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the Annual Address by Hon. Cassius M. Clay, of Kentucky, 
on Friday, at the same hour. The former was highly appro¬ 
priate to the occasion, and the latter a noble and masterly 
demonstration of the applicability of the sciences to the busi¬ 
ness of farming. 
Mr. Clay is one of the most successful farmers in the Union, 
and the notoriety of this fact gave additional weight and influ¬ 
ence to his earnest and eloquent words. He spoke from brief 
notes, and for two hours held the vast multitude who eagerly 
pressed to hear, spell-bound by the power of his logic and the 
magic eloquence of his oratory. 
The eminent success of the Fair, in all its departments, was 
but another evidence of' the growing interest among the people, 
and a new encouragement to the friends of enterprise and 
progress to persevere in their efforts for the advancement of 
the industrial interests of our State. 
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BY nON, J. F. WILLARD, PRESIDENT OF THE SOCIETY. 
Gentlemen of the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society , and 
'Fellow Citizens: 
We are not here to-day to celebrate victories obtained 
in war, nor yet those of a successful political campaign ; but 
one more glorious than either—the achievements of Agriculture 
and the Mechanic Arts !—the victory of mind over matter— 
of intelligence over ignorance—of industry over idleness. 
But a few short years have elapsed since the territory now 
