THE STATE OF AGRICULTURE IN EUROPE, 



AN ADDRESS, &c. 



Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: 



One of the first lessons a European has to learn after he 

 has landed on the shores of this new world, is to dispos- 

 sess his mind of all those associations, rich and rare, with 

 which the history of past ages has connected the names of 

 remarkable places. In passing through New England it 

 was my fortune to stop at towns and villages called by 

 names long familiar to my ears — the sounds of which 

 seemed to say, " in a few hours or minutes you will arrive 

 again at your own home and hearth." 



But in travelling from Albany to this place, I have met 

 with people fresh from Troy — I have come through Utica 

 and Rome — and from the lips of children have heard of 

 other mighty cities which our earliest European lessons 

 clothe in the hoar of remote antiquity, and illuminate with 

 the glory of immortal deeds. In the desire thus to connect 

 your new towns with the recollection of famous actions, I 

 would read an admiration of the actions themselves, and 

 secret aspirations after similar renown. 



In the old world, I have just left, there exists an ancient 

 Syracuse, rich in all those bounties of heaven, which 



