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ting losses and speaking of them in a tone that bor- 

 ders upon complaint. The public journals often in- 

 timate that we are a complaining if not ungrateful 

 brotherhood. I fear that our common, but thought- 

 less modes of speaking, will too nearly justify them 

 in casting upon us the reproach. Let us err, if err 

 we must, on that side which shows a confiding trust 

 in the unsearchable wisdom and boundless power of 

 Him who has promised that " seed time and harvest 

 shall not fail." 



*' O fortunatos nimium, sua si bona norint 

 Agricolas," 



has been echoed by every age since it fell from the 

 lips of Maro's polished muse. Its truth may pass un- 

 questioned. Though pleasure and happiness may be 

 strewed as thickly upon the paths in which high 

 minded and faithful mechanics, merchants, manufac- 

 turers, physicians, lawyers and divines wend their 

 various ways, as over the husbandman's fields, it is 

 yet true, that farmers would be a happy class, could 

 they but appreciate in all its fulness, the good they 

 may enjoy. — And I close, Farmers of Essex, by ap- 

 pealing to you to be contented with your honorable 

 pursuit, and to press forward with " unfaltering and 

 unwearied steps," in the processes of acquiring Agri- 

 cultural knowledge, of improving your farms, and in- 

 creasing your productions ; by appealing to you, also, 

 and above all, to sow to the spirit, that you may 

 pluck unfading flowers, and gather immortal fruits in 

 the fair gardens of the world above. 



