ADDRESS 



Delivered at the close of the 19th Annual Fair of the 

 American Institute, at Castle Garden, Oct. 23, 1846, 



By Adoniram Chandler, Esq. 



We come now, fellow-citizens, to close the Nineteenth Annua! 

 Fair of the American Institute, and return you our thanks for the 

 countenance and patronage which you have afforded us. It is our 

 design to benefit, in some measure, the great and diversified interests 

 of labor throughout the land. We regret to meet you this year un- 

 der circumstances calculated to discourage, to some extent, that por- 

 tion of our friends who are engaged in many of the mechanic arts 

 and manufactures. It is our belief that the cloud which has gather- 

 ed to embarrass their progress, will soon be made to pass away. The 

 aid of the artisan and manufacturer is essential to the great commu- 

 nity of laborers who must occupy the vast extent of this Union. So 

 intimately are their interests interwoven, that they are indispensable 

 to each other. There is a necessity for all, employment for all, room 

 for all, and there should be protection for all. But prejudices are 

 yet to be removed, truths to be established, demagogueism to be ex- 

 posed, and many, very many, of our fellow-men to be enlightened in 

 regard to the true interests of labor, as connected with, and essential 

 to, the progress and destiny of this vast empire. 



What have we to do with the theories of other men or nations, 

 in regard to our intercourse with the world, or the regulations of 

 our own domestic economy? There is no nation on earth like this. 

 Our government is different, soil and climate different, and our habits 

 are different from all other nations. Government here was designed 

 to be such as should exercise a paternal watchfulness over all our 

 rights and interests. Our habits are proverbial for industry and 

 enterprise; and nature has strewed the land we inhabit profusely 

 with all that industry could desire, or enterprise ask for. All these 

 great resources, were they not in rapid progress of development? 



