Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1858 — Farmers. [ARTICLE]

Farmers.

Adain was a farmer, while yet*in Paradise, aad, alter his fall, commanded to earn his bread by tfee sweat of his brow. Job, the honest, and, upright, and-patient, was a farmer, and his endurance lias passed into a -proverb. Socrates was a firmer, and yet .wedded to.lns calling, the glory of his immortal philosophy. St. Luke was a farmer. And divides with Prometheus the honor of subjecting the ox for the use of man. Cincinnatus was a farmer, and the noblest of them all. Burns was a farmer, and the muse found” him at the plow, and filled his soul with poetry.. Washington-was a farmer, and retired from the higjhesf earthly station to enjoy the quiet of rujraj life, and present to the world a spectacle of human greatness. To these may be added a host ot others who sought peucle and repose in the cultivation ot their mother earth; the enthusiastic Lafayette, the steadfast Picker--ng, the scholastic Jeftersoti, tie fiery Randolph, all found an El Dorado of consolation in the verdant lawns that surrounded their homesteads.