ADDRESS 



BY ASA T. NEWHALL 



Mr. President and Gentlemen: 



Another annual revolution of the seasons has brought uS 

 together to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of our society. Our 

 present prosperous condition as a society, and the abundant crops of 

 our early, and the prospect of the later harvest, not^rithstanding 

 the severity of the drought for a short season, demands from us the 

 tribute of grateful acknowledgment to the beneficent Author of all 

 our mercies, who has caused his sun to shine and his rain to descend 

 upon our fields and meadows, blessing and rewarding the labors of 

 the husbandman. 



The great degree of health that has prevailed amongst us the 

 present season, when many of our neighboring towns and cities have 

 been visited by one of the most alarming and fatal diseases known 

 in our world, calls upon us to ascribe thanksgiving and praise to the 

 great Preserver of man, who holds in his hands the keys of life and 

 of death. 



But while it is fit and proper that we should rejoice in the smiles 

 of a kind Providence, that has permitted so many of our members 

 to meet on this occasion, for mutual congratulations, for the success 

 which has attended the efforts of our society, for the promotion of 

 agricultural improvements, and to exchange our views, and to com- 

 municate to one another the result of different modes of farming, 

 we feel most deeply impressed with the loss we have sustained by 

 the recent death of one of our most learned and useful members. 



It is known to all of you, that since the last meeting of the board 

 of trustees of this association, it has pleased the All-wise Disposer 

 of events to remove by death hira who had engaged, previous to his 

 leaving for Europe, to address us on this occasion — the Rev. Henry 

 Coleman — a man long endeared to us all by his many amiable quali- 

 ties, social disposition, and exemplary virtues ; and held in especial 

 regard and esteem by us, for his generous exertions and highly vU- 

 uable services in that cause whose advancement and prosperity we 



