Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-10-30

yentured TO soy that after the great of d
pendence and liberty believed that the doors of Famed
Hall opened for object of greater imnof
to the city and the State On the 18th of April oo
ing had the exquisite satisfaction Of putting nv nan
TO the act authorizing subscription the part of
Commonwealth for million of dollars of the cant
stock Of the road There was talk of attempting To
consider the bill after had passed its last stage
you might well have tried to reconsider law Of Cyr
the Elder The bill in the Council Chamber and
proved before the ink dry with which it sgne
by the President Of the Senate Some persons said VI
were extravagant-that we were bankraptng the tres
sury--that we were laying mortgage every farm Il
the State. Sir, believe that those who thought and
said these things quite sincere in their opinions
wiii only say differed from them On the 3D. of Octo
Der, 1889, we opened the road to Springfield; it has
since been continued to Albany 1t has cost dollar
10 the public or to any individual except what has been
paid In virtue Of voluntary subscription it is paving
seven or eight per cent interests yields the treasury
handsome income the investment, and believe il
quite within bounds say that il is eyery wear If or
lives adding million Of dollars to the income Of the c
zens Of this Commonwealth. mortgage on every farm
Why Mr. President if you or could pocket the amount
OF all the mortgages which have been lifted from the farms
Of this State in consequence of the enhanced value thew
have derived from this great work we could afford to paw
the whole cost Of the railroad from Long meadow to North
held and have pretty surplus 60 up into YER
mont and down into Connecticut. nT .i
But must pass from this to the last cause which
shall mention materially conducting to the
Of our husbandry 1t has been glanced the report
from the Committee Manufactures to which we have
large scale of of the other great branches of in
dustry, viz manufactures This has operated in favor
OF our husbandry in many ways. 1t dminshes the
number Of competitors in the production while multi
plies the mouths for the consumption of the fruits Of the
earth. 1t brings effective demand for agrcutu-
raj produce to the farmers door Without interfer-
ing with any controverted points Of political economy
may say without fear of contradiction that the most
prosperous state of society is that where all the great
branches OF industry successfully carried side by
SIDE feeding clothing supplying, and thus sustaining
each other Whoever has observed the change that
taken place in State within thirty years in the
immediate neghborhood of the large manufacturing esab
lishments at Waltham, Cabotville Lowell, Lawrence,
can estimate the justice of these remarks. Paradoxcal
as 1t may sound it is the neghboring farmer who derives
the greatest benefit from large manufacturing establish
men 1t has been calculated that in the aggregate the
capitalist has not realized six per cent upon his
featuring investments but the creation Of new markets
for agricultural produce has given value land which
had scarce any value before and greatly increased the
value Of that which previously yielded small income
This region sir, has profted largely in this way, but
is destined to derive still greater benefit intellectually
greater benefit in time to from the growth of
features 1t is not alone by enrchng your meadows
that your noble river contributes your agricultural
prosperity do not undervalue its Importance in this
respect Heaven forbid! know from what magni-
cent range OF country gathers up through hundred
tributaries, the prolific seeds of plenty know sir that
in every bundle of broomcor that IS in your valley
there are elements of growth from the highlands of Cana
da from the green mountains of Vermont from the white
hills of New Hampshire poured down to form the ferti
zng deposte which your glorious Nile annually spreads
upon your lowands But while this agency will continue
to operate to the end of the world there is another by
peans of which the Connecticut river win render still
greater benefits to your husbandry Its rapids and falls
have already become the seats of important manufacture
ing establishments and destined at remote period
to concentrate amount Of productive industry in this
immediate neghborhood beyond any thing to be found
in any other locality speak from bias Of interest
Mr. President when that before the last tns of the
rose Of youth upon the fares cheek in this assembly
gha haua
years before the lad whom at the end of this table
moment since shall have head as grey as NINE there
will be city Of fifty thousand inhabitants at the falls of
Hadey hope that boy will remember what say, and
If some fifty years hence he shall stand where stand
and make speech at the anniversary of this society," let
him say that he remembers how poor old bunker Of
Ex-Governor in 1852 had enough Of young America in
his veins to lift the veil which hides the future enough
at least TO discern the coming fortunes Of Holyoke Sir
as intimated, have interest in the prediction
should not be dollar the poorer if the dam was to
follow the old down stream tomorrow nor a far
thing the richer If by the hand of higher power its
braces and its abuments turned into mass of red
sandstone, as firm that which lies at the basis OF
Mount Hoyoke But say that the seventy weeks in the
book Of Daniel not to be fulfilled than the
prospects Of the city to be realized II was per-
haps begun little too soon, but the population of the
United States will overtake it, 1t be long
start which does not vanish before the growth of
population of "a 000 which doubles itself in twenty
i've years Such DAM such water-power saw
Sir Walter Scott, in Of his poems makes the old
Monk OF Merose say to William OF Deloraine who had
come to get the magic book from the tomb Of the wizard
Warrior I could say to thee
The words that cleft Eildon hills in three, tsat
And bridled the Tweed with curb OF stone"
What the words that cleft Mount Holyoke and
Mount Tom in twain is known only to Him by whom
the everlasting mountains scattered But can
tell you sir the words that have brded the noble river
that flows between them with curb Of stone and have
taught it, instead Of wasting itself the points Of jagged
barren rocks and brawlng lodges to pour through
pous foodgates over the untrng wheels Of productive
industry These mighty words Enterprise, Capital
and Mechanical Skill enterprise to conceive the plan
capital TO furnish the means and engineering skill to ac
compsh the work Ii is these and not the tabled DOW
ers Of necromancy that have planted themselves below
the falls at Hndey have taught the mighty river to ov
backwards from before their gigantic masonry and thus
laid the foundations Of city which win yet with its
suburbs, spread for miles along the bank and be felt in
the enhanced value Of every farm in the county.
But crave your pardon, sir for the length Of my re-
marks. ! end as began, with the expression OF nv
thanks to the company dousy due for the patience
with which you have listened to me; and beg TO offer
you IN resuming my seat, my cordial wishes for the
health and prosperity every individual in this assembly
This speech was frequently interrupted with rapturous
applause and the touching passages brought tears Of adj
miration upon the hardest faces. 4aE 80
NOVEL ExcHAsGE--Carpets have risen apparently
not in price that know Of but from the floors
which they used TO envelope the persops of TIM