Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-01-29
WORCESTER DAILY SPY:
WEDNESDAY, January 20, 1851.
-. ,,ra.,a.s industrial E1htbition.

rne vyorId,s industrial Exhibition.
The Worlds industrial Exhibition, which is t
,ole Mace at London in 1851, is not only an inter
estiug circumstance in the history OF hunanity' bu
;she evidence of an universal moral and social rev
oIution
Whom we review the origin of this grand idea o
world industrial exhibition when we reflect up
n, the estate Of the men who proposed it, and wh'
h,va l,bored TO perfect it and when we look at the
purpose and objects intended by it, our minds be-
come filed with the conviction that The age OF
Elise chivary has departed, to the shades OF ever
,,s,;,r darkness and thata new and nobler era has
da,vned upon the world. Kings and arlstooracies
tho representatives of the older chivalry. The
first king was military chief; the first arstocrat-
les were his body guard. These mighty gentlemen
,bouuht it beneath them to labo,. They turned up
their lordly noses, and called the laborer e mean
hind" "b base piIlain,'' and " rile mechanic. y
They dwet in great towers, wore iron caps upon
their heads lived by theft and glorihed themselves
as great men who scorned to labor.
This worlds exhibition seems to us to be SUI
blime protest against the homicidal practices that
first nut men on thrones; and clothed with glory the
customs of barbarous age.
1t is purely republican demonstration 1t Is
meeting of all the great in inventive genius, and in
austrial art 1t is a competition of those who have
done most good to their fellow men, and who by
their bene6cient Thoughts and indomable industry,
have most advanced the true interests of society.
The swarthy Cingalese will be there, with the
nearIs that he has taken from the deep sea and
with the sIken fabrics that he has woven IN his
rudelv constructed LOOM And the workman OF
Cashmere will display with pride, the beautiful
shawls that have rendered his country more famous
than ever Xerxes or Darius made 1t. And the
Turkish weaver shall bring carpets, of the softest
texture. and the brightest dyes, such as the great
Salidan with all his power never could make and
the nations of Europe, from the Bosphorus to Ice
land, that Ultima Thule Of the ancients, will meet
with the products of their workshops, and looms
and Brother Jonathan will be sthar " too, with
his own unrivaied inventions f.; with his water gas
machine, and his iron tailor, and his improvements
on every mechanical instrument that has been ln-
vented since the days Of Tubal-Cain. And there
will be no murder done at this meeting OF the he
roes of the new chivalrics age. There will be no
widows and orphans made miserable no helds
laid waste, no roof trees burnt down, no hearth
stones stained with blood no fair city converted into
a bowling wilderness, where the hungry dogs bay
the meaning winds they disturb them at their re-
past upon the human dead.
obor uior;our honost of pnt labor sal III
alone be represented at this sublime meeting of the
nations The men of invention like James Watt
of Scotland like Claude jacquard of France
like Fulton and Paine Of America Willie there and
the brawny artizan with his sinewy arm, that has
never welded anything less honorable than hammer
or shuttle, will be there and the pale mechanic
with his thoughtful eyes, and cunning fingers, that
have clothed mankind with beautiful ramen will be
there and the stalwart husbandmaD, who drives
the team a6eld !; and the adventurous miner who
dives down into the bowels Of the earth, III search
of minerals and metals and the dauntless sailor,
who braves the dangers of the ocean, to carry from
shore TO shore the products Of the world these will
all meet in concord and unity, and bending before
the throne of the genius of Industrial art, shall in
augurate the morning of the good time coming
There is something to awaken all the enthusiasm of
the human soul in view of this most magnificent re-
union of the workingmen of all nations.
Hitherto the great spectacles of the world have
been reunions of kings and courters and warriors
Hitherto the pages of history have been filled with
the names of the Alexanders, Caesars, Tamerlanes,
OLD nd 9th al
mankind. But this Exhibition will be reunion, of
the peaceful sons Of labor and from this time
henceforth their names will supersede, in the annals
of nations, those of ilustrious destroyers and ben
Efficient labor shall henceforth be regarded as the on
ly true basis Of glory