 you i does farming pay ? or is farming as profitable as other 

 business ? then give the same answers you would with refer- 

 ence to any other business or prefession, (for it is just as 

 pertinent to any other business as to this,) and if the question 

 comes to you, answer it by saying yes, when the right man is 

 found in the right place. Farming is a failure only when the 

 wrong man is in the right man's place ; and it is more truly 

 the case with reference to farming than it is to any other 

 branch of business. If tlie business man, as he is called, 

 fails, from losses by fire or flood, his losses are usually made 

 up by insurance companies ; or if his losses come from other 

 causes, then he repudiates his obligations by taking advantage 

 of the bankrupt laws. But the honest soil we till has never 

 yet issued an insurance policy for special cases ; and as special 

 legislation is as yet unknown in the legislative halls of the 

 material universe, bankrupt laws are as yet unknown. If the 

 lawyer loses his rich client, by his failure to defeat the ends 

 of justice, and clear his client from the penalties of the law, 

 he need not despair, for the "fools are not all dead," and the 

 very next day he may find a client who is willing to spend a 

 fortune to gain a dollar. But if the harvest time comes and 



