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John Hancock and Samuel Adams were wavering in alarm, 

 these mechanics came up, and forced the Constitution to its 

 adoption, in Massachusetts. In New York, at a meeting of the 

 master carpenters, at the house of William Ketchum, in April, 

 1788, a similar sentiment prevailed in their ranks, and they 

 sent up to the Convention, at Poughkeepsie. those great men of 

 the times, Livingston, and Jay, and Hamilton, whose voices 

 won over the Empire State to the cause of constitutional gov- 

 ernment. The yeomen of those days were engaged in the same 

 undertaking. And I hold it as a type of the destiny of Ameri- 

 can liberty, and American labor, that those times found agricul- 

 tural stability, commercial sagacity, and forensic eloquence, 

 combining, with the nerved arm of the mechanic, to unfurl over 

 American industry the broad banner of constitutional liberty, 

 and constitutional law. If we are not too much wiser than the 

 fathers, we shall, with a purpose as unanimous as our interests 

 are, invoke their spirit, and appreciate their instructions. And 

 as all industry is harmonious, from the Aroostook to Pascagoula, 

 so ought government to conspire in the happy social union, to 

 beautify and adorn our national heritage with the most brilliant 

 results of practical science, with myriad specimens of mechanical 

 invention and improvement, and with such ample measure of 

 agricultural production, as shall make ours the workshop and 

 the granary of the world. 



Intellectual Labor Essential to Success in Agriculture. 



[Extracts from an Address, hj Hon. William H. Wood, at the last Fair of the 

 Plymouth County Agricultural Society.] 



However important bodily labor may be. however certain that 

 no result can be obtained without it, that alone is not sufficient 

 to ensure success. Else were the labor of the slave as produc- 

 tive as that of the free-man. There must be mental as well as 

 bodily labor. Unless the hand be directed by the mind, it will 

 have no cunning. Intelligent labor, labor directed by the intel- 

 lect, is alone productive. To illustrate how much success in 

 agriculture depends on intellectual labor, is my object. 



