ADDRESS. 9 



water his grave ; certainly not tliosc bound to him earliest, by the 

 heart's lest aftections, in lil'e's happy morning. Never did I see 

 this feeling so strongly developed as in my recent visit to Caliibr- 

 nia. The eyes of those who went i'roni us would iill in a moment 

 when I told them of home, sweet home. When once addressing a 

 Dutch farming population on the Tunnel Railroad, between North 

 Adams and Troy, N. Y., urging upon them the duty of subscribing 

 to the stock, both for the saving in the transportation of produce 

 as well as prospective value of the stock when the tunnel was 

 done, I perceived, after an hour's effort upon dollars and cents, in 

 looking round upon my audience, that for all practical purposes I 

 might as well have been talking to an iceberg. ^' Bury me with my 

 kindred is God's inspiration," I exclaimed. Every phlegmatic 

 Teuton^ or son of a Teuton raised his head and opened his sleepy 

 eyes. " Where are your children ? Aye, and your children's 

 children ? Why not give them the means and facilities of 

 staying at home? What are you doing with this part of 

 God's own vineyard hut dimwisMng every day in population, as 

 appears by your own census ? You are going to the wall with your 

 homes old and dusty. In scripture parlance, you seldom marry or 

 are given in marriage. Have you forgotten- to read the book of 

 Genesis ? Do you wish to hear of th^death of a beloved son, 

 daughter, sister or brother, long afteJ*T.hey have been consigned to 

 native earth, always in some distant state ; or to keep them on 

 your farms till you or they arrive at that shadowy valley where the 

 soul's yearning is for its loved ones, on its transit to eternity, for 

 to close the eye upon Heaven's light ?" There was too much of the 

 Auld Lang Syne of the immortal Burns in this. The subscription 

 was forthcoming. 



If then we love our own homes and our kindred, why should we 

 not manage to keep them at home'? Let those who como to us 

 from abroad, the German or the Scandinavian, people the West. 

 We have given enough of our blood and character there until we 

 can restore ourselves here. We must combat the mistaken idea, 

 that after weighing the whole matter, pro and con, the West is su- 

 perior to New England, especially Massachusetts, if we wish to 

 spend our lives in health and comfort. 



We must adopt a higher standard of education, physical as well 

 as mental, admitting the great truth, that the latter depends for its 

 vigor and life upon the farmer. 



We must make our boys work on the soil six months of the 

 twelve. They will probably learn more at school the other six 

 months than if they attended the whole year. Give them patches 



