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and the Sciences properly connected with it. We need some'hing: 

 for too long have we been obliged to look abroad for the necessary 

 life-sustaining products — and this night, I deny the necessity for do- 

 ing so any longer. We have here, all around, evidence that our 

 country is competent, and that we posess the abundant ability to 

 supply our oivn ivants. This room affords ample demonstration. 



Here is on exhibition before you, a sample of an ^'Hydraulic 

 Ram^^^ with the power of a head of water from a common barrel, 

 placed six feet above the floor: this Ram is forcing a stream of water 

 up through a pipe on top of this castle, near thirty feet in height. 



The instrument has long been known as a matter of science, but 

 not in coincidence with the climate and soil, it las become almost 

 obsolete in English learning. Claiming to provide at small expense 

 for raising up water, to irrigate Lawns and fields of Table land, the 

 revival of the "Water Ram," and its already extensive spread in 

 this country, are evidence of the public want and the tone of pub- 

 lic feeling. 



Look at the article of Iron. Twenty years ago, it was costly 

 and difficult of manufacture. We looked to importations. Five 

 thousand dollars, then, in domestic productions, have swollen to 

 millions, and the cost is greatly reduced. We feel that our country 

 is able to produce enough : and yet, while American mechanics need 

 employment, we are looking abroad for the manufactures that should 

 come from the labor of our own people ! 



In Cutlery^ England has yielded the endeavor to supply us;, and 

 now comes here to obtain our patterns and learn from us the per- 

 fection of her work. 



There is the Steam- Engine^ too: England acknowledges our su- 

 premacy, and Russia knows where she gets the best, and sends to 

 America for her steam-engines, and instructions to make her Rail- 

 roads. We have here on exhibition a revolvincr Steam-Ensfine, 

 deemed a great improvement. Again, England knows where she 

 cm be best supplied, and comes here for samples of her Railroad 

 Cars. 



Sf earn has long been known as a matter of science.; but it was 

 the American Fulton who first adapted it to public use, and worked 

 a revolution in the commerce and navigation of the world. It was- 

 our Franklin "who called down the lightning from the heavens,"- — 



