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There is scarcely a requisite that our own skill and industry can- 

 not produce. Let me call your attention to the machine which ena- 

 bles the blind to write. This is pronounced a master-piece of human 

 ingenuity, creditable in the highest degree to the inventor. I must 

 confess that I beheld the operation of this machine with a degree of 

 reverence, arising, perhaps, from a tnought at the moment, that it 

 might be one of the nearest approximations of which man is capa- 

 ble to that power, 



"Who, from thick films can purge the visual ray, 

 And on the sightless eye-ball pour the day." 



There are many things deserving of especial praise. The excel- 

 lent linen thread, spun by machinery, from Waterford, New-York; 

 the coach lamps from Newark; the beautiful and perfect specimens 

 of leather, from J. & R. Ward, of Newark, and various other con- 

 tributors; the jack-screws of Ballard; the grates of Jackson; the 

 soaps of Roussel; the copper minerals from Lake Superior and New- 

 Jersey; the school furniture of Mott; the rich display of cloths from 

 Northampton, Massachusetts, from Connecticut, New-York, and New- 

 Jersey. Cottons from Newburyport, Massachusetts, Whitestown and 

 Troy, New- York, Providence and Pawtucket, Rhode-Island, and the 

 horticultural and floral productions from a host of friends, with thou- 

 sands on thousands of other specimens by which we are surrounded; 

 all testifying to the industry, skill and enterprise of the freemen of 

 this land, and uniting with us in one grand chorus of praise to God 

 that our lot has been cast in pleasant places. 



