AMERICAN JOURNAL 



OF 



AGRICULTURE AND SCIENCE. 



No. XVIII. OCTOBER, 1847. 



GOV. WRIGHT'S ADDRESS.* 

 At the Exhibition of the New- York State Ag. Society Sept. 16, 1847. 



Mr. President, and Gentlemen of the State Agricultural Socie- 

 ty : — Had it been ray purpose to entertain you with a eulogium 

 upon the great interest confided to your care, the Agriculture of 

 the State, 1 should find myself forestalled by the exhibition which 

 surrounds us, and which has pronounced that eulogy to the eye, 

 much more forcibly, impressively, eloquently, than I could com- 

 mand language to pronounce it to the ear of this assembly. 



Had I mistakenly proposed to address to you a discourse upon 

 agricultural production, this exhibition would have driven me 

 from my purpose, by the conviction that I am a backward and 

 scarcely initiated scholar, standing in the presence of masters, 

 with the least instructed and experienced of whom, it would be 

 my duty to change places. 



The agriculture of our state, far as it yet is from maturity and 

 perfection, has already become an art, a science, a profession, in 

 which he who would instruct must be first himself instructed far 

 beyond the advancement of him who now addresses you. 



The pervading character of this great and vital interest, how- 

 ever; its intimate connection with the wants, comforts, and inter- 

 ests of every man in every employment and calling in life; and 

 its controlling relations to the commerce, manufactures, substantial 

 independence, and general health and prosperity of our whole 

 people, present abundant subjects for contemplation upon occasions 



• Most of our readers are already apprized of the sudden demise of Gov. 

 Wright, at his residence in Canton, on the 27th of Aui^ust. The address 

 was completed the evening before his death, and was read at the Exhibition, 

 by the Hon. John A. Dix. 



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