Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-07-23

TnEoDonE SEDdwIoK Esq, the President of the Asso-
citation, presided After the cloth was removed the fol-
lowing tOasts were given:
| l, The President Of the United States
| 2. The Senate Of the United States.
g. The Governments Of Foreign Nations which have
contributed to our Exhibition.
T. Prince Albert the originator of the Great Industrial
Exhibition of 1851.
5. The Foreign Commissioners who have honored US
| this day with their presence.
6. The Governor Of the State OF New York
| Z. The Governors Of our sister States.
s. The Commissioners from the other States Of the
| Union.
| 0. The Fraternity of Nations.
| TO- The City Of New York.
| H. The Arts of Peace
H. The Judiciary.
| 13 The Army and Navy Of the United States.
| H. The American Institute and its kindred Pioneers in
| the cause Of American Industry.
Is. The Press.
Mr. SEDowIcK introduced the toast to the President
in few happily remarks in which he alluded
to the sentiment Of loyalty that general and
apervading, and spoke of the affection of AMERICANS
for the UNION in that drew forth great applause
The PRESIDENT responded as follows:
Mr.. President and gentlemen: In responding to the
sentiment you have pronounced, my thoughts,
TESS, dwell upon circumstance which mars-and, far
know the only circumstance that does mar-the fes
tivties of this joyous occasion aude to the illness
and absence Of Lord Ellesmere Gratifed all are
that he came how much has that qualification been
HANGED by the fact that he not alone but that his
family graced and honored the Inauguration Of your Ex
hibition by their presence.
am should hardly be excused if to fail
here to refer TO gentleman who has paid country
and counnymen many pleasant compliments-more, l
have sometimes thought than we deserved gentleman
who if his reputation depended merely upon the cuya-
ton Of SCIENCE would occupy proud emnence among its
deyoees But his fame rests upon broader and amper
bassupon this that he has himself contributed largely
to the amount of useful human knowledge As Illus
tration Of what this Exhibition was likely to do,
very much impressed by what Sir Charles Lycll himself
told meha eminent inventor and machinst discover
ed, upon visiting the workshops of Lowell, that while
they accomplished in the working Of iron in hour
what it takes US five TO perform, yet in the cutting Of
wood the advantage is just as great in favor of
chinery; striking fact when it is remembered that the
United States and England now with the wonderful
application Of steam only nine or ten days apart While
return grateful Acknowledgements to all the Gov
ernments and Nations here represented do not all hearts
unite with in the expression of the hope that the only
rivalry which may spring up between them and
shall be the rivalry of earnest determined steady effort
promote the elevation of the race and peace and good
| neighborhood among nations and men? Applause
Mr. SEDowIcK reminded the company that the PaEsI-
not there alonethere gentlemen standing
around him who assisted him in his arduous public du
ties and who had also done them the honor to be
at their Inauguration and their festival He then
cessiyely toasted Mr.. GUTHRIE and Mr. DAVIS.
Mr. GUTHRIE said: Fellow though have been
pubic speaker for nearly forty never abash
cd before. What from the banks Of the Ohio
new State offer here to this assembage in commemora-
ton OF the industry Of all nations In commentator of
the arts of peace the merits Of and political
tment the extension Of commerce. the extension Of ag
culture the extension Of manufactures the extension
arts and sciences have nothing to say but to offer you
the example Of my countrymen. In the arts Of agrcu
ure they have feed forests and made cultivated fields
and added State after State this glorious Union until
we now number thirty-one They have built city after
city. Seventy years ago the city where we now stand
was about mile and half in length, half mile in
BREADTH and contained but q, 900 inhabitants Now it
Is more than five miles long and two miles wide Then
It bad but wooden houses which Of from to two
stres high Now is city of palaces from four to six
stories high and with population Of over GOO 900 in
haitants And thus New York has given an example Of
ns1stry 70 all the nations Of the earth Cheers New
fo.f has done more. Her whitens every sea-
driving rich production from every land and every cline
ang this the great commercial emporium of the United
Staes and, in addition to this by her Erie canal her
Ericlnd other railroads. she has penetrated westward
the lakes and drawn the Of the West to her
shors And this Is another evidence that No. York i
ntg place Tor the exhibition Of the industry Of the ma
s0ni Of the earth. [Applausel She has done more
She low offers the Crystal Palace for the exhibition of
the forks Of art and of industry she invites all the M
ton Of the EARTH her sister States to come here and e
hb their industry and their arts in order that she may
dra' benefit from them and they in like manner NAV
dra benefit from her. New York is peaceful citv for
onef her position and renown. New York must stand
and her example extend until other cities and other
stats fired by her example, shall direct their industry
and Enterprise to win the same position and she
has bained Sir, where will New York be whilst they
oming up to her renown? Past your maginations
a hundred years hence. The enterprise the industry
the integrity which have governed and ruled her mer-
chfns preserved for that length of time will give her
tw million Of inhabitants In viewing the industry Of all
natons am lost in wonder at what has been done here
in evenly years Applause
Gneral DAVIS said: thank you for the honor you
me from the bottom Of my heart and you gen.
uensn for the aatering in which you have al
tdf to that banner have so long marched under-tbe
stat and the stripes. From my boyhood to mature life
II Us my fortune to beneath that banner-that
hae for which fathers fought in the revolutionary
war But my friends, 1t may improper to speak Of
warp such an audience as this; perhaps it may seem
unreasonable to speak here Of the tented field and you
may nk that individual bearing the title of Secretary
Wahas no business at this banquet But is it
H t that the soldier is deserving Of nothing, or is
the revise the fact The soldier in the study Of his
professh learns the horrors Of war lie learns how
much has sacrificed for his country, and calculates
before-Hnd how much it viii take to reduce this for6-
cation that and sees the havoc which war occasions
Ithen 81 that can most cordially rejoice at this mani
me- and the increase OF the prosperity
the unt-those manifestations which bring together
men fro1eyey civilized quarter Of the globe to compare
done to advance science and what each
contrpuu to the increase Of the comfort of man. These
contrbutns held men together in the bands Of brother
hood rs earth was given to man for his being and
advance comfort Of shosld be the eliminating
point OF hpan ambition. NewYork for instance il an
example prosperity resulting from the practice of
principle Gree trade and this hold to be the founda
ton OF ITS pnralleed success without intending 10 rive
at all uence to any political aspersions whatsoever
say 1T hover without intending offence to gentle
men VINO mn hold opposite opinions Free-trade was
the aspratn ofFranklin and OF many other great and
eminent mefho were among the founders Of the nation
p1q houn La~tN