426 SELECTIONS FROM ADDRESSES. 



Paradise for one and for all. It is by their common exertions 

 that we have convened in this place of annual congratulation, 

 citizens of a rich, powerful, and happy Commonwealth. They 

 all perform their parts. They all hold aloft the colors of the 

 Pilgrims, united, a victory awaits them. Their industry shall 

 be prospered, and their numbers multiplied from age to age, till 

 Massachusetts, from her mountains and valleys, aye, and from 

 the broad sea itself, shall enumerate her increasing myriads 



" In multitudes, like which the populous North 

 Poured never from her frozen loins, to pass 

 Rhone, or the Danau." 



What can be done for the Farming of Norfolk County ? 



[Extract from an Address by Hon. Charles Francis Adams, at the last 

 Fair of the JVoifolk Agricidtural Society,] 



First of all then, let us look for a moment at where we are 

 and what we do. Norfolk County, in which we live, is a tract 

 of land naturally of middling quality, bordering for about twelve 

 miles on salt water, under the forty-second parallel of north 

 latitude, and containing an area of about four hundred and fifty 

 square miles, of which it is estimated that not more than a 

 fifteenth part is devoted to any species of artificial cultivation. 

 Upon this tract we learn by the latest enumeration, dwell about 

 eighty thousand human beings or nearly one hundred and 

 eighty souls to a square mile. If equally distributed over the 

 surface, it would then follow that all which these one hundred 

 and eighty beings gain of subsistence from the labor of agri- 

 culture is obtained from one-fifteenth part of the square mile 

 which they occupy. Such are the estimates which I have ob- 

 tained from intelligent men who have taken the pains to look 

 at Massachusetts as she is. But the fact really is, that these 

 eighty thousand souls, instead of being evenly scattered over 

 the tract, are placed in divisions denominated townships, twen- 

 ty-two in number, of very unequal territorial extent, and still 

 more unequal in wealth and in the numbers which inhabit 



