MR. OLIVER'S ADDRESS. 6 



Success to Industry again, — whether of the Plough, the 

 Loom, or the Ship ! And yet, what and where were the Loom 

 and the Ship, without the Plough ? Nay, what were either, 

 without the other two ? For, as " the eye cannot say unto 

 the hand, I have no need of thee, and as the head cannot say 

 unto the feet, I have no need of you," — so these triple twins of 

 the great interests of society are linked together in mutual and 

 inseparable necessity of each other. Neither can exist, if sun- 

 dered from the others, any more than the life of the Siamese 

 twins could be preserved, were you to sever the ligature by 

 which God hath bound them together. And it was with 

 discriminating justice, and with enlarged and liberal views, that 

 this Society, created more expressly for the promotion of Agri- 

 cultural industry and interests, joined in fitting bands upon its 

 escutcheon, the emblems of these three great industrial pur- 

 suits, so long and so successfully carried forward by the people 

 of our County of Essex. May you never forsake, nor forget 

 your device, but 



" Forever wear it, 



Until it witlicr v/ith }-ou to the grave, 



Or flom-ish to the height of its degree." — SJial'i^penre'tf Henrij TT. 



Farmers of Essex, and Friends : 



At first thought, it would seem that he who addresses farm- 

 ers, on the great subject of husbandry, should himself possess 

 more agricultural wisdom and skill, than they. The thought 

 is certainly natural enough, and in the practical application of 

 much to which it relates, is unquestionably true. But it is by 

 no means of universal adaptation. A well known English dro- 

 ver, as lank and lean in his body, as he was in his mind, being 

 one day in a Bookseller's shop, in London, where was also pres- 

 ent that intellectual giant, Dr. Samuel Johnson, took up a Vol- 

 ume of Churchill's Poems, and read off", with pompous utter- 

 ance, the following line, 



"He who rules freemen, should himself be free." 



Then turning to the Doctor, with a smile of satisfaction, he 

 cried, '' there Sir, what do you think of that r" " I think it 



