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would be seen and understood, that whatever had been done 

 for any one of the great interests of American labor had 

 been done for all ; and that all were bound up together for 

 a common weal or a common woe, incapable of separation 

 or opposition. There is nothing indeed more evident, and 

 nothing more beautiful, than the harmony of all the great 

 industrial interests in our Union. There may be jealousies 

 and rivalries and oppositions between the farmers and the 

 manufacturers and the merchants elsewhere, in the old, 

 closely settled, and crowded populations of Europe ; but 

 there can be none reasonably, none rightfully, here. Nothing 

 short of miraculous intervention, liive that which watered 

 the fleece of Gideon, while all the other fleeces were dry, 

 can elevate one branch of industry, or one department of 

 labor, at the expense of another. The highest prosperity 

 of each is not only consistent with, but inseparable from, 

 the highest prosperity of all. What is done for any is done 

 for all ; and all find their best encouragement and protection 

 in the common welfare and prosperity of the whole com- 

 munity. We see, or ought to see, something of that 

 mutual sympathy and succor among American laborers, of 

 which so graphic a sketch is given by one of the prophets 

 of Israel : " So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, 

 and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote 

 the anvil. They helped every one his neighbor ; and every 

 one said to his brother, Be of good courage." 



The greatest division of labor, the most complete and 

 cordial union among laborers, — this is the true motto 

 and maxim which our condition suggests and inculcates ; 

 and the American farmer should be the first to adopt and 

 cherish it. 



A word or two, Mr. President and gentlemen, and only a 

 word or two, in conclusion. In all that I have said, I have 

 spoken, as I proposed to speak, of American agriculture, so 

 far as it is occupied in the production of food, and through 



