The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-10-24

From hs Now York sun.
Z gx#s Greene Ceaasy Aszsculsus.l E~is. ~
This unusually interesting annual fair held on th
25lh September last Al Windham Centre Greene county
and a which i've thousand people assembled witness
the varied and abundant productions OF agriculture an'
art and % lake part an the interesting exercises OF the oc
casion. ID. x. 0nsy, esq, delivered an able address
which will be elsewhere published while we confns
ourselves to the impromptu and original speech o. Co
Zadoc Pratt, who was present. and called oul wnhou
preparation, Our report Of the speech s impsiesl ana
does pot BY any means Dc justice 70 either iqi iIau y
az delighted auditory have ssai al Pratt would
himself furnish with bis speech wren gu. 1u. as ns
s moi come forward lay il before our readers as y
I~mrs AND ersrIsars. /, gives me grsa, pleasure
meet with YOU on Interesting OCCASION TO rejoice with
S: wa1 q ss & s and each
lord Of and upright not only the
man but the also. with the sons and daughters
Of home indus,ry and inherent Independence speak i
proudly have stood before more substantial and
United States this witness cheeruly, for 10 your
As your speaker has alluded 10 the tanner il would
that cannot do less than how useful he has
been the farmer rather what he has done for the
farmer and If may be allowed say law OF Pov
dsncs that hs who worke,h for himself wisely wokeh
for mankind When frs, came among (neariy hiy
years sgo) through ds hemlocks bad roads, with bur
low nhab,,sns my parents settled ia Windham--what i
now called Lexineon They taught me 70 70 70 ee me-
on iooi. every Sabbath. aud il before had tanned
enough leather These early Sabbath exercises on
and secured nv attention those
jects which all both here and here
asr Blessed the bareloo,ed boys who are seen going
up the Sabbath schools for OF snch will come the
rulers and aw-makers ofa tree and Christian people
thus learned early think and act for myself and this
thinking for yourselves will hurt none Of you my young
hearers ,,,a..., ;,h..,,.,. /,
one town. since divided into six towns aud now number
Ing nearly Of The % o ha a.s a md b
proud Of such people, and copet them as
had 70 back grain twenty miles gst mill support
stAeir families after having worked al low wages 70 earn i
thirty miles to Exchange Il for corn. pork aud potatoes
They could not buy on cred-so poor was old Windham
Bur now look around and behold hundred pairs Of
come from these towns g This lair and they will com
bany. We have here view all the substantial evidence
Of our abundant prosperity resulting from the free and en-
people whose and religious principles be vouchcd
for BY the ministers ofhe gospel From one Westinghouse
hemlock forest have arisen beautiful towns, splendid vii
lagos. and princey farmers, who have reared oheeru
come the better half hereafter a .lmore siuent
in,sieent community To you, fair daughters, who now
grace fair by presence after having adorned and
cmbelished with yonr works Of TASTE skin, and industry
will b ne q sss s sSa
Is mothers, Tor all hat Is exalted and emo
II og ~ aa,
here, we should be thrown back to the dismal and drear,
And now win show you the advantages these drear,
hemocks have been the farmers of our mountain towns
poy over fifteen thousand years Of other mems labor Al
army Of over thirty thousand men have employed; and
have paid those for their labor alone million
five hundred thousand dollars have cleared tel
thousand of land used hundred thonsan.
cords hemlock bark and paid halt million Of dol
lars used and five hundred horses and
thousand oxen used two hundred thousand bushels o
oats hundred and thousand OF hay thirty
thousand barrels Of pork and beef and nearly hundred
thousand barrels Of flour, and potatoes without number
measure. f@. a
6"I have tanned million two hundred and ftl
thousand sides of leather my disbursements owe
Ave thousand dollars per day. and have used in bust
here millions OF dollars Every laboer re
ceived his moneyyea, every man his penny--in peace
and. the credit OF this community be IL said that
had side Of leather stolen, and chosen defend
In law Of my business transactions durin
my residence among YOU The great object OF living is
be useful Live with your neie hbor, and not on him
Allow me- gentlemen and ladies, conclude by coDgrau
lang you upon the rich blessings Of health, power
prosperity which surround you and succeeding ger
crations do much you have towards national wea
and industry which the safeguards Of independ
snce 70
vote OF thanks was passed amid the general JOY
rejoicing OF Col Prats friends and neighbors numbering
over four thousand persons.