Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1845-10-16


Mercantile Journal gives a very glowing descriP-
ton Of the festival.
Edward Everett closed a speech descriptive Of
his VOYAGE homeward, after an absence Of four or
five years, as follows:
Ladies and gentlemen: l cannot say much TO
YOU this evening. l need repose bodily and mem
tal, and would gladly find it in listening to the elo
quent voices Of those around me. Some painful
feelings crowd upon me. / heard at Halifax the
news Of an event which has deprived us this even
ing of the presence of one, whose countenance was
the light Of every circle he entered; whose death
will be felt, not in America alone, as public ca
iamity; from whose long tried friendship had
promised myself a cordial welcome on my return
Allow me, sir, the qualification and soaec OF being
listener; and let me only express the hope, that
after more than FIVE years absence, during which
period, time, 4 dare say, has been doing his work
on the outer man, you will lind the inner man I'M
changed in all that you honored with your in
dulgent and friendly regard, aud 10 assure you that
return with no wish or ambition but 10 engage
with YOU in the performance Of the duties Of good
citizen In the hope Of sharing with you the enjoy
ment Of the prosperity with which gracious Prov
idence has been pleased to bless our fair land"
After Mr. Everett had closed, the President
nounced--
" The MarshfeH Fdrmer-'All head in council,
all wisdom in speech-aways ready to defend the
soil, and to make the soil more and more worth
defending"
To which the Hon. Daniel Webster rose and
said
"Ladies and gentlemen; There far better
farmers in Marshfeld than am, but as see none
of them present, suppose am bound TO take the
compliment to myself
Mr. President, / had the honor Of partaking in
the origin and organization Of this Society, and
you will bear me witness that it was then dear
among those who co-operated in that organization,
no one was more assiduous effective than that
great man whose departure has Just been so feel
ingly alluded to. II has so happened that since
that time the circumstances and pursuits OF my
life have rendered it impossible for me to be pres
ent at many Of your meetings, yet have seen with
pleasure and delight the continued progress of the
insttation.
Mr. President, as it has been said from the Chair
and in the sentiments around the table, il is our
fortune'in New England to live beneath some
what rugged sky and till somewhat hard and I'M
Welding earth; but something OF hardness, OF unia-
vorable condition and circumstances seem neces-
sary TO excite human genius, labor and skill, and
bring forth the results most useful and honorable
to man. greatly doubt whether all the uxuriance
of the tropics and all that grows under the feryid
sky of the equator, can equal the exhibition OF
flowers made to-day, amid these northern ATTITUDES.
Here there is all the brilliancy Of color, aud oil
the gorgeous display of tropical regions; but there
the display is made in swamps and jungles abound
ing in noxious reptiles lit is not the result Of cu-
tiyaton, taste and human labor working on the ca
paclty of nature.
Sir, | congratulate you that our flowers are not
-"born 10 blush unseen,
And their sweetness the desert air."
The botany we cultivate, the productions Of the
business of horticulture, the plants of the garden
are cultivated with u.s. by hands as delicate as their
own tendrils viewed by countenances as spotess
and pure as their own pearls, and watched by ewes
as brilliant and fulof lustre as their own beautiful
exhibitions Of splendor. (Applause)
Horticulture is pursuit Of natural science in
which all sexes, ages, and degrees of education and
refinement unne Nothing is too polished TO see
Ine beauty OF mowers, no'nng 700 1ougn 20 DC ca,
tat;ah,s al \, soa,s ha cor,nnn so,d vhere
every degree ofstas,e and refinement NAV unite and
find opportunities for their qualification.
Mr. Pres;den, will take the occasion IN accord
., - ILt S,e. ~ H.
70 'ne sentiment Vi the honoiaOle 0e0'e'"! VI "e
Oommonwea''h' ana cehs,a'u,"e you upon Tue re-
urn Vi OUT worm! "iehu WIN mas JUS. sPoAo",
lie hnds here no enemy ana IN the exnloltlon oil
the talent which he possesses of his classical learn
inc and his ponular oratory he finds only one rival
but very dangerous rival; if he maintains the
competition with that rival he has nothing to fear,
and that rival is his own reputation.
MT PRESIDENT; we VINO oelong 10 tue class Of iaI-
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haioaa. "n' ~ &C. aS shon ~, ,,a"s.ss ho
vond The hounds of reason and Justice if saw that
there could nowhere no,phere be more perfect and
tasteful exhibition of horticultural products than
we have witnessed in this town the present week.