Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1843-10-13
VOL. X.-NO. 7.

L am aware that the glitter and the glare,
and the trappngs of city are exceedingly
captivating to the sons and daughters of the
farmers. But allow me, from long ex-
perence, to tell them that these things are
deceptive. have mingled much in the
hustle aud in the business of the world.
have met within the granite walls and mas
sire pillars upon the floors of the great COM
norcial Exchanges in our Atlantic cities.
those who go down TO the sea in ships, and
the produce dealer from every cline in our
land, and from foreign climes yet let me
tell them there is no portion of my life
upon which L reflect with more animation,
or with as much solid satisfaction as that
which was spent around the secluded ham
let, where saw the loving Mother and the
darling Sister, make haste to boil the pot
in preparing the homely repast to refresh
the weary laborer as he returned from the
ngathering of the ripened harvest, or from
the subduing of the sturdy forests.
Mr.. President, having paid my respects to
Albany, again return to Western New
York and when reflect upon the great
and wonderful change this country has I'M
dergone within my own personal observation
all of which has been achieved by the
product of agricuture-I am almost COM
PEELED TO refer to some written or printed
documents of times that are passed, to make
me believe my own eyes. For can it be
that have seen the Western country while
1t was yet trackless wilderness-and then
seen its forests dotted all over with log cab
ins, whose ascending smoke gave the only
evidence oftheir locaiion-and now behold
it, DER spread with waving fields, teeming
with the most luXuriant harvests, covered all
over with elegant farm houses and splendid
mansions nay, seen it studded with Cities
and Villages, whose towering spires give
evidence TO the beholder that the inhabitants
are people who worship the God of Heav-
en-, and give thanks to Him who moistens
the earth with His refreshing showers, and
tempers the winds to the shorn lambs.
Can it be moreover, that have since seen
all the trade and commerce of Western
New York carried on by few six horse
teams before canal had been thought of!
| would hardly believe it if had not had
the honor of driving six noble chargers be-
fore one of those big wagons for more than.
three years iii doing this very thing but
having done that, and then afterwards hav-
ing dipped up the waters Of Erie with my
own hands and IN company with the noblest
specimen Of human kind, the immortal
CLINTON, conveyed them TO the Atlantic
Ocean in the first boat that ever passed
from the lakes to tide water, ] am constrain-
ed TO admit that it is all matter of fact.
And now whom contract tho presant uti.
the past, and reflect IN condition with TINS
grand canal, an iron road has been con-
slructed along IFS margin, which regardless
alike Of the towering mountains, the lofty
hills or deepest valleys, conveys the travel
Ter, as it has me at this time, from Albany
to Rochester, as it were by the sunlight of
a September day. cannot but feel that
have lived in a most extraordinary and in
teresting period. And if it is not out of
place to quote the inspired writings on such
an occasion as this, | would exclaim as did
Simeon of DID, and thank God that l have
not only been allowed TO hear of these things,
by the hearing of the ear, but mine eyes
; have beheld them.