The Greensborough patriot [February 28, 1852]

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VOLUME XIII. GREENSBOROUGtt, N. C, FEBRUARY 28, 1852. WHOLE NO. 667.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
IT SWUM AND SHERWOOD.
Price $3.ft0 ■ year s
»R TUMI BOIUU, ir HOT HID WITHIH 0K« MONTH
arm THE DAT« or THE a)MUtlM>.
ADVERTISING RATES.
One dollar per square (fifteen lines) for the fit.t
week, and twenty-five cent, for every week there-after.
Deductions made in favor of standing adver-iaeraenU
as follows:
Thru month.
One square, S3.50
Two squares, 7.0©
Three " (Jeol.) 10.00
Hall column, 18.00
Six montki. Oniytar
SS.SO S«.00
10.00 14.00
15.00 20.00
25.00 35.00
" In the sweat of thy face shall thou eat bread."
Addreaa of Ralph Oorrell, Esq.,
To the Farmer! of Guilford, Feb. 10, 1852.
GlKTLEMEM :
It affords me unfeigned pleasure
to meel here to-day so large a number of the far-men
of our county ; the tillers of the soil and the
and the owner, of the land they till. And the
very fact of the meeting together of so large an
assemblage in a common cause and to promote
a common interest, affords no unmeaning earnest
of improvement in that pursuit in which we are
tl,e signs of promise and big with hope is about
to arise and ahine upon us. A plank road load-ing
to the principal market town for our county
has been already constructed almost to our bor-der*.
We are officially informed that the im-provement!
in the navigation of the Cape Fear
and Deep River are in a flattering elate of ad-vancement,
and in-a twelvemonth will be com-pleted,
when the silence of their scenery will be
broken by the puffing of steam and the echo of
their hills awakened by the boatman's bugle,
and when the waters which run from our springs
and brooks will float off to a market within our
own Slate the produce of the fields which lie up-on
their margins. Already the sound of the
shovel, the pick and the mason's hammer are
heard upon the line of the great North Carolina
Rail Road. The hills are sinking down and the
vallies are being exalted, preparing the way for
the matchless power of steam and opening the
gales to the markets of the world ; and in a few
years, if out sanguine hopes are realized, that far
famed horse, whose ribs are iron, whose food is
fire, which outstrips the eagle in speed and sur-passes
the giant in strength, will be oarcering
through the very heart of our county wilh crowd-ed
trains and groaning cars lumbering at his
heels.
Wilh such bright and flattering prospects be-foie
us, it becomes us as wise men to enquire
whether we are in a condition lo realise all the
promised lienefus resulting from ihrse cheapened
accelerated facilities ol transportation !—whelh
all engsged and all so deeply interested We j _ ^^ ^ „„
have been told in time, past of the age of gold. , ^ ^^ ^ ^ |(^
the age of bronze, and the age oflroa, I his may ' *T. ... •—~ .
' .... , ■ ■ I vacua*, boats and ear. which will soon be at
emphatically be called the age of association. |
Men associate together to construct rail roads and
performed twenty year, ago, it would have been
one of the wisest expenditures of time end labor
that could have been made. Let no one be de-terred
from the performance of this useful labor,
under the impression that a great amount of
money and skill will be required to effect it. A
rafter level, a plough and a hoe arc all the imsj
plements required ; and almoit every inlelligfl
farmer wilh a little practice, can soon acquire by
experience all the skill required in the operation.
The first and the most important point is not to
make the ditches too long, so as to become over
charged wilh water in heavy falls of rain belore
they can empty themselves. With the level the
course of the ditch is marked out, allowing
from one to two inches fall to every ten or twelve
feet, according as the surlsce is more or less
broken. A few furrows are deeply drawn on
the level of the ditch thus marked out with a
large two horse plough, snd the dirt then riked
out with the hoe on the lower side of the fur-rows,
and the work of insurance is done. The
deatruclive old method of ploughing up and
down hill has to cease, and horizontal ploughing,
parallel to the ditches, has to take its place ;
and the soil and manure remains in the situation
where it is wanted for use, instead of being
washed down the branch or creek to be wasted,
or lo enrich the low grounds of some other per-son,
RESTING THE SOIL.
The soil being tu.us secured from destruction
by washing rains, is put into a favorable condi-tion
for progressive improvement, in the course
ol which periodical rest is equally as important
plank roads: to build up manufacmriug and ban-king
institutions,, and lo improve the navigation
of rivers. The physicians are associating to im-prove
the science and practice of their profession.
of every case, where the armour of learning is
polished and the fires of intellect arc kindled.
Those large and cosily manufacturing estab-lishments
which work up the raw material ol
the country into a thousand textures of furniture
as prudent culture. Tho necessity of rest to
our command ! And if noi, what are ourmeans I cultivated land, until wilhin a lew years past,
and capabilities for production if wisely used has been entirely overlooked. And allhough it
and properly developed ! Nature has denied us ■ has been introduced by some of our besi farmers
a larg, stream affording the propelling power for : in their systems ol improvement, yel it is belicv-cxlensive
inaiiiifat'iuring establishments. We ed that nine tenths of the arable land in out
have no coal, no iron, no la'je quarries of lime- [ county is kepi under crop from year to )ear,
it has any capacity of production,
pursuits and cause a diversion irorn agn- i «•■*■ we ourselves become weary, we lie down
euliural labor. Hut we have a territory, well' and rest. We lei our servants rest, and rest
watered by numerous fertilizing streams, consli- our horses, mules and oxen. And the night and
luiing lite head branches of the Cape Fear ; a soil | the Sabbath have been given us by our wise and
common in our country, upon analysis shows
the following ingredients:
Silica, . , 45.(10
Alumina, . . 12.18
Lime. . . 13.83
Magnesia, . 18 70
Protoxide of iron, 7.32
Oxide of magnesia, . .22
Most of the other rock upon analySr .how some
of the same constituents.
Now what I want to call to your attention is
that silica, potash, soda, magnesia, lime and the
oxdie ol iron, enter into the composition of the
stalk and grain ol all our cultivated crops, in dif-ferent
combinations and quantities. Bearing
this in mind, let us examine what are the con-stituent
elements of wheat, which has been pro-perly
called tho bread plant ol the world, which
is produced in almost every country, and in the
successful growth of which our own counly is
so deeply interested. The Ibllowing table shows
the average result of sixty analyses of the ash
of wheat mado by a competent professor, for the
Roy a! Agricultural Society of England:
Silica, . . 2 28
Phosphoric acid, 45.73
Sulphuric acid, . .32
Lime, . 2.08
Magnesia, . 10.04
Per oxide of iron, 2.04
Potash, . . 32.24
Soda, 4.00
Chloride of sodium, 37
Now here is ihe silica, the lime, the potash,
the magnesia, the soda, and the rust of iron,
which are found in the rocks oul of which the
soil is formed, which produced the wheat. By
- . , . i nave lit, »ii.,,» in* iii.ii, ii". ... _*■ .J....I . ..-= an ....... . L..H... r •>* Law vcrs are ncccsiarty associated in court hou-; ... *._.. ,, ,r ■ •. i
"'I'" ■'* —-- ' stone, the working of wht.-h would afford variety ' as long as
sei and taverns during! terra ,lime „in. ev. ery' vea.r., ' io our d,.iversion from iI _W..h»n wc i
and come in competition and conllict in me trial
and dress, and inio as many useful implements
once rich and productive, and which has capaci-ties
of improvement equal to our warmest hopes,
well adapted lo ihe growth of tohaeco, com and
beneficent Creator that our wearied and exhaus-ted
animal powers may he rrsiored by necessary
resl. But we seem lo imagine that our fields re-bas
lo encounter in our climate in the cultivation going to do. Let ihe work be chalked out ke-of
this indispensable plant. The succeeding Fall forehand, and then choose the best maa lo dq It.
and Spring of 1854 Ihe field is sowed in n.eJ > "> ■ "»^™1 of the J.ck«n .lamp, but I ii.t
' , , , ., ,' no Abolitionist. I always went for Jsekson, snd
int
d
always go for suecesnra as long as they fol-low
in his footsteps. I always went for Vaa
Buren as long as ho followed in Jackson's foot-steps
| but when he turned Abolition I dont go
for him no more, nor his son John neither.
Bill Johnson. Squire, I wish yon lo put ray
queslion, to choose Major Jaek Dowulnf lo Bal-timore.
If we cant trust him as a good Jaekson
Democrat, there isn't a man in ihe United Slate,
thai we can trust. He was always the old Gtn-eral's
right hand man. And as for Abolition iraps,
I wish Mr. Jones's store was is free from rura-
Irsps and gin-traps as I am from Abolition
traps
Solomon Jams. Mr. Chairman, I call tho
gentleman to order. I want lo know, before he
goes any further, whether this is a Temperanco
or a Democratic meeting?
Bill Johnson. Ii is is much of i Temperanco
meeting as it is an Abolition meeting. If Mr.
Jones brings in Abolition, Pre jest as good a
right to bring in Temperance. And as for traps,
sir, if the gentleman undertakes to talk about
Abolition Iraps, I'll jest let him know the war
can be carried into Africa. Yes, sir, the boot is
decidedly on 'toihor legsa^The iraps is all on
tothersidc, sir; all on ihe slavery tide. I'm a
good Jackson Democrat, hot I've nd notion of
being kelchcd in a slavery nap. And that's
why I want to send a Delegate to llaltimose
that wo con depend upon, snch as Major Down-ing,
one that'll keep us out of ihe slavery trap.
For I tell you, sir, the South has got the slavery-oata
and clover, and the soil remains untouched
by the ploughshare until the Fall of 1856. a peri-od
of two years snd a half, when it is again bro-ken
up and sowed in wheat. By this system
the ground is plowed only sevon limes in five
years; whereas by the old one of alternation of
corn and small grain in successive crops, it re-ceives
thirteen ploughings in the same spaco of
time. By tho former in fifty years, it is plough-ed
seventy times, by the latter 130. By the
former, if commenced in time, without a particle
of manure carried upon the field, it will still bo
in good heart and productive at the end of thai
period ; by the latter, exhaustless and worthless
as all past experienco goes to show. The
wisdom of tho Creator has wisely ordered the
animal economy in such a way that many things
which arc offensive to one animal, are the choice
and favorite food of others, in order that the wants
of all may be supplied, and the multiplied and
infinitely varied fruits of the earth may fill their
intended place in the scale of existence. The
same order of things exists in the vegetable econ-omy.
Allhough carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and
hydrogen arc component bodies of all planis,and
although silica, lime, potashf soda, magnesia and
oxide of iron enter into the growth of all our
cultivated crops, yet they do not all require equal
quantities, and some of them from using a leu j "»P 'el all ever the country, and covered wilh a
quantity ihJPolhen, and from the fact of deriving I «ood "W p'ece" "''[? lemPlin* D»'«- There'.
a .large 'supp«ij of,n,utriment,ffrom ,thLe a,tmo.phkeie°, | a bit of nice-flavored Buchanan hail here, and a Blrnng Ca„ ^ |||ero lr(| , ,,„,, Do(jg|ig W|
are properly called meliorating crops. By » | further along, and a fat Houston bait out yonder,
slavery man.
Doctor Briggs. Mr. Chairman, it seems to
me neighbor Johnston ha. got hold of the hot
end of the poker, after all, and has lairly got to
stirring the Presidency with it, whether we will
and tools indispensable to our comforts anil cm
ploymcnl—those magnificent floating palaces,
which plough the deep, selling wind and tide at,
defiance, whose holds are richly laden with the
commerce of ihe world, and whose splendid sa-loons
are thronged with passengers floating over
the billows wilh as much ease and eomfori as
their own parlors and firesides rould i.fford—
those long lines of rail road wilh which many
pans of our country are intersected, ihreading
the valleys and scaling the mountains, where the
iron horse displays his magic powers of strength
and speed—those wondrous wires extending
over Ihe land and under the sea, upon which
thought anil intelligence may be sent wilh the ra-pidity
of the lightning's flash, are all ihe glorious
result, of the association ol mind anil money.
And why should not agriculturists who are enga-ged
in the first, the eoniinued, and ihe noblest
employment of man associate for the purpose of
the improvement and advancement of that pu'suit
which is the supporting pillar of every trade pro-
V?
ihe cereel grains, the raising of stock, the growth quire no rest—that they have the powers of per-lession
and calling ol civilized society
It is an old sav ing that " when things gel to
their worst they will mend." And if there is a-ny
truth in the adage, we may begin lo look for
improvement, for it is very ecriain that tho farm-ing
interesl of our county cnnoi gel much worse.
Our distance Ironi market, our want of roads and
other facilities of transportation, the consuming
cost of carrying off what surplus we raise, and
our want of a staple which we cannot consume
on the j-.'/juialion, have long exercised a ruinous
effect upon our agricultural prosperity ; and will
continue to do so until an adequate and effectual
remedy is provided for these blasting evils. The
most intelligent portion of our population has
long been aware of thi. unfortunate .laic of things.
And whilst one class of our people have been lor
years struggling to remove these disadvaniagcs.
and have been patiently wailing and boring lor a
belter day, another class have thought it easier
and cheaper to run away from them and seek o-ther
locaiions in more favored and prosperous nrnvrnieni is lo
Stales: whil.l another and still larger class i which has been
of wool and ihe productions of ihe dairy. And
il wilh ihese large and varied capacities of pro-du'iton
and wealth, wilh them improved and
cheapened facilities of transportation which are
held forth to our reasonable hopes, we do not
wake up to a spirit of enlightened nud eneri/ciic
improvement, we may expect lo do what the
Cherokee who was once lord of these h'lls had
to do, retire before a more intelligent and manly
race. This is oature's law and il must and will
be obeyed.
ANALYSIS OF SOILS.
An intelligent physician when he is called to
the bed side of his paiieni lirsl seeks to ascertain
Ihe nature and character of the disease under
which he is lahoiing. And if ihe disease is iiiis>
taken the remedies administered ufteiitimes ag-gravate
the disorder instead of relieving il. Pru-dence
would MggWt that ihe same course ought
lobe adopted bv every person who enters upon
the improvemeni of hi, land. Ho ought lo know
what constitutes the soil he tills, in what elements
of leriilnj il abounds, in what il is deficieiil, so thai
he may be enabled to withhold those ingredients
which are tlratdj sufficiently abundant and Hip.
p|) ihcm when wauling. This ran be done only
bv iinalvsis. a highly important useful operation
which 1 suppose none of us could under Ihe pre-sent
stale of things have performed, for the rea-son
that there is no suitable apparatus for the
analvsis of soils wilhin the county. I was pleas-ed
lo hear only a lew days ago that this desidera-tum
would soon be supplied by a highly intelli-gent
and scientific gentleman of our town.
And when the Geologist who has been appoint-ed
lo make a turvey of our Slate, underlie pro-visions
of an act of our last Assent';,',}-, shall ap-pear
among us, it will afford, an opportunity to
man) of our farmers of gaining the important
advantage ol an analysis ul their soils.
HILLSIDE DITCIIIN'O.
Another important step in the path of our im-
Slav the hand of destruction
o long and so busily at work.
pelual endurance. And their capacity for pro
duction i. taxed from year In year, and from gen-eration
to generation, until Story panicle of fer-tility
both mineral and vegetable, is exiraeted, j
when ihev are allowed to rest in death, covered
with a melancholy shroud of sedge, and soon lo
have their funeral requiems sung by the Wailing
pine.
But the quesiion may be asked, why should
land resl ! Il has neither muscle, sinew, nor
hune to become weary as an annual has. Look
abroad over ihe whole lace of our country and
sec the large number of •• old fields " exhausted
and turned out of cultivation, deformed with gui-levs
and tnanileil with sedge. See how many
more are not half paying for the labor annually
bestowed upon them, and you will see there is a
• ouioru M, »•* »n, ling its lerltlily
are daily' lakiog ,money . from our *purse, and put- balancing accounts lor the crops which have been
ting none in, they will soon become emptv. , , , .
„ • . „ ,, . , . . . harvested and removed.
Bv letting our fields resl a portion ol their nme _ , ,
. - . , , , t [7b be continued. 1
we not only afford an opportunity for the decom- u *
position of rock,, creating a fresh supply ol ruin-1 —- ---- of „„ - s„ ,„ , ,,,,,_ „„„ „„. q,„ ,.
eral food, hut grass and weeds and vegetation „l Demooartio Convention in Downing- tilin llf lhe pr„„|rncy Rnl wen), ,„ be carried
vHie> . without being put lo vole. Now. sir. 1 am glad
IN THE .TATE of MAINE. j |„ ,re lhai Mr. Jones and Mr. Johnson agree ei-
To cliooie a Delegate lo the llallimore Conven- nelly in one thing, however wide apart they may
lion, und detidc on the Presidency. i be on oilier points. That is. thai they wont n.i-
—— iher of'em move a .lep in the dark, nor.lir an
Di WNiNcviLi.K, STATE OF MAINE, ) i inch till they know where they are going to.
February 0, 1»52. \ ' Mr. Junes wont vote for a Delegate till he know.
The following nniiee was posted up bright and "'" ,nan- ono knows ex(«ily what ihat Delegato
early fererthy morning, on the ineeiiti house, is going lo do. And Mr. Johnson wont vole for
and'on ihe centra school-house, and on Bill » president nil he know. hi. man, and know.
Johnson's siore: i "*'' a;l "t!1" *nli " "I no slavery man.
Solomon Jones Nor I wonl vole for no Prcs-
* NoT,cr.-n»ioc«AT, AaovsE! I „„,„, „„ , know ,,„,, ,„ rf „,_ om],, „,, n0 Abo.
" The I'emocraift ot PowniiigviUe. vtlhout dts- liiimiim
Itngth of lime land ought to MM ewn nun must Wf(()f|, <-wr,„ ari, r(.queftlei| a, meet al the centre /(1,, ' n(,.Mll .. r. .,_ „„ , mtma
■eiermine for himself, g ,1 by .he siaie of ex- ouse?o-„,orJv evening. Kebruar, at , ^^V^L^^nZllJlJ^Z.
ih0trt-nl kinil« «j-r.iiK linih. uhi«li BliieUi ihf soil
(rum the hot i;i\ •- nf the sun in summer, anil up-on
their (lernmnimition return a coat uMpriiiizing
matter lo the earth, which in ill turn heroines
the food of plants, and \ielusa handsome in- I
crease in the succeeding crops. But when com- ;
biued with the practice ol sow ing down [BgflW,
when the ...nd goestoicsl, mu.-h grcsti-r and
more important benefits refull, as I shall attempt
to show in a >IJ!--. in- n: part of this addresn,
when discussing the subject ol manures. What :
huustion of his (aim, and its lenib-ncv io |ID<! up
in noxious weeds «nd plunis. Dut il on«. ', lo
be taken as a -fixed fad" that no uplands are
too good to rest. 1 once beard aver) luielligeni
farmer of Or.inge, the hie .Micbiel Holt, Ksq.,
say, it he was the owner of only forty aeres ol
laud one fourth of il should rest every year, and
fex- M-hool-fiou.-e to-morrow evening, February 9, all
o'clock, to M-ttle tbu (pMMOU1 about tho next i'resi-
ODCy, and VIIOOM) a Delegate to the b\ihimore " a lnI of WHM >« a mind lo go and help Cuba
gel her independence, I say 1 donl want a Presi-dent
thaTIS be dogging after 'tin and stopping of
Convention. The country eipWUeTery Democrat
to do hir. 'u'.y, and the whole Democracy of all
parlies is especially iMMIttd to attend. "The iu-lerwt
ol the couury and the Democratic party i* at
Make. Therelore OOHM one, come all. And il i*
expected that every true Democrat will leave all
party prejudice!* at home.
"BTOBIDSKOI'IHE DLMOCRATK• TOWX COMMITTEK."
that in a given space of time, he would make I pPuarrsMuatMnt ,0 ,|IP :ihnvC nonce, the largest and
crying nc.-cssiiy for resl. Ihe generation ol ( mon off |>f |lf |haf| ,(js neignbor who Wljlihj crup mogl rCspecjah|e Democratic meeting ewr held
first settlers has fast passed away. ->',rl>a|>* j a |,kc quantity every year. The system I have in Downingville assembled at 7 o'clock, and
some few are still living, who felled ihe first
stick of timber on the farms upon which they re-side
; snd yei in this short space of lime, in ihe
age of a nation, our counly has put on the visage
u/*old age and decrepitude; 'whilst in our father-land,
farms which were in cultivation in ihe lime
of William the Conqueror, are now more ferule
and productive than they were when ihe sturdy
Saxon and lordly Norman crossed lances al
cm.
Surgent Joel Downing. For my part, Mr.
Chairman, I've made up my mind nut to voto
for any man for President that wont go for Kos-sulh,
clear up lo the hub, and sland ready to
:.■!.: the Hussian Hear if be meddles wilh Hun-gary.
1 say freedom is ihe righi of ersry body,
and I go for il; and I want a President that'll go
fur it, too, up lo fifiy-fnur forty and fight, if it
adopted for m«.ell. is ihe five field slnfi. three of filled ihe sehool-hoiise ehoek full. In„', be gol wiilmul. I call thai good .l.ckson
whieh produce a crop every year, and the other , , J?,l"'a D°""»»e< '-"I- ' •"•""•nslcr. WJ* doctrine. Old llickorv would go foritifhe »..
,I».eo. irreeaalt rreesstl oorr,„.,. MgraMss ' ! J" ,\U,") JT ""?""","U, 5' fl'""""'"1 '»»'["•»"■ .lira, and the Democracy must see lhal he ha. a } »d Mr. Set,r Stiles, (schoolmaster, was chosen h.„ fur „•„„„. Thal-, lhc f01ln.
have set down with a dogged resolution of endu- I and lo pro em the washing away ol our soil
ranee determined neither lo remove or improve j into the swamps and lowlands, leaving naked
a. long .. ihey can gel bread lo eat and raiment galls and deep gullies with their ugl) faces lo
to put on. Under such a slate of ihmga as this reproach us wilh negligence and wanl ol skill.
decline and deterioration are to be expeeied a. Tin. Ii n> he d by hillside dilche. and deep
naturally as we would look for the rush in mire ] ploughing, to prevent the lormalion of new wash-or
.edge upon an exhau.ted field. And our di-lapidated
buildings, our insufficient inclosures.
our oxhauated and gullied fields, the uiidiiehed
swamps and marshes on our water courses, sen-ding
forth their poisonous breath to blanch the
cheek of their owner, wilh ague and lo destroy
their lives wilh ihe merciless typhoid—ihe large
number of horses, mules and hogs hroughi from
oihor Slates and sold among us,—all go io show
that to look for prosperity and wealth from such
a slate of things would be as unreasonable as lo
expect to " gather grape, ol thorns or tigs ol
thistle.."
But it is hoped that this dark and cheerless
- -■--nnnriency and discontent is about to
night ou.., J— «ll»«l wilh
close forever ; .nd lhat a brignt u., -«■■
es. and by tilling up Ihe old one. wilh brush,
corn sialks, or oilier liter, and sowing in £rass
seed. Every lanuer who cultivate, a hilly and
rolling larm. as most of our plantations in this
couuty are. ouglii 10 have il properly trenched
with hillside dlli-hes, as the lirsl work requiring
Ins attention, a work the perlonnaiiee ol which
will bring a sure mid speedy rewaid. and ihe
neglect of which will inlliei a moat certain pun-ishment.
How few plantations do we sec in our
country, wilh these safely pipe, conveying off
the surplus water from the fields and landing it
as harmlessly in lhc neighboring brook a. the
lightning rod conduct, the deadly electricity into
resting land may be shown by a nTocess of reas-oning
as wrll as by observaV.on. Most soils are
formed by ihe tIec>',mpo.iiion of rock and Ihe
decay of aninv.il and vegelahle subslanccs, all of
which conlai'u the essential food of plants. The
rock which mostly abounds in our county is
granite, and I shall take it to illuslralc my idcaas
lhc one besl known and most familiar to us all.
Mineralogists lell us lhat granite is composed of
three other constituent bodies, viz : feldspar,
mica, and silica. The first of these constituents
are again divided into potash, leldspar, and soda
feldspar. An analysis of the lirsl of these, in
one hundred parts, gives,
Silica. . . 03.21
Alumina, . . IB.Ill
Potash, . . Hi-till
And the latter.
Silica, . . 09.00
Alumina, . . IQ.'i'Z
Soda,. . 11.00
Mica, known by the common name of ising-glass,
is divided by mineralogists into three
kinds, viz : potash, mica, magnesia mica, and
lilhea mica. An analysis of the first sort yields
oul of a hundreJ par|s,
Silica, . . 47.S0
Alumina. . . 37 20
Oxide of iron, . 3.10
Oxide of magnesia, .00
I'.na.h, . . 0.00
Ilvdrolluorie. acid,. .60
Water, . . . 2.03
And an analysis of ihe second sort, magnesia
The con, crop is considered as a great exhaus- sccreiary. Uncle Joshua look the eliairatnid ihe
tcrofland, and nol so much so 1 imagine from cheers of the mcclin. lie's always been ehair-
Ihe quantny of fertilizing matter il consumes, as m™ <*** ' ><''»•"•"■'> '>"» »"»> >"»• So he
. , , . , ° . , , knew what he had to depend upon, and come
from the mode of vult.vat.on. A good farmer n?tn4 for j,. Aunt Kesiah had combed bis
would not coi.isider that full justice was done to |iair al| down smooth, and be wore his fur hat
his corn crop, without ploughing over it al least and go-io-mcelin coat. The chairman put on
' the notice calling lhc
Uenilemeu and lellow-
Uasiings for a kingdom. Bat the ncccssuy of fivc limcs ln Uie course of perspiraiion and eulli- his spectacles and read
lid says In
dalion of ihe Democratic principle ; freedom for
every body.
•Sofuvwn Jones. 1'reedom (or every body, is
it! I want M know if the gentleman means freo-dom
for the niggers south of Mason snd Dixon'a
line ? If he does, I pronounce him a bloody Abo-litionist
and no Democrat.
•Sargent Joel. I said freedom for every body,
valion. In many instances six are given. By JTJJJ^ x^^^Ju^^'wvh^e'b^ ! !'nd
1 ™ »|ick '° |1'. You ca"*t «jft a ha,il' \ "»■
toil operation a fresh surface is turned up 10 the ,orc ||S wpn|. ,„ be lo 8eulo lhe (1,K.Mion aboul , ».ody can l spin ha.rs now Mr. talhouii s dead,
acuon of the sun ai.d winds five or six tunes in ,he next Presidency, and chouse a Delegate to *** >ou ra" j "I;'« * principle; ami I say the
i . i- i ii i : „.,. 1. ikaa. U it*« knaaak.. in ikn i.n. touiidalion of lhc Democratic principle is freedom
ammonia and other volatile sallrt which are essen-tial
elements ol fertility. But the evi
slop here. Tiusc same and oilier materials ne- quMtOO.
cessary for the food of plants are filtered oul of ' hairman. If thai is your minds, gentlemen,
ihe soil bv soaking rains in the same manner -
Baltimore, As there is two branches lo the bus-icss,
whicl
Doctor Drill's. I move lhat we take lhc
question of ihe Presidency first, as ih.u comes
does nol .|rfl, jn X\XG nouee, aw} I mke il that is the main
you will pleasi?
Hill Johnson, (in a sharp loud voice.) Hold
•hat ley is dripped Irom an ash-hopper, and wash- M ^^ Squire, or Mr. Chairman, I should say;
ed oaTai.il deposiled where they are not needed, ^ltin pm ,|jat ere quesiion yet, for I've got somc-and
where often limes they become a nuisance, thing lo say first. I donl think that would bo
To remedv this evil, and if no rt.nedy can be U» .'C-l way lo go to work. I've no notion of
iound to lu*i.u.n i.ti' ils cf-leet,s, sh,.oul■d■ .c„cr_.a,t•u.l.y. ube„ taking* hold, ol t.he,rpoker at.,th,e ho, t e,.en,d. .L.et us luunu HJMiu|if »•>» , go to work and choose a Delegate hrst, while we
the desire ot every farmer. And lhe first step Bre coo)| ant| ge, inlo ltie |>rC8idcncy arlerwards.
towards the remedy is to discontinue the severe \v0 arc all quiel and unanimous now, and as it
Democracy lhal
"s second term,
good Old Hickory limes was
coming hack again, and lhe Democracy of the
i iv. ;iit.- uii; nanwi io *" mmsnmjmmwtmmm •••• •»-•-•— »» ti aru till tjtin t HUM UIIJIIIIIIUK' lit
and tyrannical system of cultivation which has is lhc largest meeling ol tho Del
been so long in use, of one year in corn and the we've ever had since Old llickor>"s
aezl in wh. eat and, outs, wilifoul resl or intermis.-it looks as il lhc llicko
sion, and lhe iiitrodueiion of A judicious rotation
of crops in combination wilhdrep ploughing.
I.etus lake lor illustration lhe five field sys-tem.
In lhc Fall of 1851 a fallow which bus
been at resl lor iwo> ears, and which in ordinary
seasons is well c.v.rid »uh a rool of liner and
grass, is sowed in wheal. One good deep
ntooftrinj and IWO lurrowings with a heavy
spiked hanO« are sultieienl. The ground ihen
lies untouched bv lhe plough until the nexl Fall,
183'*.. when u is broken up lor corn at a season
of lhe year when it is not injured bv lhe sun,
and i* grenlly benefiiled by lhe winter frost, the
rounlry will once more be on ils legs. Now, I
say, seeing we've gol into a little clear smooth
water, donl hi us rile it. The nexl Presidency
is a licklish quesiion, and if we begin io stir it,
may he it 'II be bard work lo see bottom. I'herc-lore,
Squire, 1 move lhat we begin our business .
'lolber eend lormosi; and I mo\ e thai we chin.se , shouldg» -IN plain as lhe road to a ni
Major Jack Downing for oui Delegate io Ualu* | a Democratic meeting! And i»re we
President that will carry lhat principle out
straight on all sides, in Hungary am. every where
else. And when we choose our Delegate lo Bal-timore,
I shall move lo give him instructions to
vote for a Kossuih candidate for lhe Presidency.
Solomon Jones. Then, sir, you are an Abo-litionist,
and your candidate will be an Abolition-ist,
and lhc whole South will be agin you ; and
you'll find, if you can't split hairs, you can split
the country, and ihe whole Democracy will be
torn to Hinders, and we shall lose all lhe officea.
Sargent Joel. I don't fight for offices, I fight
for liberty ; freedom for every body ; that's my
molio.
Deacon Snow. 1 feel il my duty, Mr. Chair-man,
lo caution our Democratic brethren not to
lie too rash. I think we oughl (o have a Presi-den;
that will be prudent, and not get us into any
(angling alliances with other nations, and will
carry out the safe neutrality doctrines laid down
by Washit gion.
Doctor BHfgii Mr. Chairman, we seem to
be going all round Kobin Hood's barn, but 1
don't sec as we are any where coming lo the
poinl. Now, sir, it seems to me ihe way we
Is this
Demo-mica,
shows the same consliiueni elements, in best piOHghmeO thai ever emend s held.
dilTerentquaulii.es, wilh ihe vxrepiion thai ihe The MM! M pUlm in the Spring ul I U.bod
the ground. And yel upon every plan'ation wc I hydrofluoric acid is ibOMt, and U per cent, ol the ground is then until mid Meaner neees...rd>
ca.u readily sec, if this useful operation had been ! P.^neeia is preecnl- llornblenu. snolher rock . subjected to that severe MMfMg «MM every eoll
more. 1 crats ? Thai's ihe question. If we ore all Demo-
Lfiainnan. If that is your minds, gentlemen,! crais, then of course we all wanl a Democratic
you will ajoaee lo- ProaldeBtl and we ought lo fix ourselves on that
Solomon Joritu, firadtf at lhe upper corner, point, and nol be looking round lor any other nail
and naleral enemy IO Dili Johnson, trader al the
lower corner.) Mr. Chairman, I hope that mo-iiou
wonl pass. 1 didn't conic here lo he ketch-ed
to hang our hats on. Therefore, I move that we
instruct our Delegate to Batimnore lo vote for a
candidale for President lhat is a simirh Democrat,
in MII Abolition trap, and 1 wool be if I can and in favor ol aft sound Democratic principles.
it l,i il. 1 donl want no underhand work, and I Chairman. Arc vou ready for thai question'
h.n.i i ike a step on the road lill I ear, read on It lhat "is your minds, gentlemen, please
he gu.de-bo.ird win re it's going to. Before wc ; Solomon Jonti. Mr. ('hcerman, I oppose
house n Delegate 1 want In know whal he is lhat motion, aud befo-e it'-* put I wnnt to know