miERNATIOML EXHIBITION OF 1862 . 
REPORT. 
His Excellency^ Edward Salomon, 
Governor of the State of Wisconsin: 
Sir :—The grand conception of a gathering of the represen¬ 
tative products and people of all lands under one roof had its 
origin in the noble mind of His Eojal Highness, the late, la¬ 
mented Prince Albert, who thus, by his unselfish reaching 
forward for the best good, not of his own country alone, but of 
the race, has marked the beginning of a new era in the history 
of civilization. 
The Exhibition of 1851, with its wonderful Crystal Palace, 
so vast and so magnificent that even to him who has gazed up¬ 
on it, and traversed its great aisles and lofty galleries, it per¬ 
sists in seeming like a creation of the fancy, impossibly real— 
its wilderness of no less marvellous objects, brought to¬ 
gether from every clime—its multitudes of wondering peo¬ 
ple of all kindreds and tongues,—all these have swept past 
us like a great panorama to be dreamily remembered. But the 
results of that Exhibition are substantial and permanently 
beneficent. Hot by court representatives, with diplomatic 
phrase and sinister intent, but of and for themselves the nations 
there met and in native truth and sincerity saluted each other 
as brothers and joined hands for the progress of the world. 
It was hardly possible that such an exhibition as that should 
be without successors. Kivalry is often a good seconder of 
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