Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-10-01

HE HAMPDEN COUNTY CATTLE Show
According to all accounts, the thirteenth an
nual Cattle Slow of the Hampden Co. Agri-
cultural Society, which commenced on Mon
! day, at Springfield, was very successful. There
were two bundled and fifty more entries of
stock, among which, was a fine herd of Dur
hams from the farm Of Paoli Lathrop, of
Hadley. The exhibition was held in a spa
cious enclosure, which was dedicated to the
use of the Society with appropriate cera-
monies on the second day of the Fair, which
will be known hereafter as Hampden Park.
The dedicatory address, by Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher, was one of that gentleman s
best productions. In speaking of the objects
of the Society in purchasing the grounds, Mr.
Beecher said
"Here the farmers would come to exhibit
their agricultural implements. Man was the
first machine. His hands were spades-the
first spades. His first blowing was done by
scratching. His feet were wheels or runners.
His back was a cart. Then the spade came
and told him to take hold of the handle and
push, and it wonld do the digging. Then the
OK and the plow came and told him to take
hold OF the plow-tails and follow, and they
would look out for the rest. So, improve
ment everywhere places man and his hands
farther from the point of execution. The cart
came and told him to take the sack off his
back, and put in its (the carts) belly Here
they would bring their herds. Here they
would bring their sheep-an animal which he
did not think very much of, because it re-
minded him so much of the SO called conserv-
ative-not much of anything, covered up
with wool ! Here they would bring their
swine. He had an affection for swine, as he
was western man, but they always remind
ed him of bad and debased men. If he be.
heved in the TRANSPORTATION of spirits, he
should believe bad men were doubled up put
on all fours, and made into swine, Here they
would bring the patient OK, type of endur-
ance. He loved them if he didn't have to
drive them. Here they bring their cows.
These made him think of home, He did his
counting in "cheese- room"
About the horses-He was dissuaded by
some from coming here. People said that a
prayer to begin with, hymn to follow, SER
mon to succeed. and horse race to wind up
with, was not very happy conjunction. He
thought so too, but he did not believe in let
ting the devil have all the best horses, as he
was sHto 70 nave the pest music.
The speaker did not believe that betting,
and gambling, and vice, were necessarily as
ISOLATED with good horses 1t is not true that
bad men have all the good horses. He had
good horse himself. He warned the society
against giving any countenance to racing,
and the prostitution of the grounds to un-
worthy purposes. He did not believe that
the society would allow anything OF the kind.
He believed the Park would be kept to its
legitimate and most worthy use, the develop
ment and perfection of the noblest animal of
all, the gentleman among animals.
He closed with beautiful allusion to the
manner in which posterity would regard the
men who had conferred the park upon them
The elms that would some day wave all over
the ground would murmur their praise in all
their myriad leaves, and sing their requiems
in Winter through all their signing boughs.