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the disease of the potato, your name would be immor- 

 talized and go down to the latest generation. How 

 extensive, how vast is the field of intellectual research, 

 and how can you resist ? 



Then young men, come to the rescue of your good 

 old Commonwealth, which the whole civilized world 

 respects and admires for her high position, for civil and 

 religious liberty, for her jewels that sparkle in every 

 town and hamlet and her institutions of learning. — 

 Come to the rescue of her agricultural interests, the 

 paternal parent of all her greatness. Hemember that 

 he who makes an extra blade of grass 'o grow, or an 

 extra bushel of wheat or corn, is a benefactor, and has 

 lived to some purpose. He who has produced an ad- 

 ditional flower that has laden the gentle breezes with 

 a fragrance, has cultivated refinement in his own 

 heart ; has beautified and adorned the outward worlds 

 and lived to sume purpose. 



