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and the efficient principles of political economy, to expand and in¬ 
crease the influence of that virtue, whereby alone we may hope to 
maintain our own free government and laws, is to educate the far¬ 
mer. 
We ask of the statesman, while he advocates the interests of his 
constituents at the bar of the senate; of the lawyer, who advocates 
the cause of his client at the bar of justice, and of that sacred office 
which advocates the cause of man at the bar of heaven, that they 
may ever remember the magnitude of your temporal as well as 
your eternal welfare. 
Let us not forget to exhort her, whose influence is always so 
strongly marked upon the character of men to their grave, to 
think of these things—the mother, whose affections root so deeply 
in the existence ot her child, whose anticipations are so often 
stimulated to painful anxiety for its welfare, who watches its pro¬ 
gress in life with an eye to doubt and danger, whose hopes may 
be elevated to the Giver of all good, that he has smiled graciously 
upon the career of her darling*child, or whose faithful forebodings 
may be realized in the spectacle that he is despised by the society 
of men and frowned upon by the attributes of heaven. 
In conclusion, I have a word to say with regard to these, your 
annually occurring exhibitions. Here is a reality. You meet 
your friends who are embarked in the same enterprise of life, and 
whose thoughts and hearts are congenial to your own. You see 
many of whom you before had but heard ; and here, too, you learn 
to realize,the force of numbers, of intelligence, of the strength of 
which you are composed, and that power which may be wielded 
at your will. You carry to your homes, in your mind’s eye, the 
beautiful models of your art, and judgment of their use, the cal¬ 
culation of their value, and you see the marvelous productions of 
your fruitful soil, which serve to expand your own views to the 
extent of the workings of your own skill. These are the delight¬ 
ful points in your life, to which the memory recurs with pleasure; 
they are safety valves which let off the pent up monotony of a 
country life; and, therefore, we would have you remember that 
these exhibitions are yours ; that while you are their authors and 
finishers, no one ot you should ever fail to be their friend and 
patron. 
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