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of freedom burning in their souls, with ambition to rise, to 

 make an honest place and home for themselves in the great 

 brotherhood of Christianized humanity, glad to be instructed in 

 all new methods of agricultural economy, ready to welcome all 

 the science you can give them and to turn it to the best account. 

 Their new status will create a demand for all that is known 

 and the best that can be done in this department of human 

 industry. Teachers in the art of farming, as soon as there is 

 peace and the workingmen are secure in their rights, will be 

 needed there and amply compensated, as they are now needed, 

 and for a long time will continue to be, in the more common 

 forms of education. It is the interest of the farmer of the 

 North to improve and elevate the labor of the South ; for in 

 so doing he adds dignity to his own calling and contributes to 

 the glory and prosperity of his blood-saved country. 



Looking over the stormy conflicts that have carried such des- 

 olation in their march, the great captain of the age issues the 

 glorious order, " Let us have peace ! " Yes, let us have peace 

 — let us have freedom — let us have general education — let us 

 have the pure, simple, elevating, ennobling morality of the gos- 

 pel of Christ. And then the farmer of America, with his 

 industry, with his skill, with his thrift, with his enterprise, and 

 with his boundless domain, may safely challenge the competi- 

 tion of the world. Let us have these, and the garlanded Genius 

 of Agriculture shall summon her sons to come from the stub- 

 born fields of the North and the soft savannas of the South, 

 from the banks of our magnificent rivers, and from every 

 mountain, plain and valley, filling the vast spaces between the 

 two great oceans, and unite in a grand shout of gratulation and 

 anthem of praise, which shall proclaim paradise restored over 

 this mighty continent. 



