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ishing under the same bright banner^ and crowded 

 with upwards of fifteen millions of freemen. — What 

 a spectacle for the world to admire I what a cause 

 of self-gratulation to us ? 



The ^May Flower/ laden with the seeds of liberty^ 

 touched then w4th drooping sails a savage and in- 

 hospitable shore— yioti?, from the same strand, the 

 moving palaces of steam and the countless ships of 

 commerce, depart and arrive between cities of as- 

 tonishing wealth and population. I repeat it that 

 now is the time for our most active exertions in the 

 noble cause of Agriculture, and its patron, Horticul- 

 ture — if we desire to keep pace with the wide 

 spreading manufactures and commerce of our union. 



To the farmer and agriculturist is offered a climate 

 and soil more fertile, varied and healthy than any 

 under the sun, combining the heat of the tropics 

 with the temperatures of the north and west, and 

 inviting him to cultivate every variety of produce : 

 while the growth of distinct and inexhaustible staples, 

 presents what is no where to be found under the same 

 government, agricultural resources of priceless value, 

 which can in no event compete with and oppose each 

 other, in the same foreign or domestic market. 



The south; opulent in the mimic snow of the 

 cotton and the golden harvests of the rice field, binds 

 the planter to his soil by the strong tie of interest^ 

 and makes his staple the very life's blood of ex- 

 change and commerce ; while the northern, western 

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