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well as to mankind at large, by the multiplication of 

 hands and heads engaged in the same work, and of 

 workshops emulous of each other. 



We cannot prevent jealousies, or repress evil exulta 

 tions, on the part of individual men. But while I am 

 satisfied that, in the present condition of Great Britain, 

 there are no signs of decay, but marks of progress every 

 where, and everywhere new energy awakening to meet 

 new difficulties which that very progress brings in suc 

 cession to one or other of our complicated interests, so 

 mutually dependent and interwoven I am equally 

 satisfied that with the progress and power of each 

 country that of the other is intimately associated asso 

 ciated not for evil, but for good and that if we fall not 

 out, and come to blows by the way, which we shall be 

 slow to do, every rise of young America will give a new 

 lift up to old England; while the more formed and 

 settled character of British habits and institutions will 

 steady a little, give ballast to, and insensibly bias some 

 what the course of the noble States ship, which the crew, 

 governing by numbers at least as much as by skill, are 

 sometimes inclined to put recklessly before the wind, and 

 to crowd with sail beyond what she is able to bear. 



Feb. 8. u The American Institute&quot; is a society estab 

 lished at New York, and supported in part by a grant 

 from the Legislature which occupies itself chiefly with 

 the promotion of the arts and of agriculture. It holds 

 an annual exhibition of arts and manufactures in the 

 city, and these have of late years been very splendid, 

 satisfactory to all parties, and useful to the State. 

 To General Chandler, the secretary of this society, and to 

 several of its members, I was indebted for much attention 

 during my brief stay ; and it was particularly gratifying 

 to me to see with what warmth all, both in New York 

 and in Albany, entered into the objects of the &quot; London 

 Exhibition of 1851,&quot; how anxious all were to take 



