Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1845-10-30

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PERHAPS it is difficult to say precisely why it is
that exhibitions like this we have witnessed, should
afford us so much pleasure. The first and obvious
reason doubtless is that all that is beautiful and
perfect OF its kind delights us. Had We seen them
any where in the hands OF strangers aud seen them
separately, each Of these specimens which have
been gathered here, would alone and for its own
sake have given US satisfaction. All beauty peases
US; and. so far as we know, it pleases only.
Man alone Of all the visible creation, is authorized
to appreciate and enjoy it, He alone Of all the
creatures the earth look on beauty of any
kind and say this was made for me. The very ex-
istence then of beauty here on earth, is message
ofkndness from Him who made it. II is to man
if the single tenant Of desert island were sud
denly TO hear a voice conversng with him, or were
to see before him friendly letter addressed TO hni
self, and speaking to him of his own thoughts and
wishes But away with all comparisons, they
weaken the simple truth itself Beauty here on
earth is the voice of the Great Spirit. Ii calls on
man to separate himself in idea from the angels
above him and the brutes below him, and to come
forth and contemplate something made for him
alone. 1t says, this have created for thee and
for thee alone No wonder then, that we can look
aud enjoy.
know not how il may be with others. but with
me there is another reason why love to look on
these rival products Of thousand farms-each
Of them good in itself, is proof of other good
each one ofihem is measuraby token that there
is comfort and happiness at the home from which
il came. These things which we have seen have
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are not apt TO come from the household of want or
the residence of vice | like at any rate TO imag-
inc when ! look on the forehead OF the bull-the
proud patriarch Of the future herd-ihat see hang
ing there not merely the ticket Of his number in
the inventory, but the motto, all is right on our
homestead Then again the honest would
seem 10 chew the cud and consider aud give me
his deliberate aud well-motured opinion, that his
owner is the right sort of man kind master, a
hearty, whole-soued feeder. and for biped, one
ofthe best he ever knew. Here too is the mild
contemplatve cow-the picture Of benevoence and
content. She too has come here for prize I!
But it was no ambition Of hers was the project
Of her master and mistress. She knows that they
are her prize and she is theirs and she wishes all
who doubt it, to Just step into the dairy room
Welcome, then, four-looted ffiendsl fellow NOR
tails p You have each told something Of the
home you have eh among the mountains. Our
hearts are better for having seen you; come again
next year and bring your families.
Then again, here are the specimens of house,
hold arts What 6reside history is told by every
one of them. How each one Of them has written
on it the word mother daughter, sister, or
t.,c Ho,p n,,,cL he thonuhts flo lrnm tham n
the picture Of blazing hearth, aud winter eve
ming. We may well view them with respect, for
they come here the delegates from hundred homes.
like these meetings for The favorable view they
give not only of the beasts but the men. In all 9TH
er contests there is mixture Of evil in all other
strife there is an alloy Of envy. Here all are vic
tors-alI are happy even in being outdone.
like these meetings because they invite our
thoughts to the contemplation of the future. And
how much is included in that same word future, as
applied to Agriculture. We have right to reason
of the future from the past. We may reasonably
infer that such things as have happened viii occur
again and il we look at the other arts VIC shall
find all their great movements have sprung from
the application of their kindred sciences. Let Us
take an instance LET us go back few centuries
and look at certain light piece Of steel, which il
was found would point to the North after being
rubbed with another piece Of the same metal
What has this to do with the discovery of America
Does any one pretend that the destinies of a cont.
nent are swinging on this well-balanced toy = Yet
such has been the fact That piece of steel broI
Columbus to our shores. Il was that little trembling
guide that enabled him 10 find for himself, and lo
mark down on parchment for others, his precise
path across the ocean. The waves Of the mid At
antic from the morning Of tbeir creation had been
rolling in silence six thousand years they hac
kept their sullen secret to themselves. This piece
of steel has revealed their mystery TO all coming
ages, That piece of steel was the Destiny of thi
Western World; il has peopled our shores ant
built our cities; it has created a commerce which
has altered the face Of the earth; il has made dis
tont nations neighbors TO each other it has giver
TO the paupers Of the nineteenth century more o
the physical comforts Of life than had England
monarchs in the twelfth And il has done all this
not then cease to be idle and to die, but the piec,
Of steel is still at work, and now after three humid
red years have passed away as If to remind us o
Columbus and that first atlantic chart, it still lin
! gers on his track aud GENES again to the West anC
whispers another of its revelations in the ear Of ou
countryman, Morse Magnetism is at this momen
maturing one of its results, the magnitude of which
is as difficult of conception or calculation as an!
that have gone before