AMERICAN QUARTERLY JOURNAL 



OF 



AGRICULTURE AND SCIENCE. 



JANUARY, 1846 



PORTRAIT OF GOVERNOR WRIGHT. 



With this number we present our patrons with a fine steel en- 

 graving of His Excellency Silas Wright, Governor of the State 

 of New York. In this act we by no means wish our friends to 

 infer that we are treading, or intend to tread, upon political 

 ground. The engraving is given in obedience to the desire which 

 is manifested among the great body of the people to possess 

 works of this character; and in obedience to this desire, we in- 

 tend hereafter, should the Journal be sustained, to embellish it in 

 this manner. Mr. Wright has now attained that period of life 

 when the judgment and intellect have reached the highest stage 

 of dev elopement — when the physical, intellectual and moral man, 

 sustain and invigorate each other — when the hand to execute is 

 strong and unfaultering — the capacity to devise the greatest, and 

 that of doing good, the widest. It is at this period that the 

 character becomes national, and when what a man says and does 

 lives the longest in posterity, and remains a monument of his 

 folly or wisdom, when his earlier or later acts will be forgotten. 

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