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ready. [AppLuiso.] AVe ])clieve that in tlie course of a few days 

 we shall present to you an exhiljition worthy of this Institute, worthy 

 of this _G:reat city, and wortliy of this great nation. ATe believe we sliall 

 present to you an exhibition unequalled before in this country ; in 

 cei'tain departments, never before attempted. We have here, in the 

 woolen department, the National Association of Wool Manufacturers, 

 who have come here, and will exhibit to you fabrics not excelled in 

 any part of the world. [Applause.] We do not hesitate to say so. 

 We believe that the verdict of those who make examination will bear 

 us out in the assertion. There are other items of interest in this 

 exhibition, useful and ornamental articles to be examined, novel 

 inventions, many very important and prominent things. But we 

 will not detain you. We will leave you to examine the exhibition 

 when it is finally prepared for your examination. We gather together 

 here the manufacturer and producer from all parts of the country. 

 The rich man and tlie poor man equally come here for the fostering 

 care and protection of the American Institute. [Applause.] The 

 great capitalist comes here exhibiting his product. The inventor 

 despondent, weary, almost despairing of being able to bring his 

 invention before the public, comes here and we take him by the 

 hand, and introduce him to the great mass of tlie people. [Applause.] 

 Tlie poor mechanic M'ho is unable to make his product known comes 

 here with the labor of his own hands, and we take him just as^ 

 heartily in our embrace, care for him and treat him just as well as we 

 do the wealthiest manufacturer. Like the works of nature, the-. 

 American Institute sheds abroad its benefits upon all classes aedJ 

 kinds of people all over the country. [Applause.] We shall liow 

 have the pleasure of introducing to yuu the orator of the evcjiing,. 

 Mr. Greeley, the President of the Institute. [Long coi^tinued. 

 ap])lause.] 



M-K. Gkeeley's Addkess. 

 Ladles and Gerdlemcn. — The American Institute has iiivited'you- 

 to assist it in celebrating the fortieth anniversary of its origin ; the 

 close of forty years of persistent, earnest, zealous efforts for the 

 <levelopment of American industry. Its tliirty-eighth fair, now (>]>en, 

 M-ouH have been its forty-first but for the fact that the rapid and 

 vast growth of American manufacturing and mechanical arts have 

 utterly (jutrun the exp:insion of our means and of the facilities of any 

 kind for the proper and adequate exliibition of tlie iiiqn-ovcd pro-- 



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