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not take more interest in this international exhibition. Never was there 

 such an opening for American skill and industry. Here American 

 manufacturers and mechanics had opened to them, in the house of their 

 friends, the opportunity of presenting their inventions, skill, and pro- 

 ducts direct, and free from those embarrassments so frequently attending 

 former exhibitions in other portions of Europe, surrounded by those who 

 are bound to us by so many ties of friendship and consanguinity ; those 

 devoted, wherever they go, to agricultural pursuits ; those who cultivate 

 the immense agricultural districts stretching from the Rhine to the 

 Danube, from the Baltic to the Mediterranean. 



" The exhibition of American machinery and implements received a 

 great accession from a most liberal donation from several of the leading 

 German merchants, bankers, and citizens of the city of New York, 

 including a complete assortment of agricultural implements. These, 

 with the premium reaper contributed by Mr. McCormick, in connection 

 with many articles from other American contributors, are to form the 

 nucleus of an Agricultural Museum, to be established in Hamburg. 

 This I regard as the most gratifying result attending this international 

 exhibition to American interests. 



" Several thousand dollars were subscribed, before I left Hamburg, for 

 this object, and doubtless it will be carried out by the well-known 

 liberality of her citizens. 



" The establishment of this museum or depot opens for all time to come, 

 a place of deposit for American skill and products. Hamburg is the 

 third city of trade and commerce in Europe. Hamburg is the key, not 

 only to the great German mind, but the open doorway to more than one 

 hundred and fifty millions of the people of Northern Europe. With 

 Hamburg we have rapid and almost daily communication, and it is 

 difficult to estimate the advantage which will accrue to our mechanical 

 skill and industry, our manufacturers, our commerce and trade, by the 

 location of a museum for their deposit in a city situated like Hamburg, 

 whose merchant princes hold in their hands the immense trade of Prussia, 

 Austria, Sweden, Denmark, portions of Russia, and the Slavonian States. 

 Trade and commerce invariably bring together^ men tohose interests are 

 affected thereby, lien tvill follow the fruits of their labor to market. 



" The case of Worthington & Co., of Jackson, Michigan, illustrates most 

 forcibly the prospect held out to American industry at this great assem- 

 bling of the men of labor. They sent forward one case of gardening 

 and harvesting tools of the value of twenty dollars ; such was their 

 beauty and utility, they were sold upon being opened on the ground for 

 more than thrice their value. There can be no doubt, if the small 

 appropriation asked for at the last Congress had passed, so well calculated 



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