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rough and raw materials directly from our mines and farms, the power- 

 ful machinery and useful inventions of our mechanics, the beautiful and 

 useful fabrics of our manufactures, the rich, delicate, as well as magnifi- 

 cent works of art, are all here, arranged with so much skill and taste as 

 to form a complete and perfect whole. Indeed, the grand display before 

 us is in itself a most magnificent picture, the conception and execution 

 of which gives evidence of a high order of artistic skill. We might 

 .dwell with pleasure and profit upon the special merits of individual 

 exhibitions, but each and every exhibitor is entitled to so much credit 

 that it would be invidious to discriminate. 



There is one feature in this exhibition so particularly striking and so 

 commendable to all the exhibitors, that I cannot refrain from speaking 

 of it in terms of high praise and especial approval. I refer to the spirit 

 of kindness and accommodation so manifest on every hand. However 

 high the rivalry of different exhibitors in the same department may 

 seem, I am satisfied that the same spirit which now obtains will be mani- 

 fested to the close of the fair, and if so, the exhibition must be attended 

 with beneficial results. 



Improvement is the great object of all these industrial exhibitions. 

 To accomplish the greatest good, with the means afforded them, has 

 been and is the aim of the officers and managers of this society. To do 

 even-handed justice between each and every exhibitor is the most ardent 

 wish of every member and officer of the Board; and I now assure you 

 that they will do all they can on their part to conduct the fair to a 

 termination which shall be as satisfactory as its beginning is auspicious; 

 and I know I need not call on those I now address to second their 

 efforts in this respect. Thanking you, each and all, for the exhibitions 

 you have been pleased to make, and particularly for the kind attention 

 with which you have listened to the few remarks I have felt called upon 

 to offer, I will bid you all a cordial good night. 



