el of the soldier state; and in this valley, the brave, the uuselflsh, patriotic 

 Sedgwick sleeps in his grand repose. 



Not among the homeless crowds of city life, not among a floating mana- 

 facturing population, but among those who dwell on their paternal acres and 

 treasure in their grave-yards the ashes of their dead who once sate under the 

 same roof and by the same hearthstone that their descendants enjoy, would 

 philosophy, as derived from historic examples, expect to find the most deter- 

 mined resistance to oppression or any invasion of time- honored rights. Of such 

 associations how humanly the English elegiac poet has sung : 



"Beneath those rnj^'ged elms, that yew tree's shade, 



Where heaves tbe turf in many a mouldering heap, 

 Each in his narrow cell forever laid. 



The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. 

 Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield; 



Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke; 

 How jocund did ttiey drive their team a-field. 



How bowed the woods before their sturdy stroke. 

 Some village Hampden, that, with dauntless breast 



The little tyrant of his fields withstood; 

 Some mute, inglorious Milton, —here may rest 



Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood." 



In coming from the comparatively barren seashore of Essex county to ad- 

 dress the skillful agriculturists of a pre eminently fertile valley of the inland, I 

 have felt no small embarrassment, lest I should seem to misapprehend your own ' 

 superiority of practical knowledge. I would not fall willingly into a mistake 

 like that of a young female graduate, who, delivering a valedictory address be- 

 fore venerable Divines and theological professors, entreated them to abandon 

 their vices and come instantly to Jesus, 



It would not materially interest you to hear of the special results derived 

 from the kelp and sea weed of the wild Atlantic freshly ploughed in, or of the 

 effects of mussel bed upon the onion crop, or of salt hay upon cows. And I 

 seriously doubt if this agricultural society would give my farm a prize for any- 

 thing but grasshoppers and woodwack which last has been said to owe its in- 

 troduction to that fair Puritan setiler. Lady Arabella Johnson ; in memory of 

 whom, if she did bring it in as a rare plant, which is not probable, as the early 

 descriptions of Salem mention it, the farmers of Essex county would gladly es- 

 tablish a "decoration day'" of vengeance, and plant the nuisance round her 

 grave. Tdough agriculture seems to be on the defensive against pests, the spe- 

 cial sources of information are broadly open to every farmer. The very ave- 

 nues through which the pests of agriculture come to all of us, bring to all of us 

 antidotes. It has been said, that the same British ships which carry out mis- 

 sionaries to Burmah, also export, from the factories of Birmingham, large car- 

 goes of lovely copper idols for the heathen. And in like manner the railroads 

 which convey the Colorado beetle all over the continent, also bring the solanum 

 rostratum on which it prefers to feed ; insects that like to eat the potato bug 

 itself; and books which furnish us with all the chemical and piactical knowl- 

 ecige thus far attained for its destruction. Among the terrors of Divine wrath 

 enumerated by tlie prophet, it is said "God shall hiss for the fly that cometh 

 out of the East," Until now, this broad country as a whole has hardly known 

 the terrors of au insect scourge. And we can yet not fully determine the ex- 



