ADDRESS 



Delivered at the Opening of the Twenty-Third Annual Fail. 



By Hon. Henry MiaQ«, 



Ladies and Gentlemen, — 



On behall of the American Institute, I have the pleasure o 

 opening the twenty-third Annual Fair. 



The old world always used to celebrate the season of fruits, 

 especially the harvest and the vintage, with joyful sports. The 

 fall of those good things, bread and grapes, filled every soul with 

 gratitude to the Giver of all good Behold in this ample amphi- 

 theatre the ripened fruits not only of our rich gardens and fields, 

 but of our never-ceasing industry in all the Manufactures and 

 Arts, ^ 



The productions of our heads and hands justly cause a proud 

 feeling in our breast. From om- first rude work t'..- our most 

 perfect, we rejoice in progress — how great the results of this 

 most exalted feeling ! Man is said to be not only without im- 

 piety, but with the highest attribute, the maker of things left un- 

 made by his Creator. He that cannot make an ocean steamer 

 that will cut her way through the rough Atlantic, three hundred 

 miles a day — nevertheless has a full share of honorable pride in 

 the fact that his fellow-citizens have done it, and the more use- 

 ful and the more grand the achievements of his brothers are, so 

 much more proud does he become of his country. He feels it a 

 title of honor, of high distinction to say, — I too am an American. 

 And it is also natural for our old relative, England, to witness 

 the unparalleled increase of Jonathan, and to hear her speech 

 already that of the most people of the two Americas, to see thou- 



[Assembly, No. 149.] S 



