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particular thanks to government, our State contains a million 

 of souls. What are we all about ? We raise no cotton, nor 

 rice, nor tobacco, none of the great staples which swell the 

 columns of foreign and domestic commerce. We raise a mere 

 pittance of the wheat, and only a portion of the corn, and po- 

 tatoes, and meat we consume. But we work and produce ; we 

 generate capital and reproduce that ; until this year of our 

 Lord, we can furnish a series of results, before which cotton 

 planting pales away. If the same proportionate progress has 

 attended our productions, in the last five years, which has 

 marked our increase in population, then here we are, a million 

 of people, yielding to the world an annual product of Massa- 

 chusetts capital and Massachusetts industry of one hundred and 

 fifty millions of dollars. We have done this by dividing and 

 subdividing our labor, and then refining upon that. Judg- 

 ing by the last census, our population was almost equally 

 divided between agriculture and manufactures. We have prac- 

 tised upon the ancient maxim, " one man's labor creates em- 

 ployment for another." By this classification of industry the 

 agricultural interest has caught at every stage a fresh impulse, 

 while elasticity and energy animate the whole. From the 

 docks and wharves, the farms and factories, the warehouses 

 and workshops, the State sends forth a ceaseless hum of mutual 

 encouragement and constant re-invigoration. Public enterprise 

 has assumed concentrated form. Railroads stretch from centre 

 to circumference, and Long Wharf is united to Berkshire. 

 On this broad theatre of performance, agriculture acts its part, 

 and acts it well, but other agencies have been called in to give 

 greater variety of character to the scenes of the play. Wher- 

 ever all these instrumentalities have been most busily em- 

 ployed, there our population has bounded forward with the 

 greatest rapidity. For all these forms and phases of labor this 

 anniversary invokes our consideration and gratitude. They 

 woo the farmer away from narrow views to a lovelier and sweeter 

 communion with all other and cooperating pursuits. Far, far 

 off cast prejudices and jealousies, and welcome here the rights 

 and relations of all classes and professions which respond from 

 their several vocations, to the decree that was sent forth in 

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