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to call the attention of our people in time to this exhibition, thereby 

 arousing a spirit of emulation, hundreds if not thousands of samples of 

 our diversified mechanical inventions and manufacturing skill would 

 have been upon the ground, and the foundation kid for a trade of hun- 

 dreds of thousands of dollars. No American could walk over the 

 ground and witness for himself the crowd and the articles on exhibition 

 without wishing for a larger number of our inventions and productions 

 to exhibit side by side with those around him. All seemed to regret we 

 had not our substantial farm wagons and carts, our carriages and buggies, 

 our horses of speed and strength, cur large work oxen, and other 

 productions to show the thousands thus assembled the growth, skill, and 

 energy of the men of the New World." 



Although the American department was not so well repre- 

 sented as we should have been glad to have seen it, still it was 

 quite respectable, and, as intimated above, quite as attractive 

 as any other part of the fair. It drew a constant and pressing 

 crowd, all interested in the smaller farm tools, especially. In 

 hoes, shovels, forks and rakes we could have made a magnificent 

 display, and I saw no axes to be compared with those of our 

 own Douglas Axe Company. 



" In a commercial point of view," says Gov. Wright, " many advantages 

 are anticipated from our connection with this great international exhibi- 

 tion. The strong sympathy which has been awakened, and the long 

 existing friendship which has been strengthened towards the people of 

 the United States by the interest manifested by the Chief Executive 

 officer of the States collectively and the several States, in their efforts to 

 promote the agricultural industry of the world, will far outweigh, at a 

 time like this, all other advantages. 



" It was most manifest that the great German Empire, with which we 

 formed an early treaty of friendship and commerce, and with which we 

 have maintained unbroken relations of peace from the days of Washing- 

 ton, regard our troubles with intense solicitude. 



" The presence of the American delegates and our inventions and 

 products on this occasion was well calculated, not only to promote the 

 material interests of both countries, but to bind together more closely 

 the long existing peaceable relations. 



" We found everywhere an ardent sympathy for the restoration of law 

 and order — for our triumph, for the unity of our country. This feeling 

 was most manifest among the friends and relatives of our adopted citizens 

 in the fatherland. 



