EXHIBITION—ANNUAL ADDRESSES. 
139 
ral pursuits, and a man’s dignity and importance is increased if 
he has a country seat. The Englishman will sell his town 
house, but never his country house. Beyond all other people 
they have shown a love for rural life. Bight across the chan¬ 
nel there is another people who seek that excitement and 
form of life which they find in cities. But we find that 
through the whole course of this people it has marked their 
character and policy. 
We find to-day that the principal cause of the peril which 
threatens France is that wheu its cities fall its country perishes. 
We see that Frenchmen despise the country, Englishman love 
it, and Americans tolerate the country, but don’t love it. We 
are a peo*ple who buy farms, when we can profitably, and sell 
them again when we think it to our advantage. 
In order that agriculture may flourish it should have the 
sympathy of the people. But the tendency among American 
people as soon as they accumulate a little means, is to go to 
the towns, and when they accumulate a little more, to go to 
the cities, and when they get a little wealth, they go abroad and 
spend more than $20,000,000 a year, and that in coin, too, 
among other people.” 
The governor referred, in closing, very eloquently to the fact 
that George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, 
Daniel Webster, and other great and illustrious men were very 
much attached to rural scenes, and clung with great tenacity 
to their country homes in the decline of life. 
ADDRESS OF HON. HORACE AUSTIN, GOVERNOR OF MINNESOTA. 
Governor Austin was happy to be present at one of the 
greatest fairs ever held in the northwest; happy to see so fine 
a display of the fruits and results of the industrial efforts of the 
people of the great state of Wisconsin, and glad to see so great 
an interest felt in the all absorbing subject of agriculture. But 
he was strongly impressed with the idea advanced by Gov. 
Seymour, yesterday, that there is too much of a sameness in 
the pursuits and occupations of western farmers; that there is 
