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ideas of Freedom, of Republican Government, to universal edu- 

 cation, and to the principles of science. Institutions for the study 

 of Agricultural sciences should be established in every State in 

 our Union, The public mind must be awakened on this subject. 

 Europe has schools and colleges for the education of young men, 

 who are to devote themselves to the practical duties of Farming. 

 Why overlook the subject in America ? 



Agriculture, when practised as an art, is an honorable pursuit. 

 When pursued as a science, it is an ennobling profession. The 

 Earl of Carlisle, in addressing an Agricultual gathering of York- 

 shiremen, said, with evident emotions of exulting patriotism, " I 

 saw on the plains of Troy the clod-crusher of Crosskill, the drills 

 and the horse-hoes of Garrett, and the ploughs of Howard and 

 Ransome." 



From the shops of America issue every implement of an im- 

 proved husbandry. The skill and genius of the mechanics of 

 New England may be seen on the sands of Egypt and along the 

 grain-growing shores of the Baltic ; on the tilled fields of Eng- 

 land ; down the great delta of the Mississippi, and the table-lands 

 of Mexico. Wherever commerce unfurls her wings of peace, 

 there we send the products of our toil. 



As men of intelligence, the active merchant or overwrought 

 statesman, retire from the duties of life, how often they return to 

 the favorite pursuits of their youth. Washington laid down the 

 cares of State for the quiet shades of Mount Vernon. Jefferson 

 hes at Monticello ! Jackson sleeps at the Hermitage. Clay 

 reposes at Ashland. Calhoun always delighted in the beauties 

 of his own mountain home, and around his grave flower the 

 gentle magnolias planted by his own hand. We who have hearts 

 can never forget when our own great statesman went doAvn by 

 that sea which he loved so well, and there, amidst his own fields, 

 fragrant with the breath of departing Summer, with his patient 

 herds grazing around him — as the great barons die — on the soil 

 endeared by sweetest memories of life, health, ambition, " cares 

 of State," of a future eternal in the heavens, — so he died, and 

 the ocean chants the requiem, through changing seasons, over the 

 grave of the Statesman and Farmer of Marshficld. 



Said Washington, in his Message to Congress in 1796, " It will 

 not be doubted that, with reference either to individual or national 



