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ling to see the producers of such articles brought to the level and 

 condition of such a competition." 



Such a rate of wages, and such a scale of depression, are required 

 and fitted only to monarchies founded on a system degrading to their 

 subjects, trained to become the mere tools of despotism. The pre- 

 sent age has witnessed for a series of years the wars of Europe. 

 History has recorded, as mementoes to succeeding generations, the 

 finale of those mighty wars. — The great battle of Borodino, where 

 the Frenchman, fighting for the spoils of liberty, and the Cossack, 

 contending for the Empire of his Czar, fell in conflict, and were 

 alike shrouded in the snows — their bodies remaining a winter feast 

 for the wolves of Russia! — So the yet more mighty conflict of con- 

 gregated Europe in arms at Waterloo; the mendicant instruments, 

 the war horses, and the heroes that led them, and which there fell; — 

 their bones were afterwards alike collected from the battle field, and, 

 with the aid of labor-saving machinery, broken up, barrelled, and 

 shipped as manure for English agriculture! With such great exam- 

 ples for moral reflections before us, how consoling and ennobling is 

 the thought, that the labor of our country is intelligent and res- 

 pectable; and as a reward for its industry, is in the enjoyment of 

 equal rank in the community, and in the possession of all the ration- 

 al comforts of private life? Shall it not be sustained in its elevated 

 condition, and be trained in t'ae peaceful pursuits of civilized life? 



A National Convention of Fruit-Growers has been formed and 

 held in this City, under the auspices of the American Institute, as a 

 branch of the Agricultural department, during the present Fa;r^ 

 Twelve states were ably represented — bringing specimens of fruits, 

 from their several localities, presenting as a whole, in contrast and 

 in variety, an exhibition of the choicest fruits, and with an interest 

 and a display, rarely equalled or surpassed. It had been found that 

 newly imported fruits were old varieties, and sometimes bore new 

 and fictitious names, which had crept into our catalogues. A mate- 

 rial object of the Convention was to correct the Catalogue of Fruits — 

 expunge the present numerous names for the same variety — and to 

 determine and select the names of the varieties deemed useful for in- 

 dividual cultivation. As an example — the list of nearly 200 varie- 

 ties of the Grape was reduced to 15 or 20; Apples, Pears, Plums, 

 &c., underwent a somewhat like proportionate reduction. 



Gen. Tallmadge closed by adverting to a number of articles on 

 exhibition, spread upon the table before him — drawing from their 



