New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-05-05

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plants and the moving air, are all teachers o.
| labor The waiers siagnate, and the air becomes
noxious, and the earth barren without motion and change
Nature reves and herself in the abundance Of her
life and activity The grea, Author Of the works Of Ma.
turc the Creator OF US and Il all things rested it is said
fCm the work which be had done aud pronounced il rood
and he command which cnioned an Observance of
da ofs also required from the creatures of moral
government, continued labor for the romaning time and
promised A. reward the soed-.ime and the harvest aud
the genial rain and sunshine. Labor thus exanplei ana
commanded may well be said TO be dgnhed. Oar a.,en-
ton to-day i chiefly eyCted TO physical labor directed
~ The intellectual We surrounded Ivy art, which ia
bot the united production n the intellectual and physical
abof Of man. Gathered under this crystal roof some
OF me most rare and beautiful specacas Of mans hand
work here ihe representative atr Of mast of the civil
lied nations Of the earth be SEN In .Is view our
objects IN TINS day eemmemoratOn nave peculiar in
end to ceftain extent carried olt Combinations OF
mies and confederation OF States have been Witnessed
1he Grecian youth from all parts their country Assem-
hed at the Olympic Games and exhibited ec.s of strength
snd coDtendod in the and occasionally se poet and
historian then first pabshed the productions their pens
separate States have had their Fars vt Agc ,ltur and
the Mechanic Arts bot fair where the representative
labor of the world should be gathered novel, and owed
lis existence TO of peace and enterprise. The phi
lanhropst fcndly hoped thar new era had thus
been inauguraicd. and that lands intersectei by
marrow firth would no Iotrsr "abhor each other"
snd mountains inerposed' 10 more make enemies ef
nations. Ii perchance the war now commenced IN Eu-
rope shall become general the ~ Worlds Fairs will DO
remembered and cherished memorials of period when
all the nations Of the earth came together and commended
not who could do the others most harm but who
could exhibit the best productions of Labor and Arwho
could best illustrate the triumphs Of peace Even in war;
the moruHg salute them and the reys of the evening
gid tssm; let them remain as omblcms of peace and
good will to men and let the seouner and the stranger
even from hostile lands find in them home and place Of
refuge and he safe from the avcnger Of blood.
This Palace If ours brings up in strong contrast the
present and the past The world was old when here our
fathers first made the wild woods ring with their hymns
of lofty cheer" When they first touched these shores.
it if they hal landed on new planet, and they
STYLED the country smphacally the New World" New
varieties Of plants and unknown OF animals
presented 70 view while equally strange in com
pleSion. language asd Institutions They had homes to
erect in the wilderness They had Ia battle with the ele
men,s aud to dispute dominion the land with the In
dim and the beasts OF ey Present wants and the srg-
giles for the necessary Of subsistence LETT little time
for the cultivation Of the rehnements of civilized life.
The land from whence they came was far OF across tenn
pesuous oceans and only ut long intervals Of
The homes and the kindred and friends they had left be-
hind. The forests 50 be hewn down and the earth
made produce her fruits and the the hoe aud the pow
share the instruments which they weed with skill
But standing here this day and looking around on the
varied productions of the contributions from different
portions of our own widespread country and from various
and faroff nations OF the earth struck with tho
marvellous changes which time has wrought Modern
discoveries and civilization bring the ends of the world
togother and judging from what is now before US might
chief city of the western hemisphere in of the
principal capitals of Europe. H. in those peaceful con-
tests for supremacy with the Old World we have been
found wanting IN the ornamental but not IN the uscfu-H
in those modern Olympic games of natons-we have not
gained the principal victory have at least shown that
we have the strength of muscle, and that time and expert
onoe alone are necessary enable reach the goal in
triumph and win the prize This reneuguration toiays
of renewed efforts to pfss forward in the race,
and embazon if possible the motto of the great Roman
conquaer REM r, ric upon the American standard Of
L0JOr and If Art.
THIS speech was followed by chorus by the fIar-
monte Society. This was followed by piece Of music
by DRoUET, executed by l.. DRoUET Jr.
TIE REV. T. l.. CUYLERs SPEECH
The following speech of the Rev. T. L. CUYLER was
received with most unbOunded applause Mr.. CUYLER
said
You will pardon me- Mr. President if I feel
barassment to-day FOR it is the first time ever spoke in
Palace or ever took part in coronation. l am very
proud stand up in this royal asscmblagc where the mon
all native soveregns and the queens the queens OF
beauty who rule with the sceper Of domestic love. l
I'm proud to greet these ambassadors who are here
present; they are titled nobemen from the Old World,
but ambassadors from the Workshop, wearing III rand
of the Legion of Labor-the men
Whose brows are with honest sweat,
Who earn whGte'er they cam
Whatever may be said of former exhibitions here it shs
not be said that you this morning have made the mistake
of emitting the Prince of Denmark from the play OF
Hamlet 1t shall not be said to-day that the genius OF
American Labor comes to his own and his own receives
him not Ii cannot be said that gowns and epuettes arc
taking the place of the wokmans frock that the sword
drying ST@y The Pcw ana the h"mms ,o a 1nc Q,
ul structure this continent 1t is perfect dream OF
beauty. They tell that supasses its European models
But beautiful ia this fairy work Of glass nnd metal SUI
erb swels yondcr dome above heads blazing at
nght like miniature sky yet this binding has its chief
beauty TO me in being of the worlds grandost temples
of Pfacc While the armies Of Europe are measuring
their strength the battlefield the soldiers of peace shall
in this place their skill in the productions of art
On TIN, spot the States Of firm Union shall compete in
generous rivalry We meet 10 welcome here the shrewd
of Now-Engiand the land where labor has always
been hOnorcd from the days when she Roger Sher
man, the shoemaker TO Congress down to the time when
he made her ailes stn;e-man out Of the LITTLE black
Dan who used water the teamsters horses before his
atLer's doorway in Salisbury. Here meet to welcome
he merry musicians Of Lowell who play their cotton
piEdles to the tune Of twenty millions year. and who find
he waters OF the Mcmac hotter than all the rivers Of
Damascus" Here will exhibit the products Of the
Empire State brought hitler the canals which her
Clinton dug and upon the steamers which her Fulton in
ented. We will levy contributions Quaker Philadcl-
ha where Franklin pulled his press and Godfrey made his
luadranis. We will send greetings to Cincinnati. say
ng no send rs the Greek Slaves and the Fisher
Boys which your Powers has created and we will say
o Chicago, send your Virginia kcapers, which cut
Town the pride Of John Bull and TO Carolina, send
be fruits Of those fields which Gen. Greene, tho
blacksmith fought the battles of American freedom And
yhen the fairy Palace is full and the genius Of Art has
Cckond hther her choicest treasures when the Congress
4 nations shall meet here day by day then shall America be
ble 10 yindcate herself from the un Just and
roachcs heaped upon her at the Worlds Exhibition in
iyde Park two years ago. Ia closing and IN the presence
4 the who has done much for labor, let me say:
Then let ar toss, be freely qnsaed,
In cool aud trimming
All honor to all handicrat,
To telling men and women.
oh worsmen IN your bigh, array,
send out your free hOssnnsh
We celebrate sam, Ilabors DRY
Beneath her starry banner"
This was followed by another performance by the
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