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INDIANA FARMER. Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, mechanics, and the Useful Arts' ^^innTs?7'! Eo'"- RICHMOND, IND., NOV. 1, 1851. j KbeU W. Speech of Gov. Joseph A. Wright, DELIVERED BEFORE THE WAYNE:COUNTY AGRICULTURAL FAIR, HELD AT RICHMOND, ON TUES- ; DAY, WEDNESDAY, AND THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7th, 8th, and Oth. 1831. Mr. President, and Gentlemen of the Wayne County Agricultural Society : The pursuits of my life have been as much varied as most men, yet in accepting your kind' invitation to address you, I did not suppose; that it was possible for me to enlighten the practical farmers and mechanics of the county of Wayne. Yet when I consider the efforts now making to excite our fellow citizens on the subject of labor, to arouse the laboring men of tho State, the spirit of emulation that is being kindled every where, I could not do otherwise than by my presence contribute my mite to urge forward this movement. My only regret is, that my time has been so occupied that I feel almost entirely unprepared to address so large and intelligent a portion of our fellow citizens. What is wanting in me, you have well remedied in the Exhibition that surrounds us, of the labor, skill and production of the country. What is national prosperity ? A nation may have within its borders an abundance of the precious metals ; it may "have a world-wide commerce? it may have at its command a powerful Army, and a Navy second to none on the seas; within its Territories Arts, Science, Mechanics, Agriculture and Manufactures may be all carried to high degrees in the scale of perfection ; its Lakes, Rivers, Canals, Railroads and all its public highways maybe thronged with busy men of enterprise, and the various productions of genius, skill and labor. But these evidences of national prosperity are not enough. Great Britain presents them all in a strong light before the world ; and yet millions who compose the main body of the nation are laboring in her mines, her factories, her workshops and her fields ; and the greater part of these millions are suffering under the evils of ignorance, servility, petty tyranny and unre- tjuitted toil; and in that condition, generation after generations of men struggle through a cheerless life of homeless and hopeless poverty. Hundreds of men thus live, labor and die in order that one unproducing Dives may be ''clothed in purple and and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day." There may be prosperity among classes in Monarchies and even Despotisms ; but true national prosperity, in its most enlarged sense, cannot exist under such forms of government. The people of the United States have within their reach all the means necessary to enable them to establish for themselves tho highest state of national prosperity. A spirit of freedom, equality, independence and self-reliance, is the inheritance of every citizen. Tho laws make no privileged classes. The roads to usefulness, to wealth and to honorable distinction are open to all. Aided by the indispensable qualities of virtue, industry and knowledge, the farmer boy, or the apprentice boy of to-day may in a fewyears be the President of a Republic stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and holding the first rank among tho nations of the earth. National prosperity is the aggregate of individual happiness, caused by the distribution of the blessings of government under equal laws, by which each man receives the due reward of his own labor. The true basis of all national prosperity will bo found in an universal system of practical learning, by which the youth of the land shall be taught to understand and perform their political, civil and religious duties, as members of this Confederacy. Among the youth of a nation he is not only the orphan who is left without father or mother; that youth, whose government neglects to provide means for his advancement in knowledge, is surely in the most desolate state of orphanage. There is no one thing, after religion, virtue and knowledge, that contributes so much to the permanent prosperity of a nation as that which I call the inventive talent. It is this that has contributed much to the wealth, commercial im; portance and prosperity of England; and it is the same principle, operating in a field more free, that is now doing so much in our own Republic. We are behind no people on the face of thc globe in mechanical genius and skill, and this is mainly to be attributed to our free institutions. With us, if a mechanic has a hundred hands at work in one shop, each man does not regard himself as a mere copying machine, compelled to follow, without question the precise directions given to him by the master mechanic ; but he thinks while at work, and he takes the liberty of making suggestions as to thc propriety or expediency of changing this wheel or that cog. He does not feel himself to be a mere servant to do the bidding of his master ; but he thinks, plans, reasons and suggests.— Thus the powers of many minds are brought to bear on the investigation of every propos<-4 improvement in Aluchanics or Agriculture. In this consists the secret of our success.
Object Description
Title | Indiana farmer, 1851, v. 01, no. 06 (Nov. 1) |
Purdue Identification Number | INFA0106 |
Date of Original | 1851 |
Subjects (LCSH) |
Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
Subjects (NALT) |
agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
Genre | Periodical |
Coverage | United States - Indiana |
Type | text |
Format | JP2 |
Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
Rights Statement | Content in the Indiana Farmer Collection is in the public domain (published before 1923) or lacks a known copyright holder. Digital images in the collection may be used for educational, non-commercial, or not-for-profit purposes. |
Repository | Indiana State Library |
Date Digitized | 2011-02-14 |
Digitization Information | Original scanned at 300 ppi on a Bookeye 3 scanner using internal software. Display images generated in CONTENTdm as JP2000s; file format for archival copy is uncompressed TIF format. |
Description
Title | Page 81 |
Subjects (LCSH) |
Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
Subjects (NALT) |
agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
Genre | Periodical |
Call Number of Original | 630.5 In2 |
Location of Original | Hicks Repository |
Coverage | Indiana |
Type | text |
Format | JP2 |
Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
Rights Statement | Content in the Indiana Farmer Collection is in the public domain (published before 1923) or lacks a known copyright holder. Digital images in the collection may be used for educational, non-commercial, or non-for-profit purposes. |
Repository | Purdue University Libraries |
Digitization Information | Orignal scanned at 300 ppi on a Bookeye 3 scanner using internal software. Display images generated in CONTENTdm as JP2000s; file format for archival copy is uncompressed TIF format. |
Transcript | INDIANA FARMER. Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, mechanics, and the Useful Arts' ^^innTs?7'! Eo'"- RICHMOND, IND., NOV. 1, 1851. j KbeU W. Speech of Gov. Joseph A. Wright, DELIVERED BEFORE THE WAYNE:COUNTY AGRICULTURAL FAIR, HELD AT RICHMOND, ON TUES- ; DAY, WEDNESDAY, AND THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7th, 8th, and Oth. 1831. Mr. President, and Gentlemen of the Wayne County Agricultural Society : The pursuits of my life have been as much varied as most men, yet in accepting your kind' invitation to address you, I did not suppose; that it was possible for me to enlighten the practical farmers and mechanics of the county of Wayne. Yet when I consider the efforts now making to excite our fellow citizens on the subject of labor, to arouse the laboring men of tho State, the spirit of emulation that is being kindled every where, I could not do otherwise than by my presence contribute my mite to urge forward this movement. My only regret is, that my time has been so occupied that I feel almost entirely unprepared to address so large and intelligent a portion of our fellow citizens. What is wanting in me, you have well remedied in the Exhibition that surrounds us, of the labor, skill and production of the country. What is national prosperity ? A nation may have within its borders an abundance of the precious metals ; it may "have a world-wide commerce? it may have at its command a powerful Army, and a Navy second to none on the seas; within its Territories Arts, Science, Mechanics, Agriculture and Manufactures may be all carried to high degrees in the scale of perfection ; its Lakes, Rivers, Canals, Railroads and all its public highways maybe thronged with busy men of enterprise, and the various productions of genius, skill and labor. But these evidences of national prosperity are not enough. Great Britain presents them all in a strong light before the world ; and yet millions who compose the main body of the nation are laboring in her mines, her factories, her workshops and her fields ; and the greater part of these millions are suffering under the evils of ignorance, servility, petty tyranny and unre- tjuitted toil; and in that condition, generation after generations of men struggle through a cheerless life of homeless and hopeless poverty. Hundreds of men thus live, labor and die in order that one unproducing Dives may be ''clothed in purple and and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day." There may be prosperity among classes in Monarchies and even Despotisms ; but true national prosperity, in its most enlarged sense, cannot exist under such forms of government. The people of the United States have within their reach all the means necessary to enable them to establish for themselves tho highest state of national prosperity. A spirit of freedom, equality, independence and self-reliance, is the inheritance of every citizen. Tho laws make no privileged classes. The roads to usefulness, to wealth and to honorable distinction are open to all. Aided by the indispensable qualities of virtue, industry and knowledge, the farmer boy, or the apprentice boy of to-day may in a fewyears be the President of a Republic stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and holding the first rank among tho nations of the earth. National prosperity is the aggregate of individual happiness, caused by the distribution of the blessings of government under equal laws, by which each man receives the due reward of his own labor. The true basis of all national prosperity will bo found in an universal system of practical learning, by which the youth of the land shall be taught to understand and perform their political, civil and religious duties, as members of this Confederacy. Among the youth of a nation he is not only the orphan who is left without father or mother; that youth, whose government neglects to provide means for his advancement in knowledge, is surely in the most desolate state of orphanage. There is no one thing, after religion, virtue and knowledge, that contributes so much to the permanent prosperity of a nation as that which I call the inventive talent. It is this that has contributed much to the wealth, commercial im; portance and prosperity of England; and it is the same principle, operating in a field more free, that is now doing so much in our own Republic. We are behind no people on the face of thc globe in mechanical genius and skill, and this is mainly to be attributed to our free institutions. With us, if a mechanic has a hundred hands at work in one shop, each man does not regard himself as a mere copying machine, compelled to follow, without question the precise directions given to him by the master mechanic ; but he thinks while at work, and he takes the liberty of making suggestions as to thc propriety or expediency of changing this wheel or that cog. He does not feel himself to be a mere servant to do the bidding of his master ; but he thinks, plans, reasons and suggests.— Thus the powers of many minds are brought to bear on the investigation of every propos<-4 improvement in Aluchanics or Agriculture. In this consists the secret of our success. |
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