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STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
I could, to direct the public mind to a consideration of a mat¬ 
ter worthy of their thought, which will, I believe, before many 
years grow to great practical importance. I have not sought 
to advocate any scheme, not even to recommend any particu¬ 
lar proceeding. It is for the people of Wisconsin to determine 
what they want done, and for their servants in coiagress to exe¬ 
cute their judgment. (Hearty applause.) 
SPEECH OF HON. C. L. FLINT. 
Hon. C. L. Flint, of Massachusetts, was then introduced. 
He had already had his talk, but he wished to say how 
delighted he had been with this, his first, visit to Wisconsin. 
The magnificent fields and the quite remarkable show had 
given him new and interesting stories to tell to the small 
farmers of Massachusetts. Hot only, he said, had he found 
material prosperity and success, but great intelligence and 
general information. Excellent schools he found here, among 
the best in the union, and he ventured to attribute their 
excellence largely to the old Hew England character and influ¬ 
ence. The very way in which Hew England emigrants came 
here assured this, in the tender relations which existed between 
father and mother, husband and wife, parent and child. 
The speaker gave a brief resume of the origin and progress 
of the common school system, which has been transplanted to 
Wisconsin, and predicted from it continued thrift and pros¬ 
perity for every community.* More than two hundred years 
ago. Hew England towns, surrounded by a wilderness, made 
grants of land for common school purposes. To these schools 
and their influence he traced the origin of free government in 
America, and the suceess of the revolution. Mr. Flint closed 
by referring again to the remarkable exhibition of the agricul¬ 
turists of Wisconsin this year. 
PRESIDENT CHADBOURNE, OP THE UNIVERSITY. 
President Chadbourne was introduced. He agreed with 
everything which the senator had said about monopolies ; they 
