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together and inaugurating this useful, instructive exhibition. The spirit 

 which has animated them is worthy of the stern and enterprising people 

 of which they are composed, and we say go on in the good work and you 

 will bring immigration to our shores, and build up a happy and prosperous 

 people in the golden land of your adoption. If Ave are to judge the future 

 by the past, a proud destiny awaits us. That destiny is in our hands. 

 What we resolve, it shall be. From the evidences before me — the interest 

 manifested in this exhibition, the intelligent, beaming countenances of the 

 men, the cheerful appearing smiles of the ladies, I am content to leave 

 that destiny in your hands, and thanking you for your kind forbearance 

 and attention, I will commend it to your keeping. 



