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LOUISVILLE. JEFFERSON COUNTY, GA., .JULY 3,1870.’
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THE PARTING lIOUK. ~
BY EDWARD POLLACK.
T(cere's something in the “parting hour”
Will chill the warmest heart,
Yet kindred, comrades, lovers, friends
'Are fated all to part;
But this I’ve seen—and many a pang
Has pressed it on my mind—
The one who goes is happier
Than those he leaves behind.
No matter what the journey may be,
Adventurous, dangerous, fair,
To the wild deep or bleak frontier,
To solitude or war,
Still something cheers the heart
In all of human kind.
And they who go are happier
Than those they leave behind.
The bride goes to the bridegroom’s
home
With doubting and with tears
But does not Hope her rainbow spread
Across her cloudy fears?
Alas the mother who remains,
What comfort can she find?
But this—the gone is happier
Than the one she leaves Behind.
Have you a friend, a comrade dear,
An old and trusted friend?
Be sure your term of sweet concourse
At length will have an end !
And when you part—as prat yon will—
O take it not unkind
That he who goes is happier
Than those he leaves behind.
God wills it so—and so it is ;
The pilgrims on their way
Though weak aud worn, more cheerful
are
Than all the rest who stay ;
And when at last poor man subdued
Lies down to death resigned,
May he not still be happier far
Than those he leaves behind?
SPEECH DELIVERED BEFORE
THE JEFFERSON AGRICUL
TURAL SOCIETY.
Wood Lawn, Jefferson Cos., Ga. )
July 26th, 1876. <
Mr. R. J. Boyd:
Dear Sir. —The Jefferson Agricultu
ral S.ocjety, and audience * having
listener! with the greatest pleasure to
the very able and appropriate address
delivered by you to-day, (in response
to a unanimous request of the Society)
on the occasion of their annual meet
ing, the Chairman, carrying
out the desire of the Society, have con
stituted us a commtitee and made it
our pleasant duty to request you to
have the same published in the
News & Farmer, and allow us to say
that believing as we do that its more
general dissemination is calculated to
subserve the public good, we urge you
to comply with tills Reasonable request
at your earliest convenience.
Respectfully,
R. 11. CIIAPLER, J
S. R. McNair, C Comm’t.
J. W. Brinson, j
Gentlemen :—I did not expect this
request, and while I would not occupy
a position that would make me appear
conspicuous by any act of my own, es
pecially when it is known that the
paper you name I am interested in, yet
by your kind note I am left no alter
native but to comply, and thanking you
very much for compliments <£c., I am
very respectfully,
R. J Boyd.
Ladies and gentlemen of the Agri
cultural Club of Jefferson county: I
am here to-day at your kind solicita
tion, and when I come to consider the
the great importance of the subject
that is engaging your attention, and
which you have asked me to address
you upon to-day, I feel more than ever
my inability to do justice to the subject,
and taking into consideration the indi
vidual positions you occupy as planters,
my still greater inability to do you jus*
lice with the ocoasion that ha3 called you
together. But when I come to think of
the groat compliment you have paid
me, and when the sense of the duty
that devolves upon every man to do
something for agriculture, presses itself
upon me, I feel myself constrained to
respond, as best I can, to a request
unanimous with your body.
I have said that the subject was one
of importance, and the repetition of
that truth is not necessary to impress
it upon you. All classes everywhere
are impressed with this fact. Men
everywhere are not only impressed in
regard to this truth, but they are deeply,
forcibly interested. It matters but lit
tle whether a man makes shoes, deals
In merchandise, sails upon the sdas and
directs the movements of the ships, that
bear to and fro, exports and imports
across the ocean, whether or not ho be
an editor, or a dealer in stock, a lawyer,
or a doctor, he watches the prospects
of agriculture, as they swell or sink,
as they advance or decline, for in them
he sees his future, and that of his fam
ily, and the future of his country too.
He takes these in view, and in propor
tion as the agricultural interest pro
gresses, or retrogrades, just in this
proportion is he supported, encouraged
or discouraged. Thus wc see in its im
portance, and the propelling influence
it has over every department of busi
ness, a stimulous engendered, that vi
brates like the pendulum of a clock,
and keeps all the machinery of bnsi-
ness and trade alive and clicking. If
its wheels clog, if its mainspring be
come detached or bro .eu, no longer
can it bo pointed to as an index of
time, enterprise lags, and all the arte
ries of commerce and national growth
become as sluggish as the waters of a
stagnant pool.
This, however, is an axiom. Every
body knows that the heart is the great
centre of life—that by its throbings
the blood is pulsed into every part of
the body, feeding and maintaining, and
evermore rt-supplying that sustenance
which if withheld or withdrawn for a
momeut, would cause existence to ebb
into eternal night. Everybody knows
equally well that if agriculture is with
held that the blood of the land is
sapped, and it ceases to live, enterprise
dies, commerce rots upon her seas, and
the mighty cities of the plain crumble
into dust.
I have have spoke of its general,
now I will speak of its individual im
portance. You have often heard the
remark that it “takes all kinds of peo
ple to make a world.” It takes all
kinds of vegetables to make a vegeta
ble world. This is also true as regards
the mineral, as well as the animal
kingdom. How doubly true is it then
that the occupations and pursuits of
life must be varied. Of the different
pursuits, agriculture is what claims
your attention, and it is not only one
of the absolute necessities as to occupa
tion and progression, that in its proper
elevation and legitimate results, makes
a people all that they are ever expected
to be, honorable, intelligent, prosper
ous and happy, but it does this for
every man that engages in it. If you,
as a community, depended upon some
thing else principally-, some other great
industrial cardinal pursuit, such as
mining or manufacture, why then I
would urge you, in all the ardor of my
nature, to make it all that it could be
made, continually labor to perfect a
system of thorough and easy access of
accomplishment to the cuds aimed
at. In agriculture, it is doubly im
portant. As individuals, this is
the industry of your life, it is the
great industry of your country. In
your minds it has occupied the past.
It is absorbing the present, and it takes
hold upon the future—the dark uncer
tain future—dark at best, look at it
as we may, but with very little pro
gressiou in this all important matter,
and this all .absorbing pursuit, in
terminably dark.
In everything that engages our atten
tion there is a just pride to excel,
say nothing c>f necessities pressing
themselves upon us, and this pride
is not only just, but; it is, in a
high degree, commendable—the spirit
ot emulation that stirs up the lagging en
ergies of the professor in sciences —tne
merchant in his fabrics, and the rail
road kings submerged amidst rolling
stocks, threatened monopolies, and
more direct routes. I say that outside
of the necessity which usually exist,
(and which does exist among us) there
is a pride or a rivalry, or call it what
you may, that wake men up to a spirit,
of energy, that cause them to compass
difioulties wherever and however met.l
The invincible spirit of Napoleon im
polled him to say “Tnere shall be no
alps,” aud he built his perfect roads,
climbing by graded gal.eries, the steeli
est precipices, until Italy was as open
to Paris as any town in Franco. And
think not that this was a step of im
petuous progress, one of the accidents
of fortune in the life of a great man.
Napoleon was a great calculator. It
was the action of matured thought. It
was one of the well defined projects ot
a great mind and a powerful will.
Now, gentlemen, speaking of the in
dividual importance of the pursuit and
the industrial life that we lead as a
people, it is essential that we have the
pride which I have spoken of, for it
will press us forward to possibilities
that will open up to us a plentitude of
garnered treasures, that will at first
astound us. It is essential that we
have the spirit that actuated the great
hero of France aud of the world, that
I have spoken of. Let us know
what is possible in this pursuit and this
life that we have taken up, and then
let no impediments stands in our way.
I have spoken of certain feelings and
causes that should actuate us as indi
viduals in onr etforts and in our ener
gies, to press forward towards progress,
and towards results that the whole
country languishes for, from one ex
treme to the other. If the country
languishes for results of’prosperity and
plenty, then this demand of the country
intmiates, it does more—it cries aloud
from the house-tops tiiat there is a ne
cessity, as I have said before. It -is a
strong necessity, and we cannot evade
it. Everything in the way of honest
livelihood depends upon it, the-future
of our children depend ’upon it. Shall
we leave them beggars, on a barren
soil—shall we leave them no experience
of thrift, no bright record which may
guide them and encourage them iff the
pursuits which they must follow after
us? Shall we leave them an inheritance
that, brings no income and that they
are ashamed of, because it has kept
their grand-fathers, and their fathers’
noso to the grindstone ever since thoir
memory serves them in the matter, and
which promises them a like scanty sub
sistence, that looks far away into a
more desolate future; that has kept
them in partial darkness in the very
midst ot light, that has effectually
warded from them the benefits that ao
erue from enlightunent and knowledge,
and the great good that comes of social
I and intellectual advancement? The
answer to these questions in every
man’s mind must be nay. Yet to avoid
,it we must wake up to the necessities
of the hour, and shake off the shackles
that bind us as slaves.
We all sigh for a happy country,
dotted over by green farms and
good orchards, aud a population
that live in plenty and peace and
harmony at home, with educational ad
vantages, that come a3 surely in the
track of these blessing and acquire
ments, as germination follows the re
turn of spring, or as the harvest is the
sequel of a fruitful season and a gra
cious providence. I say we sigh for a
happy country, harmony and good will
and plenty, and its attending concomi
tants. - I am inclined to look on the
bright side, and I think it so much bet
ter that all men should, not ignoring
however, the stern realities of life that,
they must meet, and becoming indifer
ent to the storm clouds that threaten
and howl overhead, not neglecting to
seek some safe harbor, where the boot
ing billows surge and swell and sweep
around and about. This would bo
madness. But every cloud has a sil
ver lining, every night has its daign,
when the darkness is shut away,
and the light come3 in on us in its
glory. The great trouble w ith the peo
ple is that they do not “make hay while
the sun shines.”
1 would rather not speak of the
evils that have brooded over this land
like the dark wings of a lihriit
bird, and that have settled upon
it and oppressed it, politically, morally
aud religiously, like a horrible night
mare, but it is unavoidable, for° in
drawing comparisons, contrasts are al
ways necessary. The people started
out after the civil trouble was over
much like many of us went into the
army, they were afraid it would all be
made be ore they would have a show
ing at it. El dorados stretched out for
them in broad inviting fields, fortunes
seemed to be at easy grasp. J ÜB c one or
two cotton crops and the work would be
done. This induced extravagance, and
men could get what they wanted, wheth
er they had any property or not. It.
produced speculative farming, specula
tive merchandising, and a quantity of
cotton that overstocked the market,
but did not reduce their meat stuffs and
bread stufis in price, which they con
tinued to buy, and to a great extent do
yet. The fact was soon patent that
this country. as a people, were in debt,
and with political evils, in connection
aud with a.species of labor that worked
about one-half of its time, which in
thousands of instances have been con
stituted responsible land tenants, and
set up in business without one dollar in
hand to secure the risk thus taken,
often leaving the owner of the land the
bag to hold; caused trouble and dis
trust. These are some of the mis
takes. These mistakes have caused
pressure and pressure has caused
evasion, of one kind or other.—
In fact, fellow citizens, the State of
Georgia has actually, in some instan
ces, to the detriment of its financial
security and the safety of the property
of its sovereign people, made laws to
shield property from the claims of hon
est creditors. It has all the time, too,
in the face of this, held out every in
ducement to encourage the contraction
of debts.
The laws I refer te, you are familiar
with. They are bad laws, and while
they may not have been intended to
carry with them this inotly train of
disease, distemper, and dishonest)',
they have be in the consequent attend
ants. Some will say agriculturally we
are at a low ebb. Financially, wo are
at a low ebb, morally and religiously
wc are at a fearfully low tide, for among
churches and societies and brother
hoods that exist all over the land, and
whose membership is in name legion,
and whose object is reform and relig
ion, we find that there is but little
fellowship of feeling, and you will
scarcely find one man but what be
lieves his next door neighbor would
cheat him if lie gets a chance. Igno
rgin wo might say, after all the
mighty army of brotherhoods, ignoring
the golden rule that should be.found in
every man’s heait of hearts, like “ap
ples ol gold in pictures of silver,” “Do
unto others as you would that
othei'3 should do unto you.”
This is a part of the dark pict
ure, and only a part of it, and
I would to God to-day, that I could
roll hack the dark scroll from our
country’s escutheon that hangs there
with its pall-like presence, yet threat
ening this people's prosperity, and
that 1 could write upon its folded page
the words that were written upon the
wall of .the mansion of the doomed
king Belshazzar, “menk, mene, tekel,
Upiiarsin !”—it is divided, it is weighed
in the balance and found wanting, it is
finished.
But let us look up. Let us try the
bright side. The old philosophers
used to look into the heavens to des
cry signs. They watched the stars and
the moon, aud there read alike the des
tinies of nations and of individuals—
there they read of events that be
longed only to the yet to come, some
clouded by the dark shadow of resist
less fate, and soino bright with coming
glory and joy, as the bow of promise,
or the smile of a cherub.
‘We toad of an old fellow who fell in
a ditch while star-gazing. Now we
hope that none here will go that far
with it. I say to you here to-day that
the signs in the heavens augur good.
We compare the past with the present
j anil we find that we are really no bet
! ter off than we were when the war
closed, financially, only that wo have
more experience, which reminds me of
a story I once heard on a Dutchman :
Mr. Smit, I docs go into pardnership
mid a friend down next street. Don’t
you hear pout it!
No, llaus. How is that?
Veil, he poots in de money, and I
poots in de hexpericnce. Next Christ
mas I vill have do money and he vill
have de hexperienee. How is dat, hah !
Wc have the experience of the
past and somebody else has the money.
It stands us in hand to make the most
of it. Well, what have we teamed.
Bob Toombs says that figures will lie,
let other people say what they will.
They have lieil to hundreds and hun
dreds of planters since the war; but I
am not prepared to say whether it was
the fault of tin* figures or the fault of
the planters, if am inclined to think
that the planter is the one to blame.
Men have tried to drill themselves in
to the belief that the plan to make
money was by making cotton and buy
ing moat and corn, and everything
else that they needed. This has proved
a lamentable failure. Defeat, chagrin
and disappointment lias been placarded
on the escutcheon of every man’s pros
pects who have tried it. Here is what
the Commissioner of Agriculture of
Georgia has said:
“Since cotton at the present price
docs not pay the cost of production, and
has caused a neglect of the grain crops
that come from the west, instead of our
farms, it is a necessity that wc must
make supplies, and raise stock, and
that the cotton become a secondary and
a surplus crop, instead of being the
principal and all absorbing product.
In fact the time has come when men
must not only become planters, but
farmers. It is only this class of agri
culturists, that have prospered since
the war.”
This has been verified in every farm
that lias adhered to this plan, and ask o l '
the sections hero and there all over
this beautiful South—some of them
as desolate as the sandbars of Flori
da through the blight of the bad polu
oy of cotton planting, and their experi
ence will tell yon, the men who have
made money everywhere as planters,
have been the men who have adopted
the plan of making supplies at home,
aud cotton as a surplus.
A man though a way farin'* fool,
may read this, and yet meu calculate
and calculate, and their figures lie, and
year after year they come out a little
farther behind. But I must not for
get that l am on the bright side.
There i3 something else that the
people have learned, but they have
not learned it well enough. Mercan
tile fertilizers, as a general thing, have
done harm. I have not much to say
upon this subject. It needs but little
to be said when you calculate the cost
ot hauling from depot, the cost per
ton after all expenses have been paid,
which is never less than fifty dollars
if it is a standard manure, (oftentimes
finding by its results, or its non-re
sults, that it is worthless,) and then
calculate how much valuable homo
compost could bo made by fifty do!-;
lars worth of labor, which would per
manently build up your lands from
year to year, and there is no further
argument necessary to prove the posi
tion that commercial fertilizers have
done harm and ought, as a general
rule, to be abandoned. But tnen say
they can’t afford to make manures at
home. It takes too much time. You
must afford it. You are learning to af
ford it, for it is pressing the necessity
upon you.
You are learning to make more i
grain, to plant more oat3 97 per
cent of the farmers in Geo-gia planted |
an increase i area in small grain last
Fall, aud it is weil they did, for last
year there was 25 per cent lass than
the necessary supply of corn mile.
Just think of it. One fourth to bo sup
plied from abroad and paid for out
of a miserable profitless crop of cot
ton.
The sequel is plain. The people are
learning bettor, and I consider the
fact that they are learning better and
doing better a significant l'act. It is a
bright May day morning overlooking
the agricultural arena of the State,
as well as tUo whole South, and bath
ing in the glad sunlight of plenty,
prosperity, aud new life, the land that
we love so well. Let the glad re
frain ring its harvest anthems out over
bill and dale till the echoes take them
up and give out a joyous response that
will reach from one extreme of the
country to the other, and with the
providence of God the 25 per cent gap
will be filled up and the people will
cease to pour their coffers in the open
lap of an expecting \Ve3t. It is neces
sary that you do club together and work
together and let there be unity of pur
pose as well as action. There are
many reforms needed that should de
mand your attention. Go about them
candidly and earnestly and accom
plish wlnvt you commence.
Speaking of reforms, what are you
going to do with the dogs—the num
berless troops of dogs of every variety,
shape, size, breed,, and complexion,
with every other freedtnan on your place
looking to see if anybody has another
purp to spare? The fact is just this,
the supply is not equal to the demand,
and both are increasing at a fearfully
*tapid rate. I don’t know what you all
think about it but my opinion is that
wo must get rid of them in some way
or other. [Voice in the audience] “Give
’hem strichnine !” Well, by that way,
or otherwise, the necessity is pressing
itself upon us.
Not wishing to tire the audience I
will just oay further that the pursuit of
'agriculture is a noble and a grand one.
No young man should be ashamed of
it, for it is elevating ir. the highest
J sense. The ladies have done much to
ward bringing it up to a proud and high
standard. It promises more to young
men than a groat many professional
occupations that they frequently cling
to with a vain hope of the little honor
and the less income sometimes attain
ed, keeping them too often in perplex
ing and protracted poverty, because
| they arc ashamed of the farm and not
| fit for the profession. Go at it, young
! man, and stick to and learn something
; about it and it will be the making of yon
I am told that you have a Sun]
day School hare. I have but to say
| that I am not only in sympathy with
you in this good r.fovement—this re
ligious school where young
minds are moulded for heaven, and
ma le to resist the passions that assail
them in so many tempting forms, but
whenever there is a man or woman
that feels for the welfare of this country
and tiie lasting good of the young,
they are and must be in sympathy with
you. It. may seem to some to be insig
nificant in its operations,'but so far is
it from being insignificant that it
reaches in its importance, from the
earth to the sky, and while we com
mend and praise and appreciate, angels
whisper of love and admiration an 1
smile in approval of the good work.
“Kind words can never die, never die.”
The influences of this School, if-prop
erly conducted, will never die, never
die. Children that are bore to-day will
per imps live to be old meu an 1 women,
and their locks that are now tinged
with the mellow sunlight of youth, and
whose eyes are bright with the lustre
of joy, will be changed by age, an and
their eyes will grow dull, their stops will
be unsteady, and the snows of years
will cluster about their temples, yet
impressions fixed on their young hearts
will grow with the growing years more
fixed and indelible a. Saviour’s love
eustarnped there, and it will light their
the night of death up to
tle blest rea'n: • of eternal day. And
of the office of teachers: Let me tell
you of ail the titled appendages to of
fice ; I can conceive of none that are
so honorable and withal so responsible. .
None carries with them such a labor of*
love, none promises in the far off bright
future, such a glittering diadem e the
crowned reward of duty and devotion
that will wreathe your brows in eternal
glory. Let it. be your ambition, Super
intendent and teachers, to vie with each
other in this blessed work, as to who
will win for his or her coronet, the
greatest number of stars. Allow me to
say Urn I am an bumble teacher and
if there is one duty and one service that
i a dearer to my heart than another it is
tins. \Y r e arc not placed here for self
ish purposes; every one should try to
do some good—to lighten somebody’s
burden; to point out a path that leads
upwards, for all her ways are ways of
pleasantness, and all her paths are
paths of peace. Continually struggle
to keep alive in your hearts the light of
i a divine love, and in the darkest hours
|it will illuminate your beings with a
| pure ineffable joy that no adversity
can dim o>- cause to cease to glow on
j earth, and that will burn the brighter
j throughout the ever unnumbered years
|eternity.
THE STORY 01 A RAILROAD
KISS.
Croker vs. Noth we stern railroad com
pany, in thirty-six Wisconsin, it is hel l
that it is unlawful for a railroad corpo
ration to kiss a female passenger against
her will. The plaintiff was a school
teacher, about twenty years of age.
Being the only passenger in the car.
ihe conductor natural)' supposing that
she would be lonely, sat down by her
aud engaged in conversation. The
rest of the affair she thus narrates:
He said, “I suppose you are married,
like all the rest of the school inarms?” j
1 said, “No I am not.” Then he sat
up nearer to me, and put his bond in
my muff, and said : “There i3 room for
two hands in this muff ain’t there?’ I
said ; “No, sir ; there is not for yours,’’
aud jerked my muff away. He then
said : “My hand is pretty dirty, ain’t
it? L looks as though it needed wash
ing.”
1 told him to wash them, as water
was plenty. Ho then said. It’s thaw
ing considerable, that’s so.” I had the
tassel of my muff in my hand tossing
it and he said, “Ifyou don’t stop that
you’ll wear it out” I said, “1 don’t
care if l do” lie then said, What
makes you look so cross?” 1 didn’t
answer him but turned away. Pretty I
soon he got up and I supposed he was
going away.. He stepped to the side of
my chair, threw his arms around mo and ’
held me down. I said, “Oh ! let mo
go! You will kill me !" He said, “l
am not going to hurt you.” Thou l
said, “What have I ever dona to you
that you should treat me in this way?”
After he had kissed mo five or six times
he said,” Look me in the eye and tell
me if yon are mad.” I said,” Ye3,l
am mad,”
And she was, for she sued his em
ployers and got SI,OOO damages.
A negro insisted that his race wa3
mentioned in the Biblo. He sal 1 13
heard the preacher read abo’ut him.
“Nigger Comas” wanted t. pe bom
agin.
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