New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-10-26
Zen, TalI.nadge's Closing Address at the
Twenty-tllird Annual Fair Of the Amcri-

Zen, TalI.nadge's Closing Address at the
Tyenty-tilird ANIMAL Fair OF the Amcrl-
can Institute.
The Closing Address at the late Fair OF the
American Institute was delivered by Gen JAMES
TALLMADGE at Castle Garden on Wednesday
evening. He congratulated the company upon
meeting with them at another Anniversary and
remarked that it seemed due to those who had
been the friends, patrons and supporters OF the
Institute TO commence by rendering report oil
its finances for their consideration. These FAIRS
were first held, twenty-three years ago, III small
and common room; now they require the use OF
the largest room in America. The receipts from
This wears exhibition had been about S2l 800 and
counting the free tickets given to charitable lnstl-
tutions to Common Schools and others, added
TO those admitted upon payment for their tickets,
there had been Three Hundred Thousand visitors
during the past three weeks. it was matter OF ex-
utati0n that some eighteen different States OF this
Union were there in competition. Among them
the Institute hailed with great satisfaction the
presence OF Virginia, South Carolina, Louisiana
and Texas.
The occasion, continued Gen. I. invites us to
slight retrospect, and seems to make It duty to
submit few isolated remarks on the past and
present condition Of our country.
Holland in her bygone days, as an opening tor
her surplus population colonzed and settled the
now Middle States OF this Union. England
coming from the dark ages was torn asunder by
her intestinal connections. With a miserably
imbecile monarchy, with an unprincipled aristo-
crazy, and q corrupted nobility; with a People
burdened taxed and oppressed with every right
violated and almost every wrong inflicted which
misrule could devise, she sought refuge IN reSl
GUS persecution and the shedding Of blood; In the
beheading OF her kings and in civil wars She,
too, in the tbroes of her affection, undertook colo
nization. The then Southern portion OF this coun.
try was blessed with genial climate and soil
fruitful beyond comparison; surprising IN richness
even the lands of Egypt. The sprouts and scons
Of titled greatness Were established there IN tne
relation OF master and slave, and to produce tor
export, while looking for supplies to imports from
the parent country.
The Eastern portion of this country, now known
as New England was in those days deemed
God-forsaken place-cursed with climate too In
hOspitable for Christian to endure and a soil too
barren to afford for labor anything beyond its mis-
cradle subsistence, The Government, however,
wearied with the cutting of OF heads and at length
convinced of the great truth that the blood OF
the martyrs was the seed OF their Church, gra-
ciously concluded it WAS good enough for Puritans,
and that the good of the parent country thereafter
required only the Punishment and exile OF such
transgressors to such place. The door OF pros
perity was then shut against the Colonies by laws
making it penal otfense to undertake commerce,
or to attempt to manufacture even tor their own
supplies They were required to remain mere
consumers Of supplies for the parent country.
These pecuiarties of origin in the middle and
in the extreme parts of our country, had given
character to the inhabitants shaped their minds,
their habits and their pursuits. 1t has produced
results Of rare and curious diversltics. The fruits
that grew from such diversity OF seeds are yet IN
partial vegetation and mark sequence the
measures and proceedings of the present day.
We are in the full tide of commercial and
agricultural prosperity. Our country, small at
beginning, now covers the whole of America in the
iullneSs OF its power. Our exhibitions OF the pro
ducts Of Domestic Industry stimulate laddabe
ambition, set individuals to study, and awaken a
generous and friendly rivalry.
The speaker could not refrain from urging the
reed Of superior Intelligence and better means OF
education for our Agricultural population We
need Chemistry which shall show the nature OF
soils and OF every crop; which shall prepare fer
tlizing ingredients to augment our productions
and make our soils more prolific. We call Tor a
proportion OF the funds annually appropriated to
Colleges, for the education OF agricultural and me-
chanical students, and those aiming at the pursuits
o practical life. 1t is painful reflect that with
an expenditure of S254,s00 in this State for the
last twelve years only, for Colleges, not single
Institution has been established for the elucida-
ton of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts.
The speaker continued in this strain at some
length bearing with considerable severity upon
the errors of Collegiate education. He concluded
BY reference to number of the Improvements
in Domestic Manufactures.