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I have thus, gentlemen touched upon various topics con- 

 nected with agriculture and agricultural life, omitting many of 

 perhaps equal importance, which it were impossible to consid- 

 er without taxing your patience to an unreasonable extent. I 

 have not aimed so much to unfold new truths, as to deepen in 

 your minds truths none the less vital or valuable because old. 

 If in this I have remotely succeeded, my ambition will be 

 satisfied. 



As I close, a thought of painful interest presses upon me. 

 One year ago this day, I participated in the pleasures of your 

 annual exhibition. With a large concourse, I came into this 

 house, and united in the solemnities of the occasion. As I look 

 around upon this numerous audience, I recognize many who 

 were then here. But one manly form, one familiar counte- 

 nance, I miss. He whose presence shed a cheerful influence 

 upon the meetings of your society, and who that day presided, 

 with characteristic dignity, over your deliberations, has gone 

 from your midst, to return no more. Leverett Saltonstall is 

 numbered witli the dead, and we, by a dispensation that has 

 spddened many hearts, are taught in solemn emphasis, that 

 " the most active and expanded intellect, and the most eminent 

 virtue, have as little power against the invasion of disease and 

 the law of dissolution, as the feeblest spark of mind and the 

 faintest ray of moral goodness." It is not needful that I pro- 

 nounce his eulogy. This has been done by the Press, the Pul- 

 pit, the Bar, and at a recent meeting of the Trustees of your 

 Society, by one of your own members,* with an eloquence, 

 truth and beauty, worthy its honored subject. Yet the occa- 



at fourteen thousand million-, or about one-tenth of ihe human race. Edmund Burke plac- 

 ed the number at Thirty-Five Thousand Millions. Taking the estimate of Dr. 

 Dick, and assuming the average quantity of blood in a common sized person, tlie veins of 

 those fourteen thousand millions would fill a circular lake of more than seventeen miles in 

 circumference — ten ftet deep ; in which all the navies of the world might float! Supposing 

 these slaughtered millions to average, each 4 feet in length, if placed in a row, they would 

 reach nearly 442 times around the earth, and four times around the sun. Supposing the 

 average 130 lbs. each, then they would Ibrm a globe of human flesh of nearly a mile in di- 

 ameter, weighing 1,820,000,000,000 lbs., fourteen times more than all the human beings 

 now living on the globe. — Advocate rf Peace, p. 98. 



* Hon. Daniel P. King. 



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