New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-09-09
Resolve that no effort sha! be spared to secure this
ausv: cious con.ummstion.

The Crystal Palace is now open daily for the
receipt Of contributions TO the annual Fair Of the
American Institute, which will open to the public
next week. To u.s. who have watched the pro
gress and growth Of these Fairs through quarter
Of q century, and who remember the time when
fair dancing hall (the Masonic) sufced to contain
every article exhibition their recurrence is Of
ccurse more interesting than to those who have
merely given, or failed to give, an evening TO
careless ramble through the crowded avenues OF q
recent display; but We think no American who
lives by industry can thoughtfully attend one OF
these airs and not be instructed and cheered by
Such extensive and varied displays of elegant AID
tasteful fabrics, such powerful aud effective ma
cbinery, such admirable inventions AID ingenious
adaptations, should tend to inspire hopes OF
brighter day for our country and our race. In eX-
aiming the inventions and products here collected
an American msy justifably feel proud that ne may
call Fitch and Fulton, Whitney and Morse, WITH 90
many other benefactors of mankind, his country
men. He may find at any Fair gratifying proofs
that our people are still contributing their full
share toward the progress Of our race IN the O'efu
Arts. Here are tie Sewing Machines, destined TO
emar cipate women from the cramped posture and
slow starvation of needlework, many in number
and diverse in principle and method, but every one
TIE invention of an American. In machines for
Moving and Reaping, our country holds nearly as
marked prominence; in SteambOatiDg and Tele
graphing, We are decidedly ahead of the Old World
IL Dee Steamirg, Great Britain is now running
abe ad Of u.s. by means Of her commercial and manu-
featuring ascendency but in the Of steam
ca fresh water che does sot compare with
US. In Clocks, Cut Nails, Edge Tools, and what
ever other manufactures circumstances Us to
originate and establish uncrippled BY foreign COM
petition, We lead all other nations. To-day our
production of Metal. and Textile Fabrics is de-
pressed, owing to a narrow view Of their own in
terest taken by the two or three hundred thousand
Cotton planters who rule the Union as they will;
but this cannot last; and even if it should, we shall
in time suImOunt il. II is our countrys "mani
fest destiny to spin and weave, to mine and
smtt, 10 fashiOn and temper, whatever may be re-
qured for the satisfaction of her needs, aud
perverseness Of National policy can finally thwart
this most deirabe contamination.
The choicest wealth Of any nation 10 its most
skillful and effective industry All the fllbusters
who ever were or ever can be sent out of the
country never contributed one half so much to it's
growth or power as the inventor of the Steamboat
or of the Cotton Gin. If genius should be devel-
oIed 10 our day who should teach US how to make
Iron from or own Ores decidedly cheaper than We
can import the Brltish metal, he will have added
more to the power and wealth Of this country, to
the independence and thrift of its aboring class,
than could be achieved by the annexation of the
entire continent from Bsffns Bay to Cape Horn.
A Railroad to the Pacific will thus be rendered a
far easier scl is7ement than the Erie Canal was
forty years ago.
We urgently need more intelligent, instructed
LaborDg Class-instructed not in Greek and Latin,
in Algebra and Metaphy sics, but in sciences which
form the base of Industrial efficiency. We need
LaboriDg Glass familiar with the elemental truths
Of Chemistry, Geology and Natural History, and
skilled in the application of those truths to the
achievement of benefcent ends Weneed Labor
ing Clas, who find il such an exhibition as the Ameri
can Institute is about to give US instruction and
qualification which outweighs in attractiveness the
ascu atoms of the tbeater and the sOrccres of the
grozshop. We need, in short. Perpetual Exhibi
ton N our City Of the trophies of Indu.try and
Useful Art; an exhibition wherein every successful
invention shall be illustrated by specimen or model;
every great mandatory by a sample of its pro-
cucts; and this We shall have whenever our young
mechanics and artisans shall have become wise
enough TO prefer the improvement to the squander-
ing of their leisure hours. Meantime, let US make
the most Of our Annual Fairs.
We exhort every American inventor, artisan
miner manufacturer. who has produced anything
he deems worthy Of public attention, to exhibit it
at the Fair now at hand. He can hardly fail to
profit by such exhibition; if not let him carry the
less to the credit of his patriotism. Let us, in
spite Of commercial and manufacturing depression,
chow tina. the cause of American Industry is still
onward and upward-that if beaten to the earth
to-day it rises and renews the struggle tomorrow.
If there be any who have products worth showing
that they have not hitherto thought Of sending TO
the Palace, We exhort them to resolve at once to
exhibit. ard to LET NO hour pass unimproyed until
they shall have secured the requisite space and
filed it. Let US make this the best Fair thus far,
snd so prepare to eclipse it next year BY better.
The Address of the Special Committee of our
City Council. to The People of this State is quite