INDIANA FARMER.
Vol. VII.] INDIANAPOLIS, IND., OCT., 1858.
[No. VII.
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VOL. VII.—13,
The Needs of American Agriculture.
AN ADDRESS
At the Fayette  County Agricultural Fair,  Connersville, Ind., Sept; 8,  1858,
BY HORACE GREELEY.
Mr. President and Friends: I consider the preparation of an Agricultural
Address by one whose every day life is
not that of a practical farmer, the most
discouraging task ever undertaken by
man. It must be begun and prosecuted
to completion on full view of the fact
that those who are to be won, if possible,
to listen to the whole or some part of it,
are inflexibly rooted and grounded in
two primary convictions ; first, they have
little or nothing to learn on the subject;
and, secondly, that, even if they could
be taught, he cannot teach them. He is
aware that he was invited to speak, not
because he was supposed capable of imparting any useful information—that, if
that had been the object, a very different
sort of a person would have been applied
to—but because he is either a pliant lawyer, known to possess a glib facility for
talking, talking on any subject, whether
he knows anything or nothing about it;
in a way to please a crowd; or else he
has somehow acquired a notoriety that
will help create an interest and a buzz
throughout the adjacent country, and
thus draw dimes into the Sooiety's not
usually overburdened treasury. He is
in fact some fancy zebra or mustang
which the enterprise of the managers
has hired to increase, if it may be, the
attractions and profit of the show. I
have been a good many times invited to
speak at these gatherings; but I cannot
recollect that one of these invitations
urged as a reason why I should accept
that I could probably say something that