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AGRICULTURAL.
The luilowing address was delivered before the agricul
tural society ot' Virginia on the 8lh tilt, by their Pres
ident, John Taylor, Esq. the “ Orator ” of Virginia.
Tj the Society of Virginia, for promoting
Agriculture.
Tlte chief obstacle to the success of a so
ciety for promoting agriculture in Virginia,
in my view, is the morbid aversion to wri
ting on that subject for publication. What
man was without letters, agriculture would
become without their use.—llad any science
renounced flic benefits derived from the art
of printing, it would have lingered far be
hind its sisters in improvement. Sciences,
universally the same, enjoy the great advan
tages of reaping harvests from every clime
and of being enriched by the contributions
of every language. Hut the subjection of
agriculture to the climate, soil & circumstan
ces of the position, upon which site must ex
ert her talents, remit rs her unable to extract
a system from foreign comp isitions, suitable
to d ssimilar mcritli ms : uul exposes her to
ernes and disapp nn’ •icnis, from incoiigi li
ons imitations of foreign practices.
Writing, printing and publishing, are even
nr>"t ner-ssary ti r the improvement of ag-
xienl re, than for the < i\ iiization and good
«i»'iii* rsof mankind, itinerant by nature,
Ei ' carries about his "virtues and accom-
pi .-.aments, and attract-- imitation by expo-
a them to view in numberless pi ares to a
in liitude of persons. Converts from error,
r u ness and vice, in iltiply rapidly ; au.l
t! ardor of youth to exi t I in gracefulness,
is powerful auxiliary to the force of ex: -n-
pl . The principles of moral rectitude
a (tie same in every dime ; but the im
pi. vcmcnts of agriculture, arc subservient
to a v.ist variety of circumstances, immove
able, seen by a few, surveyed transiently, A.
beheld under the tyranny of liaoit, or with
tli caution ol prejudice. Norcantlie spic-
tai r catch at a glance tlic. intricacies com-
poi.ti ling the most perfect agricultural sys
tem, whilst he intuitively f els the force o;
go u! ac tions, and perceives at once the beau
ty o elegant manners. As every country
must acquire agricultural knowledge, by its
ow n exertions, or remain ignorant, it ought
to consider whether ingenious discoveries or
skilful experiments, will not be generally
lost by changes of property, or buried in the
tombs to which their authors are devoted,
unless they are recorded and circulated by
the same means, which have saved science
from oblivion, and spread civilization wher
ever it exists. Is there a man who’ would
wish to carry out of the world a useful dis
covery he has made in it, or who would not
feel pleasure from the n flection, that lie ma
he .icing good to mankind alter be is dec.. 1 :
lie who shrinks from publishing .wuatever
uuhave this-effect, commits an art lit ab-
ho- . and loses the saiislat tion arising from
dis urertsted benevolence.
No i ensure of the genius of our country
is a.1 by the observation, that it d-ws
ii it app. .’ with much splendor in tiic scicnt e
of agriculture ; since the mind of m. n is
not ennstru- cd for the romprrhens'on of ab
struce subjci ts. without study ; nor for toe
attainment of skill without practice. An
evciteincu' -i exercise its powers, must pre-
cedi' a display ot its talents. The human
mind is enter ole 1 h idleness, and rendered
v.," -rous by exertion. By cuinpiSi'ions
c- in erning agriculture, the writer will im
prove his ow n knowledge, awaken the under
standing of others, and cultivate the olv
m le by wbi.ii perfection is attainable.
V ilimit them, whatever may lie the genius
of Virginians for the accomplishments by
whe o they are adorned, it will become dor-
ir. '-jii as to those by which they must live.
I be study of agriculture, and a habit of
Weeing upon the subject, will bestow upon
the wealthy farmers no small portion of
pleasure, by furnishing them with the means
of escaping from the irksomeness of two
much leisure, and from the regret of having
wasted time in unprofitable employments.
Those placed above the. necessity of bodily
lab.,r, must recompense themselves by men
tal, or sink into a state of apathy, unfriend
ly to health, happiness and virtue. What
subject can be better fitted for substituting
Eutivity for languor, than one which can
gratify self interest, provide fir the exercise
of benevolence, and awaken the love of our
country.
The strongest reason which invites us to
become attentive to the encouragement ol
agi i nil lira! publications, remains to be no
ticed. Agriculture, commerce and manu-
o fnetures, arc the three great objects if indi-
vidual interest and national solicitude. To
pr. s'T' e, each ought to understand its own
rights ; to lose them, ignorance will snfliee
for either. Though agriculture may need
ne charier, require no bounties, claim
no -ji‘ nopolics, and ask for no leg.tl augmen
tations of the prices of her commoditt's, she
may "yet feel an unpropitious legal provi-
d -nee, and languish under injustice. Thu*
she may flourish in the enjoyment of equal
rights with her compeers, she may he stunted
or even stifled by an unequal pressure.—
Commerce never coniines her knowledge to
tin structure of her ships and the proper
ties of the magnet; nor tnamifaitaring, to
the powers r-f steal., an.: the fabri aii.n of
tools. Both are politicians. Both write,
publish and petition, to gain improvement,
justice, or favor Both shift the la,vs hy
which they are affected. Why should agri
culture confine her attention to vehicles and
lose sight of cargoes ? Why should she be
careful of her lands and her tools, and care
less of her crops ? Both her sisters shun
this straight road tow ards iinpoveuslunent,
and renounce the recreation to be expected
from the soups of charity. Every human
interest inhabits a human heart, and every
human heart pants for wealth or competency.
Ought agriculture to be indifferent to bles
sings considered by her sisters as essential
for human happiness, or remain ignorant of
the extefit to which their wishes may hi'
gratified, without injury to her rights ?—May
she not at least be permitted to consider,
whether bounties to expel competition, un
like premiums for exciting it, are likely to
beget industry, perfection and economy; or
idleness, want of dexterity and profusion ?
Whether the English policy of forcing their
manufactures into a competition with those
of all the world ; or the policy of protect
ing ours against a competition in industry e-
von with agriculture ; is most likely to com
pass the end which both countries have in
view i Every social interest, to flourish,
must know whether it buys benefits or scour
ges. It agriculture has determined wheth
er an equal or unequal distribution of rights
among men, or between interests com]! ue;l
of men, is most suitable to her nature, or
most likely to advance her prosperity, she
has solid ground to stand on for .nuking tbi,-.
inquiry. If her political ignorance is like
a narcotic administered to a confiding vir
gin, no physician who wishes to see her vi
gilant in the preservation of her tr asure,
can disapprove of her acquiring an intmat.
knowledge of her own interest, and an acute
discernment of such measures as may ad
vance or obstruct it. How can she gain a
capacity for this discriiiiiiiaiion, so essential
to her prosperity, but by an industrious ex
ercise of her nest talents through the me
dium of the picss ?
in a struggle tor even among the empire,
true, sound an- virtuous social interests
ought agi'ici.ltui" to relinquish her preten
sions to iq ia!ity, if not to pre-eminence,
and tamely y a id up a prize, to gain wliit Ii
she lias so l.ii'gely contributed ? Perhaps a
free and < auuid discussion of her claim to
justice, may disclose some less worthy coin-
petitor, whose prowess may evince the ne
cessity for a coalition between those inter
ests, founded in principles of mutual right,
and pure friendship. Are not the conse
quences of such an union to private hapjii-
ticss and public prosperity, worthy of a dil
igent enquiry ? Laws may effect agriculture
as well as commerce and manufactures; and
uence as powerfully require the attention of a
sot iety confined to that special object, as laws
affecting commerce or manufactures, require
the attention of societies for their improve
ment.—Would not a resolution by a socie
ty for promoting commerce, manufactures
or internal improvements, to disregard legal
favor, justic e or injury and to repose in le
gal ignorance, be a remuneration of tlie
source of success, and prophetic of its fate ?
The patriotic advocates for internal im
provements, far from confining themselves
to mathematical discussions, contend, that
legislation constitutes the source of their
prosperity or decay, and laboriously inves
tigate its influence upon inferior objects.
Are these eu paries irrelative, or ought tne
i ardinal internal improvement to be prohib
ited by its advocates, from acquiring a spe
cies of knowledge, even necessary for the
prospi rity of her hand maids ? Is not «.
fair competition in industry under the shield
of equal laws, between the interests which
coverall as necessary to excite emulation
and to produce improvement, as such a com
petition among associated individuals’
bopposing that the maxim “ tie sutor ultra
crepuiam,'’ is as applicable to a science as to
a colder ; and the votaries of agriculture
ought to stick to the plough, and continue to
•* whistle as they drive ii for wantof thought”
whilst her friends ami hei foes are ericour
aged to Oev'onie. deeply learn', i in tliesubt-
elties of legislation ; yet as no one denies to
them the knowledge and skill necessary to
make good crops, because all eat; it is su
perfluous to consider, whether verbal com
munications anil local examples ; or essays
and booKs, constitute the best means for cf-
ftxting the end ; since all may he united,
and each may operate in its own sphere.
Agriculture lias certainly flourished most
in those countries, where the press lias been
most extensively’ employed as an auxiliary
to ex. aiple. Its great efficacy may possibly
be owing to a quality of the mind, neither
uufrequvnt nor inoperative. It is a quality
often offended by the wisest lectures and
the brightest examples ; but soothed by the
appropriation it can make from reading ; and
delighted by a display of acquirements,
drawn from the common reservoir***!' knowl
edge. To copy example, it looks upon as a
species of plagiarism ; and therefore tin
oust beautiful agricultural experiment un
recorded, would Uc frequently as ephemeral
as the tints of the butterfly. To yield to ver
bal lecture, it abhors, as a confession of ig
norance ; and the excellence of advice is
apt to strengthen its opposition. But the
activity of this quality, unrestrained by the
fear o* degradation, and excited by the hope j
if applause, may be enlightened through tin
press, and become highly useful in the im
provement of agriculture. Wherever it can
thence acquire, it will practice as its own
and propagate with zeal ; and its great
share, both of talent and industry, renders
it a coadjutor worthy of boing conciliated.
Great social ends are effected, hy seizing
a crisis in public opinion.—During the pre
dominance of a temper for emigration, in
flamed by the cheapness and proximity ot
new land, neither precept nor example could
demonstrate the propriety of improving tin-
old, or subvert the ruinous habit of killing,
because we could flee from the corpse. But
now when this habit is checked by the gene
ral appropriation of good new land, by its
high price, and by its increasing remoteness
from commerce ; the. public begins to loo!
for prosperity in the. true place, and to dis
close some ardor to discover a remedy f ir
evil, which emigration will soon cease to fur
nish.—As we cannot much longer fly from
worn out lands, and recompence ourselves
for unequal laws, by retiring to more fertih
regions ; we shall soon turn our eyes to
wards the means by which we may be ena
bled to li jc at home. Let not this new tern
per stop at hope or evaporate in theory. Lei
it not be neglected uy a society fm ;ir > o.t-
ing agriculture.—Enlivened by writ ng
printing, example and experiment; excited
by rewards ; and encouraged by political
justice, it is able to recover the fertility which
lias been lost, and to prevent the ruin ot ti
state, which is impending. Neglected, it
vill gradually sink inro despair, and the fa
i.n able moment for effecting an object, filled
.VUO gratifications for all classes of society ,
may possibly he lost forever.
MISCELLANY.
FROM THE DESK OF POOR ROBERT THE SCRIBE
i WILL BY ANU BY.”
Zounds! Sir,you may as well swear you’ll
never do it! I am out ui all patience with
these. “ by and by” folks. One liourof pre
sent. tense is worth a week n the tutiire.
Why, I know a batchelor as well calculated
for matrimonial felicity as every virtue and
accomplishment can render him ; but lie bad
been putting oil' the happy time from one
year to another, always resolving that he
would marry “ by anU by”—and •• uy
by” —till the best ten years of Ins life are
gone, and he is still resolving, anil i fear
“ will die the same.”
lie that wouid gather the roses of matri
mony, should wed in the May of life, n
you wish only the leaves anti thorns, why,
poor Robert says, put it oil till September,
a Procrastination is tne thief ot time.”
I made a visit last winter to see my old
friend Jeremy Careless. When we put o
hors s in the stable, he took me to lies barn
floor to see some white wheat he bad jus.
threshed. I observed to him that one of ih
boards of the barn was nearly falling, and
lie iuul better nail it. 1 will “ Oy ana by,”
said he. Things about the farm looked a
little as though “ by and by” folks lived
there. Next morning the hoys came run
ning with sad news. An uoiTily bull lud
torn off the board ; all the cattle had sui
ped and breakfasted on the white wheat
and old brindle the best cow in the drov
was foundered so that she died. Now two
nails worth a penny—and five initiates time
would have sat ed the life of the old briudle,
and the white wneat into the bargain. *< A
stitch in time saves nine.”
Passing by my neighbor Nmlwell’s the o-
tlicr day I saw that his wife had made a tin'
garden, and the early jieas were shooting
luxuriantly above the ground. “ It looks
well,”—said I—“ neighbor—but here is a
nole in your fence, which you had better
mend, or the hogs w ill ruin your garden.”
” 1 will by and by,” said he. Happening
to go by there two days after, I was half
deafened with the cry of ” who-ee—who-ee
—stu-boy—stu-boy.” A drove of hogs had
come along, and while my neighbor was tak
ing a nap, they had crawled through tin* hr i- *
ken fence, and destroyed the labor of a week.
—“ Never put off till to-morrow what you
can do to-day”—poor Robert says.
SAW-GIN BUSINESS.
•' JTMIE subscriber returns his thanks to the pub-
M lie for the liberal encouragement which be
received in bis business, and informs them that
he has declined the same, and recommends -Mr
A. J. Brown, as he is a good workman, and will
work on inv plan generally j Mr. Brown lias
worked with me some time and I think him able
to give satisfaction. elisha reid.
STOP THE VILLAIN.
RUNAWAY from the
ring in Putnam
SuhlCfj
Georgia,,.a likely
v&ri
negro fellow—lie passe's by
ous names when run .way
. proper name is Dick, his
£ destitute of an ear, havingjl
cut oft by the Indians f 0 r\g
took away with him a till
finished and very excellent rifle gun,’which I
stole—an.v person apprehending and securil
the above described villain, will do an act of
tice, for which they shall be well rewarded;if*
EEO. ABERCROMBIE-
June 25,1818.
■ a horse.
SALE OF A FBI ('AN SLAVES.
4\N Monday the lTth of August next in ft
1 "town of Milledgcville, will be exposedt!
public sale, to the highest bidder, between 65
and 70 prime African She es, which have be«
forfeited tr the state of Georgia, in consequence
of their having been introduced contrary tofim
Laws of this state, and of the United States.—
Indisputable titles will be made ami prompt mi.
ment required. Sales to continue from day ()
day until completed.
By order of the Governor,
Charles Williamson, A»ent.
June 15,
The Editors of the Savannah Republican, At.
gusta Chronicle. Athens Gazette and VVash'agl
t"n News, are requested to publish the aboved.
vertisement in their respective papers, till the
dav of sale.
STOP THE RUNAWAYS?"
(84 RAN A WAY from the subscri-
ber’s plantation, near Eatontog
y&k two negro fellows, one named Ek
IM lica. 40 or 45 years of age,-.bout
jjj six feet high, and proportionate
^size of a yellowish complexion,
for a full blooded negro, and of humblemannen,
The other named Solomon, 18 or 19 years of ,n,
of middle size, smooth skin, and rather did
complexion, thick pouting lips, full eyes, ail
bends more than usual in his knees when k
walks—had on oznaburg and tow linen clotia
when they went aw: j They will nuke for'
giuia. A liberal rev aid will be given, fur tliei
apprehension and securement, and in case of de.
livery all expenses paid.
c. B. STROXO.
Eatonton, Georg':,, July 1, 1S18
£>’
PRACTICE OF .MEDle INE.
R. AY IIITE having permanently let ”t
himself at tne plantaion belong, t, >x
state of Major Edward White, near F. ft
mills, will attend promptly to any prof- 1
calls. Jones county, Jn
i'lFTEEN M-.LARS REW.v
TRAYED or stolen from the subscribe-
> J the 20th ' ! ay of May last, a small bai "it,
three years old, with a white spot in her loo'-ed,
shod all round, branded on the shoulder, hut lit
brand not recollected, one white hind foot, ba-.kj
tail and well made. The above reward will lx
given, to any person who will deliver to me slid
mare, and reasonable compensation will be i
to any person who will inform me where she nit
oe bad.
RICHARD HIGGASOX.
Jasper, 8 miles from Monticello, June 24.
NOTICE.
N INE MONTHS afterdate application will
bt made to the honorable the inferior court
of Morgan county, when sitting for ordinary par*
po,es, I’m leave to sell one half lot of land, No-
242, fourth district, lying in said countv, it lieinf
the real estate cf Fanny Rogers, deceased, fit
me k»mefit of the heirs of said deceased.
* DRURY ROGERS, adm’r.
January IT, 1818.
N
NOTICE.
TINE months after date, application will k
_ H made, to the honorable the Inferior Court d
Morgan county, when sitting as a Court ol d : ‘
binary, f >r leave to sell one hundred and fifty i*
cresof land, lying in said county, known by M
313, for the benefit of the heirs ot GeorgeTboaip*
son, deceased.
wm. gill, ■■dm'r.
THO. DA VIS. A dill r
in i ight of his "ift.
Morgan county, May 13, 1818.
T HE subscriber respectfully informs the pub
lic, that he has made a choice collection of
materials, and is now ready to make engagments
for the approaching season—he will pursue Mr.
Reid’s great improvement, viz: that of facing
the breast with steel, which makes them last
much longer, and gin infinitely better. Those
who wish to purchase, had better apply early, so
that they may be suited as to the size.
He has a likely, smart young fellow, who
is an excellent brick layer and plasterer, that he
will dispose of on reasonable terms for cash.
A. j. BROWN.
*«* Liberal wages will be given to a good Jour
neyman. Milledgeville, June 15.
JOB FRliV: LNG.
Of all kind*, done at the Office of the
'• Reflector.’
NOTICE.
INE months after date hereof, app!if l,l6 J
will be made to the honorable the Court 0 '
Ordinary of Morgan county, for leave to sell®
divide a Lot of land, the property of Audi**
Brown, late of said county, deceased, wlieruntw
subscriber now lives, for the benefit of the heir*.
JOSEPH MORROYV, ad'";''
in right uf his""*'
Dec. 16, 181T.
NOTICE.
X 'INE months after date, application will »
made to the honorable the Court of Ordina
ry, of YVashington county, for leave to sell tore*
hundred and twenty acres of land, sdjoininS
Jesse Kroom and others, part of the real * stl
of William B. Murphey, deceased, sold for J
benefit of the heirs and creditors of said^ oe*
ceased. jesse kroom, adi" r, J
alsev manning, afi®
March 12,1818.
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