The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-10-14
AGRICULTURAL DINNER.

AT half past one O'Clock on the day OF the
show, the WORCESTER COUNTY AGRICULTURAL
SOCIETY, with invited guests, dine6 together
at Banister's Hall. Among the latter, were
Harrison Gray Otis, Mayor of Boston, Hon.
Edward Everett, Representative in Congress
! from Middlesex Gen. II, A. S. Dearborn, Pres
ident of the Massachusetts, Horticultural Soei-
ETY., and John C. Gray, Esq, and Hon. John
Welles, Trustees of the Massachusetts Agricui-
tural Society. Gov. Lincoln, as President of
the Society, presided at the table, The dinner
is well spoken of, by those who partook oft
and we believe that the whole of this part of
the exercises of the day went off with an unus-
ual degree of satisfaction. Addresses appro.
pirate to the occasion, accompanied with suita-
BILE toasts, were made by Messrs. Otis, Everett,
Gray, and Dearborn. The following are some
of the toasts.
J Cattle Shoes and Agricultural Societies.
Like the influence of good men on society,
they are felt in the improvement and ameliora-
ton around them rather than seen in imposing
efforts and splendid results.
Rotation Of good Crops-never obtained by
succession of raao hands.
Modern Fashion-whch puts an acre into a
bonnet and a small farm into pair of large
sleeves, no wonder folks find it hard times
when it takes land to pay for gelo ga,os,
H0TttcdLture and AgricuLture-Sisters of
the same family; the elder most delicate and
| lady like, has come to grace the parlor, while
the younger is still content to provide neces-
saries for the family.
The City Of BOston-its liberal Institutions
and Its honored Men. We would seek an i'm
proved means of communication with it for the
advancement of a mutual interest, and lncreas-
ed facilities to intercourse with her citizens, for
the promotion ofOur OSon enjoyment.
When the above toast was given, Mr.. Otis
rose and addressed the company in that felci-
tous and appropriate manner for which he is so
peculiarly distinguished. He concluded by
offering the following sentiment, which was re-
ceived with great applause
The substantial Yeomanry of the Countg of
J Forester
Princes and Kings may flourish or NAV fade,
! A breath may make them, as breath has made,
But bold yeomanry-their countrYs pride,
! When once destroyed can never be supplied
The neighbOriHg County Of yuiddlesea, with
whose society of Husbandmen now engaged in
1 the celebration of their own anniversarv,-we
recprocate the congratulations of the occasion
| In former times we took part Of their terri
tory to make up our own proportions. We re-
joice in the opportunity of exhibiting in the
/ presence ofther distinguished Representatives,
fruits of the fidelity with which we have cult
waited it.
When this toast was given the Hon. E. Ev-
erett rose and made the following address:
Mr.. President,-It is my duty, as well on my
own behalf, as on that of the Agricultural So
ciety to which you have alluded, of which am
a member, and of the people whom have the
honor TO represent in the National Legislature,
to return grateful Acknowledgement for the
sentiment just pronounced. | may say, with
my friend, the honorable Mayor of Boston, that
| did not. come to this festival, prepared, in
any formal manner, TO recprocate such SEN
timent; and regret that | cannot give YOU
the proof, that like him, | am even when I'M
prepared, prepared the most. Allow me, there
fore, in the plainest way, to give utterance to
the most obvious feelings, which have been in
spired by what we have this day heard and wit
messed. Courtesy might dictate TO an individ-
ual from another county, attending here by in
vtatlon, to propose a sentiment conveying a
wish for something tending TO the prosperity
and advantage of the citizens of the town or
county of Worcester. But really, Sir, YOU
seem already to have every thing about you,
lbuL HedII Can uesiTo' He Villdge you lnnaDit
seems to unite the advantages and the attrac-
tons both of city and country-a sort of ur6s
IN rure. 1t is the capital of county, certain
y among the first agricultural districts of New
England; and whore we have Just been told,
that digging in the soil is the surest way of
doubling your capital. 1t is connected by a
line of artificial navigation, with an exceeding
ly enterprising commercial metropolis ON the
seaboard, destined trust to growth and pros
perity proportional to her enterprise. And on
this line of artificial communication, are found
the greatest facilities for the pursuit of the va
rious branches of manufacturing industry.
Thus combining within yourselves such advan-
tages in reference to the three great interests
what is there left for you to desire or me to
wish for you,--n reference to the temporal
source of good' and what more naturally sug-
gested, than the wish, that these three great
interests may here, and in every part Of our
country, be found in happy connection with
each other / am gratiied with the belief,
that this community is of the same feeling, and
is friendly to that policy and those measures,
which aim to bring the several interests, and
the remote sections of the country into closer
union for the good of all AS citizen of that
part of the Commonwealth, which, in some re-
spects has been usually considered to have the
advantage of position, / am almost led, BY the
state Of things here, to advance as an argument
in favor Of the great railroad enterprise, not
that it will give to land in the remotest parts of
the Commonwealth the value of that near Bos-
ton, but that it will make our lands as valuable
as yours
Sir, beg leave to proposc--The great inter
! estS Of the State,-ARriculture Commerce,