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and rocommeud to the consideration of the public, the Suffolk pigs 

 brought on to the ground by I. R. Grosvernor, Esq. 



E. G. MORTON, Sec'y. 



ANNUAL ADDRESS. 



BV I. P. OHRTSTIANGV. 



Ladies and Gentlemen: 



Having been requested to address you, I shall take up none of your 

 time in making apologies. Should I avow my incompetency to give 

 you an address worthy of the occasion, I should only be saying in ad- 

 vance, what you will be sure to discover, without my saying it; and 

 should I take the time to make an adequate apology, I should have 

 little left for saying anything else, and should then need to apologize 

 for having made the apology. 



I therefore proceed at once to what I have to say upon the subject 

 which has brought us together. This subject, if I correctly apprehend 

 it, is the subject of labor — the great subject of human industry, its ne- 

 cessity, its nature, its object and its end. 



This, in all its bearings, would embrace the history of our race and 

 an exposition of all the arts and sciences, all that has been learned, all 

 that has been accomplished by man. It would be vain to attempt all 

 this in a single address ; impossible to accomphsh it in a lifetime. 



All, therefore, which I shall attempt, will be to show the necessity 

 of human industry, its nature and objects, and to deduce some gen- 

 eral laws which apply to and govern it in all its [departments, the ob- 

 sei-vance of which is calculated to render labor more conducive to our 

 happiness, and the neglect or violation of which often renders labor val- 

 ueless or positively hurtful. 



The necessity for labor, to a considerable extent, and as a means of 

 self preservation, is common to all animated Nature, and has alike been 

 imposed by our Creator, upon man and upon every living thing which 

 inhabits the earth. 



Vegetable life— the tree or the plant, may remain comparatively mo- 

 tionless, and without conscious exertion, draw its support from the earth 

 and the atmosphere ; but for the preservation of animal life, some de- 



