Republican Herald

Independence of the farmer. - The merchant or manufacturer may be robbed of the reward of his labor, by the changes of the foreign or domestic market, entirely beyond his control, and may wind up a year, in which he had done everything which intelligence and industry could do to ensure success, not only without profit, but with an actual diminution of capital. - The strong arm of mechanic industry may be enfeebled or paralyzed by the prostration of those manufacturing or commercial interests to whose existence it so essentially depends. But what has the intelligent and industrious farmer to fear? His capital is invested in the solid ground, he draws on a fund which from time immemorial, has never failed to honor all just demands; his profits may be diminished indeed but never wholly suspended: his success depends on no mere earthly guarantee, but on the assurance of that great and beneficent Being who has declared that while the earth endureth, seed time and harvest shall not cease.