ADDRESS. 



Mr. President and Gentlemen : 



Instructed, as I have been by the rich experiences 

 of this and other similar occasions, I will not detain you 

 long from the attractive festivities which are before you. 

 It must be the great thought of us all, that the Author 

 of Nature and Ruler of the Seasons has vouchsafed 

 such an abundant harvest to this country and indeed to 

 the whole world, as the present and coming wants of 

 man seemed to require ; but which was only hoped 

 for rather than expected, even by the most devoted 

 believers in the Providence of Heaven. No one of 

 us, it may be, has witnessed a year of such uninter- 

 rupted beauty and bounty as this. Spring preserved 

 its ascendency through the summer, and the fall, the 

 decay, the death of the year, has scarcely commenced. 

 Some one has said that if the Pilgrims had landed in 

 the fertile regions of the West New England would 

 not have been settled. This may be, but it was great, 

 though not singular, good fortune then, that immigrants 

 by sea are compelled to land upon the coast before they 



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