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the manufacturers and mechanics of the county, which amount 

 to the pretty round sum of two millions and a half of dollars. 

 To this gratifying and instructive result I will add, that the 

 same statistics disclose that there are directly employed in these 

 pursuits nearly 45,000 persons Many of these are heads of 

 families, and scarcely any of them but have one or more de- 

 pendent upon their earnings. It may, therefore, be fairly in- 

 ferred that at least two-fifths of the population are supported 

 by other than farming pursuits. It is apparent by this time 

 that there are within the consecrated boundaries of your poetic 

 districts other sounds than the lowing of herds. There are 

 other interests and other creatures nestling beneath the crests 

 of your mountains, besides quiet farmers and their browsing 

 sheep. The music of the plains finds a response in the music 

 of waterfalls, in the fierce glow of furnaces, the echoes of the 

 hammer and the axe, the spindle and the loom, and goes up 

 the arched sky to mingle with the sounds from this blessed 

 domain of industry. 



These are some of the harmonious results. The two grand 

 divisions of labor, agriculture and manufactures, have gone on- 

 ward and upward together, each offering a market to the other, 

 and both uniting to develop and reward the efforts of man. 

 Inexhaustible beds of iron and marble have burst the sleep of 

 ages, to sleep no longer. The advancing population have di- 

 vided off and worked on in their different spheres, good and 

 able customers, not only to the farmer, but to the hatter and 

 the shoemaker, the manufacturer and the mechanic, the saddler, 

 the carpenter and the bricklayer, each to the other, and all to 

 the farmer. Railroads have swept round the summits of Berk- 

 shire. Markets have sprung up in her midst to work up her 

 wool, and iron, and timber, and leather ; and to eat here at 

 home, her flour and corn, her cheese and butter, her beef, and 

 mutton, and potatoes. Manufactures and agriculture have ac- 

 complished these things. Living in equality, advancing in 

 fraternity, each has built up, developed, enriched the other. 

 They have achieved moral triumphs that no man can number. 

 They have started thousands in the grand race of life, organ- 



