PISCATAQUIS CENTIIAL SOCIETY. 



This Society held its Show and Fair at Dover, 7th and 8th of 

 October, 1857, which was successful and satisfactory. An address 

 was delivered by Rev. Mr. Osgood, as follows : 



AN ADDRESS 



Delivered before the Piscataquis Central Agricultural and Horticultural Society, at 

 Dover, October 7th, 1857, by Rev. H. P. Osgood. 



Gentlemen : — There have been expended much pompous rhetoric 

 and empty declamation laudatory of labor, by persons, possessing 

 little sympathy with the industrial pursuits they have professed to 

 honor, and whose apparent interest has often been elicited by a pru- 

 dent deference to personal aggrandizement. 



You are assembled here for the worthy purpose of showing your 

 appreciation of labor, and expressing your regard for some of the 

 important interests of life. You are not enacting the part of dema- 

 gogues, seeking by fawning sycophancy and fulsome adulation, 

 popular applause ; nor do your support, your position in society, 

 your weight of character, and influence, depend upon popular ca- 

 price, or arise from any adventitious circumstances, factitious distinc- 

 tions, conventional rules, or any ephemeral conditions and relations. 

 You are connected with, and seek to promote, some of the staple 

 and fundamental interests of the world ; and by the steady pursuit 

 of a laborious, but honorable calling, contributing to humaji happi- 

 ness, and the permanency and prosperity of society. The great 

 interests you represent are founded in nature, based upon etern 

 principles, and cannot be materially affected by political changes, 

 commercial revulsions, and social revolutions ; but amid all vicissi- 

 tudes and confliicts must abide unshaken, and are therefore eminently 



