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which all others are but the means — is a generation of noble 

 men and women, filling and adorning thousands of simple 

 rural homes. 



The Chairman then called upon Hon. Marshall P. 

 "Wilder to address the meeting. 



Col. Wilder. I am' called upon so unexpectedly, that it 

 is impossible for me to address you in a satisfactory manner, 

 after a gentleman who is so sound in all his views as Presi- 

 dent Chadbourne, has addressed you as he has this evening. 

 I cannot refrain, however, from expressing the gratification I 

 feel in seeing so large an audience of the gentlemen who com- 

 pose the Board, and others who are distinguished in the arts 

 of culture. I have been extremely gratified with President 

 Chadbourne's lecture, and although at first my views did not 

 quite coincide with his (I have not quite understood this prin- 

 ciple of cooperation and Grangerism), he has converted me. 

 Now the question is, Where can we find the sinews of war to 

 carry out this principle? I believe it is perfectly sound, 

 physically and morally ; but the question is, whether we can 

 find twenty-five or fifty young men in New England to go to 

 Kansas, — and I believe they could not do a better thing, — or 

 to California, where there are unoccupied lands which, if they 

 could be possessed, would almost feed the whole nation. But 

 the point is, as I have said, whether we can get our young 

 men in New England to turn their enterprise in that direc- 

 tion. 



Having expressed my views, I think it is the duty of some 

 other gentleman to come to the relief of the assemblj^ 



Mr. Flint. I was very glad to hear President Chadbourne 

 allude to the results of the labor of the Mormons in Utah. I 

 have visited that Territory two or three times. I spent a few 

 days there this summer, and had been there previously, and 

 it seems to me that, setting aside the question of their pecul- 

 iar social system, there are many things for our community 

 to learn from the last thirty years of the experience of the 

 Mormons in Utah. They Avent there, as has been eloquently 

 stated, a poor, oppressed and despised people. They were 

 led over the plains under every possible disadvantage that 

 you can conceive of. They found the country around Salt 

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