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usefulness and beauty, as dewy morn ascending the east, suffuses the 

 cartli and skies with rosy light, and betokens the coming of the ineff- 

 able glories of perfect day. So knowledge in tlie arts and sciences 

 sees but darkly; yet is so far advanced as to ])erceivo the morning 

 tints of the perfect light of coming day. This is cause of most 

 cordial congratulation to all whose aspirations delight in noble and 

 more exalted achievements — in progress. For there is no higher 

 degree of happiness known to mortal than is afforded by a con- 

 sciousnessof continual progress towards perfection in all that is good. 



The designated l)ounds of a specialty are nominal — not real. A 

 specialty is but a fuller development of some peculiar property of 

 one or more elements of a whole. The agricultural, mechanical, and 

 commercial industries, the arts, trades, and professions so run into 

 each other by insensible gradations; are so blended that each is a 

 component part ot each of the others, is devoid of absolute identity, 

 or like heat, light, motion, and electricity, each is the cause, and each 

 is the effect of the other's existence. Thus, were the industry of 

 mechanics setup for itself, it would fall for the want of agriculture 

 to supply it with food; of commerce to furnish material forlts wai'es; 

 of the arts, sciences, and trades to produce its chemicals to design, 

 proportion, and draw, and fashion its works; and of the professions to 

 protect its legal rights to care for its sick and to minister to its crafts- 

 men for their moral and spiritual good. Nor could agriculture, nor 

 commerce, nor any other occupation, setting up for itself, succeed bet- 

 ter without the cooperation of the various other industries, trades, and 

 professions. The only elements foreign to progress are ignorance and 

 idleness. 



As the innumerable colors from the retiring tint of violet to the 

 most aggressive hue of red, whether seen in the painted flower that 

 lures the bee ; or in the divers and diverse flowers of nature's studio ; 

 or in the rich fields of verdure, and in the fields of purple and golden 

 harvest; or in the foliage of the forest; or in the bloom of health 

 and beauty on the cheek of youth ; or in the subdued luster of gold; 

 or in the divine fire of the intelligent eye ; or in the glorious stars 

 and stripes that wave over and protect us ; or "in the bow of promise 

 of the cloud," are all contained in every pencil of light of the sun, 

 so all the arts, sciences, and occupations developed in proper propor- 

 tion, and to the full extent of their energies, are contained in every 

 pencil of progress. 



Farmers of California! Sovereign peers of a peerless Republic! 

 Are ye for progress ? The magnitude of your calling, the responsi- 

 bilities of your present, and the possibilities of your "future, demand 

 it. The spirit and the requirements of the age demand it. 



