208 SELECTIONS FROM ADDRESSES. 



from her bountiful lap, and which, we trust, long after her 

 peaceful bosom shall have been opened to take us to our final 

 rest, will be the country of a free, a virtuous, and a happy peo- 

 ple, through countless generations. 



The Progress of Industry, and the Harmony of Labor. 



[^Extract from an Address, hj Hon. A. H. Bullock, al the last Fair of the Wor- 

 cester County Agricultural Society S\ 



This, then, is the grand moral lesson of the hour — the pro- 

 gress OF INDUSTRY, AND THE HARMONY OF LABOR. That PROGRESS 



is already proved and illustrated, when this society remembers, 

 on the one hand, what its fathers saw, and what they did, and 

 on the other, casts its eye on the exhibitions, and gathers up the 

 instructions, of this day. That harmony, in interest and growth, 

 in sentiment and purpose, is substantiated by this present re- 

 union of all the sons of labor at this annual civic triumph. These 

 exhibitions are teaching us that we are all producers and all 

 consumers. These holidays are proving to us that the circle of 

 all business and all pursuits, is a charmed circle, and that a sin- 

 gle jar any where spreads discord and disaster through the 

 whole. There is no such thing here as an isolated interest, nor 

 any such man as an isolated laborer. In the formation and 

 growth of communities, labor divides and subdivides itself — to 

 the end, not that this pursuit or that may become easier or more 

 honorable than the other, but that each and all maybe the more 

 profitable and the more productive. Would you say that the 

 divisions and subdivisions of human invention in the machinery 

 we have witnessed to day, with all their nice and varied im- 

 provements from year to year, involve any encroachment on the 

 rights of labor ? Neither with any more truth Avould you main- 

 tain, that any fixed department of human pursuit, whether of 

 the hand or the head, in the field or the shop, in the counting- 

 room or the ofiice, could be stricken out without imparting dis- 

 turbance to the whole. There is one harmonious idea running 



