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nature, while sound sleep and refreshing breezes have been your 

 portion and your health. 



Envy not the successful statesman. His name may be in every 

 one's mouth. His reputation may be the property of his country ; 

 but envy and detraction have marked him. His plans are thwarted, 

 his principles attacked, his ends misrepresented. And if he attain 

 to the highest station, it is to feel that his power only enables him to 

 make one ungrateful, and hundreds his enemies, for every favor he 

 can bestow. 



Envy no one. The situation of an independent farmer stands 

 among the first, for happiness and virtue. It is the one to which 

 statesmen and warriors have retired, to find, in the contemplation of 

 the works of nature, that serenity which more conspicuous situations 

 could not impart. It is the situation in which God placed his pecu- 

 liar people in the land of Judea, and to which all the laws and insti- 

 tutions of his great lawgiver had immediate reference. And, when 

 in fullness of time, the privileges of the chosen seed, were to be 

 extended to all his children, it was to shepherds, abiding in the 

 fields, that the glad tidings of great joy were first announced. Health 

 of body, serenity of mind and competence of estate, wait upon this 

 honorable calling ; and in giving these, it gives all that the present 

 life can bestow^, while it opens, through its influence, the path to 

 Heaven. 



After the address, the reports of the twenty-eight committees, 

 appointed for that purpose, were read from the stand. 



[The list of premiums awarded, will be found with the reports of 

 the several committees.] 



The following resolutions were adopted at the close of the able 

 address delivered by Mr. Quincy. Hon. John A. King offered the 

 following resolution, which was unanimously adopted : 



Resolved, That the New- York State Agricultural Society are under 

 great obligations to Hon. Josiah Quincy, Jr., for the able and eloquent 

 address this day delivered to the farmers of New-York ; and that he 

 be requested to furnish the society with a copy of the same for publi- 

 cation in the Transactions of the society. 



On motion of H. S. Randall, of Cortland county. 



Resolved, That the society are indebted to the mayor and citizens of 

 Utica for their spirit and liberality in carrying out all the preparatory 

 arrangements for the State Fair, and their hospitality in receiving and 



