EXHIBITION—ANNUAL ADDRESSES. 
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ANNUAL ADDRESSES. 
[The annual addresses were extemporaneous, and since their ' 
several authors have not found it convenient to furnish the 
society with approved copies for publication, we are under the 
necessity of re-producing them here as originally reported for 
the Milwaukee dailies.] 
ADDRESS OF EX-GOYERNOR SEYMOUR OF NEW YORK. 
The Hon. Horatio Seymour, who had repeatedly been invited 
to address the society, but had been obliged to decline, being 
on his way home from the region of lake Superior, whither he 
had gone for his health, was induced to tarry at Milwaukee a 
day or two for the purpose of visiting the exhibition; 
which he did on Wednesday, the 27th of September. 
He was warmly greeted by the thousands of people present, 
and at ten o’clock, in response to an urgent request from the 
officers of the society, made an able and eminently practical 
speech, of which the following is a substantially correct report: 
Ladies and Gentleman: In traveling from my home through¬ 
out the great northwestern states, I have been struck not only 
with the diversity of the agriculture of our country, but also 
with the great differences in the grade of prosperity which 
farmers of our country enjoy in different sections. When I 
left my own home in New York, I left them prosperous, in the 
enjoyment of foreign markets and all of them engaged profit¬ 
ably in their pursuits, but when I come into this section of 
our country, blest as it is with soil so fertile and advantages so 
great, I find a very considerable degree of depression, and the 
question naturally arises in our mind, Why is this? What 
makes this difference in the condition of agriculture in differ¬ 
ent portions of our country. 
