HON. MR. SALTONSTALL. 



At a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Essex Agricul- 

 tural Society, held at Ipsuich, on Wednesday, June 25th, the 

 Hon. Daniel P. Kh\G introduced the subject of the death of lion. 

 Levekett Saltonstall, with the following remarks, and moved 

 the ResoluticHis subjoined, which were unanimously adopted : 



Mr. President. — Since the last meeting of the Trustees of the 

 Essex Agricultural Society, we have sustained a great and ir- 

 reparable loss in the lamented decease of our wortliy President, 

 the Hon. Leverett Saltonstall. Other gentlemen, connected 

 with him in the various associations for the advancement of 

 good learning, morality and religion, have rendered appropri- 

 ate tributes to his memory. It is proper that we too should no- 

 tice this melancholy event, by the adoption of resolutions ex- 

 pressive of our deep sorrow for his death, of our gratitude for 

 his services, and of our heartfelt sympathy with his bereaved 

 family. 



Mr. Saltonstall was not a practical farmer, but he was active 

 in the formation of our society, was one of its earliest members, 

 and was always warmly engaged in its success. He felt, m 

 his own words, " a deep sense of the importance of the agricul- 

 tural interests above all others as a source of individual happi- 

 ness, and of national prosperity." It is not strange that, with 



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