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express these correlative ideas in a sentiment, which I trust may be welcome 

 at your festival : — 



The good Farmer and the good Citizen — Acting in conformity 

 with the laws of God rather than the statutes of man, they know that in this 

 way only, can true prosperity be obtained. 



Believe me, dear sir, with much respect. 



Very faitlifully yours, 



Charles Sumner. 

 Hon. Marshall P. Wilder. 



Mr. Wilder then introduced lion. Josiali Quincy, by remark- 

 ing, That the Society were honored by the presence of its eldest 

 member, the Farmer op Quincy, not like Cincmnatus from the 

 military camp, but like Cincinnatus from the field, and even more 

 noble than he, has brought his plough and his team with him. I 

 give you — 



Our Octogenarian Farmer — Unlike that plant which blossoms but 

 once in a hundred years, he bids fair to bloom and bear fruit through the 

 whole century. 



To this' sentiment Mr. Quincy replied in a very happy and in- 

 structive speech, referring to his long experience as a Norfolk 

 farmer, having been for fifty-seven years a cultivator of the soil 

 in that County. His speech was received with much approbation 

 and applause. 



The next toast was — 



Our Representatives in Congress — May they remember that all 

 which is worthy of legislative care springs from the soil. In lavishing their 

 appropriations on the sword, may they not forget the plough and the spade. 



To this, Hon. J. Wiley Edmands, Representative in Congress 

 from this District, and the Hon. S. P. Benson, M. C. from Maine, 

 responded in appropriate speeches. The latter gentleman urged 

 the yeomanry of the country to ask Congress for such aid as 

 might be needed for the cause of Agriculture, assuring them that 

 if they were united in the request, and would march boldly up 

 with their petition, it would not be refused. 



The following was then announced — 



The Orator of the Day — His labors to-day afford ample proof that 

 what he preaches he is able to practice. 



Rev. James Richardson, Jr., rephcd to this sentiment in his 

 eloquent and usually happy style. 



