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working man Avhat no enactment can do. You have made all 

 producers ; you have multlphed your powers by the use of Na- 

 ture's forces, you have stopped all useless destruction of products. 

 Labor is utilized ; every blow is turned to the best advantage. 

 It' may be impossible to reach such a happy state of society. 

 But New England is already on the road. She has but to be 

 faithful to the church and the school-house, to her wise system of 

 agriculture and manufacture and commerce combined, and she 

 will continue in the van, as she has thus far been. It is not too 

 much to say, that the farmer and artisan of New England can 

 command to-day the comforts of civilized life, all that is desirable 

 for man, as a physical and intellectual being, as fully as the farmer 

 and artisan in any portion of the world. New England has only 

 just begun to understand her own capabilities ; but the brain and 

 hand are both at work. Her streams must not hurry on to the 

 ocean without serving human labor every foot that the water falls ; 

 her soil must yield its riches to the intelligent, scientific husband- 

 man ; virtue and intelligence and love of freedom must be the 

 legacy which we all bequeath to our children. We shall then be- 

 come a blessing to the world, lightening the toil and cheering the 

 hearts of honest laborers in every part of the globe. 



