The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1854-04-27
Circular to the Exhibitors CT the
Crystal Palace.
Nc,r York. ApriZ Is. 1851.

The undersigned joyfully announce tC
the Exhibitors and the public, that the
formidable obstacles which threatened the
complete discontinue and destruction Of
the noble enterprise which they have
chosen to serve, are at length removed,
IN good part through the hberality of a
portion of our fellow citizens who have
pledged advances in aid of the Exhibition
to the amount of 100000. Thus aided,
we have been enabled to dissolve the in
junction which was source of embarrass-
ment to US, and alarm or apprehension to
many of our Exhibitors-to pay OF or
arrange all the debts pressing upon US,
and provide against the possible occur
renee of such annoyances in future. We
therefore apprise you that the Exhibition
will be temporarily closed this evening,
in order to be completely renovated and
reftted, preparatory to its formal REQ
pening, on Thursday the 4th day Of Nay
next.
The directors need not, surely, dilate
on the value and Importance of this Ex-
hibition. Imperfect as it has hitherto
been, and as, in view of the total want OF
experience on our side Of the Atlantic in
the arrangement Of Exhibitions of such
magnitude and variety, it could not fail
TO be, il has yet proved immensely bene-
fetal to the Inventive views, Artistic de-
velopments, and Industrial progress of
the country. The opportunity therein
afforded for bringing valuable Inventions
or improvements to the immediate notice
of the capable aud appreciating, is but
one among many benefits conferred on
the leaders of Industrial enterprise among
us. If overweening conceit or inordinate
self complacency has been rebuked and
chastened by irresistible evidences Of
European superiority in elaborate and
delicate workmanship, or even in educa-
ted, ripened taste, the Exhibition of 1888
has fully demonstrated the Indebtedness
of Europe to America fer very importa mt
Inventions and Improvements, stretching
over the whole domain of Agriculture,
Manufactures and the useful Arts, In
farming implements, and machines for
fitting the rude staples of Agriculture, for
the convenient and economic use of the
fabrication, our country need fear no
comparison; and a young Nation of twen-
ty-fve Millions which while still ardu-
ously employed in the clearing away OF
its primitive forest, has found time in halt
century to bestow on mankind such in
ventions as those Of the Gotten Gin, the
Steamboat, the Reaper and the Electric
TELEGRAPH, need surely neither repress
nor conceal her anxiety to profit by all
in the line of discovery, Art or Invention,
which has been or may bN exhibited by
others. IF the New York Exhibition has
shown our people how to improve any
implement or process in the light of Eu-
ropean achievement, that impulse IS a
National benefit Of signal and even IN
creasing value.
If the past has witnessed mistakes in
the great enterprise now conhded to our
hands, that circumstances will render our
own task easier and our success more
probable. If it has evolved many yalu-
able suggestions and illuminated for US
the path of duty by triumphs as well as
defeats, we shall be able to walk surely
where our predecessors stepped doubt
fully and anxiously. With your co-ope-
ration, and that of the coming Fultons,
Whitneys and Morses, whose triumphs
are vet unachieyed or unacknowled ged,
we hope to render to the Crystal Palace
the recognised centre OF attraction Tor the
votaries of Industry, the deVotees of Art
and the admirers of Genius, throughout