ADDRESS. 



fisheries, the primary school of our commercial and 

 naval marine, sending out their pupils equally prepared 

 to become fishers of men, in another than the apostolic 

 sense, as they were in 1812, and would be in case of 

 foreign war now, — or peaceful carriers of the spices of 

 the Indies, the teas and silks of China, the fruits and 

 wines of the Mediterranean. In inventions and manu- 

 factures, we find the tale of New England triumphs 

 already trite. Her cunning hand has touched nothing 

 that did not receive new life from the contact ; her 

 fertile brain has outflanked where it could not conquer. 

 I suppose your " prints " are " warranted fast colors " 

 in the waters of the Oronoco, the Ganges or the Hoang 

 Ho, as well as in those of the Nashua and Merrimac. 

 Your plows turn the soil for Australian and African 

 crops. Men are plodding in your boots and shoes, or 

 rolling along in your coaches or rail cars, amidst the 

 dust of many climes. At this moment a Massachusetts 

 engineer* is spanning the South American continent 

 with an Iron road, to stretch its length a thousand 

 miles over the chain of the Andes, from the Amazon to 

 the Pacific. And, under the head of " articles not 

 enumerated" in the schedules of the customs, what 

 quantities of "Yankee Notions" go forth, to tickle the 

 laughing faces of the children, to lessen the labors of 

 husbands and housewives, to protect the health, or add 

 to the comfort, or soothe the repose, not of the rest of 

 our own quarter of the globe alone, but also of other 

 races of men far across the seas. 



Reverting, however, from Commerce and Manufac- 

 tures, to that yet greater interest which stands behind 

 them both, and constitutes the first aim of Human 



*Mr. William Wheelwright. 



