Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-09-27
THE WORLDS EXHIBITION.
U. 8. OFFICE ISDusrRIAL ExHIBITIoS,
LONDON, SEPrEMBRR IL. 1851.

y. .. OPFICE INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION,
LONDON, SEPTEMBRR IL, 1851.
Sra In my last letter to you expressed opinion that
in the award Of premiums the close Of the Exhibition no
would stand better than the United States Having had oc-
casion since the date Of that letter confer in person with
the charmen Of most Of the Jures Of Awards while am
not at liberty reveal what may have been con6ded to me-
am at the time desrous Of saying that all have
has served to show that that opinion stands upon sub
sania ground The contributors from our country, as
body will have to complain that injustice has been
done them Every article n division has been repeat
edy examined The merits Of every invention have been
clearly understood The improvements have made ia
machinery have been readily acknowledged The excellence
We have attained in any branch of the en-
HANGED value that and culture have given the products
Of our SOIL and the superiority have claimed over the rest
Of the world in MATERIAL will be found have been
fairly accorded u.s. Had we united as people with all
our strength represent fully what our industrial condition
really is had the incentive to find an outlet for the
surplus products of labor which other nations felt have
moved forward in competition and under the stimulus Of
that incentive had levied tribute upon every branch Of
honest and honorable and Independent labor our land to
fully meet the requsion Of tie worlds public sentiment
here~he in skill, in that excellence of workmanship
which consists only in continuous and uninesen toll we
ingenuity, in the results Of labor guided by thought and in
the application Of grea. principles to the useful arts we
should without dispute have carried of the palm As is
showing after ALL with whatever of excellence we have
brought The water, true exponent real indus
trial condition. shall stand we'll when all the accounts Of
the Great Exhibition summed up and the results d.
vided among oil concerned.
II any portion Of the American articles shall be found
last to have failed Of proper appreciation fear will be
in dentsy-an art in which, BY universal acknowledgment,
supass the world The for my apprehension of
this to be found mainly in the inability sad naenton
Of part Of the jury having the examination Of dentists in
rumen,s and work in charge In the original classification
OF objects in the building to be examned-a classification
which, with some few alterations adopted by the Royal
Commssioners-dentisty entirely overlooked. This
classification, must be remembered, all theoretical and
prospecve that is made long prior the completion
OF the building, and upon supposon that various kinds Of
articles would be sent for exhibition Dr. PLArrAIR seems
never to have bad thought upon the subject Of dentistry
and having made provision for specifically il was forced
to be placed in charge Of sudbury upon surgical instru
mens. class x upon which there neither dentist
dental instrument maker. DR.. THoNAs CHADsoU
the United States juror upon this Glass; exerted himself the
utmost to call the attention Of his coaduos the eIceence
and variety Of exhibition Of dentistry, but either from
of appreciation Of the subject from strong precon-
ceved opinions in favor Of European work, or from indf
ference their duties manifest among the members Of no
other jury, he failed, be thinks to accomplish bis purpose
Whether be is 10 his opinion not will be known
when the awards made public.
Meanwhile is but justice say that neither ia the Eng
ish French divisions, nor, in fact in the department Of
any country represented here, ia there any attempt what
could b. considered any kind Of competition with srhib
lions in articles Of dentistry Il h Of course, impossible