Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-09-18

mower; o. Ames s Sons exhibited various
agricultural implements from their manufac-
tory at the Court Mills rock cart was pre-
scented by John II. Brooks of Worcester.
There was an informal trial of the Kitchum,
Nanny, Union and Buckeye moving ma
chimes, upon the new common, in the fore
noon.
In the floral department, James Comley of
this city, who contributed so largely to the
horticultural exhibition, was the chief ex-
hibitor.
The dinner in the society hall at o'clock,
was the next thing of interest. The well
spread tables of Mr.. Mars were soon the
scene of energetic action. A good sprinkling
of ladies' was a pleasant feature of the dinner.
After prayer by Rev. Mr.. Souther, the presi-
dent of the society, Hon. Mr.. Mixter of Hard
wick, called the attention of all to the tables.
The band gave welcome music, and at the
close OF the dinner, the orator of the day,
Hon. Alexander IL. Bullock, was introduced
by the president with fitting remarks, in which
he spoke in a tone OF gratitude that in these
scenes of war so much attention could be given
to agricultural Improvement as was exhibited
in the fair of this year.
Mr.. Bullocks address, of which we give
an abstract, was finely conceived and adj
mirably delivered. 1t was able and elo-
quent, and was received with the greatest APP
plause.
He commenced by illustrating the impor-
lance of cultvatng the arts of peace in time
of war. The remarks he should make might
be concentrated in the expression, as his
theme, the model, productive state. In the
treatment ofthe subject he made full com
parison of the old with the new dispensation
of industry Allusion was made to More's
Utopia written more than three centuries ago,
in which would be found most of the employ
ments known to the opening of the present
century. The condition of our domestic in
dustry in former times was portrayed. The
state was then chiefly devoted to agriculture,
dormant and inert agriculture, without the
stimulants of the useful arts. The spinning
wheel and the loom were then in the family;
and the males over fifteen years of age
ploughed the earth, a few the sea. The pres
ent majestic system OF our manufactures and
arts had not then been awakened to life. This
state of affairs was stated amply and histOri-
cally as the first branch of the comparison,
which the orator termed the old dispensation
Next he pictured the new dispensaIieh under
which We live, tracing it to the division of la
Dor and the separation of emplOyments. The
model state should be not exclusively devoted
to agriculture, but its population should have
the most varied and profitable employments;
its producing capacities keeping pace with its
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active; exchange and commerce in products
always going on; labor saving machinery mu-
steal at every moment and rivallng even hui
man labor; and all in full sympathy with ag-
riculture which feeds the whole. His ideal of
an industrial state was examined at length.
England is its best example, and MasSachu
sets comes next.
Mr.. Bullock then referred to the published
returns of Massachusetts labor--more than
$500, 0000 900 per annum. OF this only one
eighth part, or $36,000,000, belonged to the
department of agriculture, and even this was
declared to be the gem of our corOnet. On
this point he enlarged to the praise of our az
riculture under the adverse circumstances
with which il is called to BATTLE In this con-
necion the agriculture of Worcester county
came in for its share OF merits for, in exhibit
tons of stock, value of horned cattle, products
toes, she stood out peerless and without ri
val i'll the state. After unfolding this part of
the subject lie proceeded to illustrate his
theme by showing that even the industy of
Worcester county is only one-fourth agricul-
tural, while the other three-tourthS are in
manufactures and the useful arts.
Recurring again to the marvellous diversity
of Massachusetts industry, the speaker drew
from it Il just and generous iGva Of LABOR He
said labor might be merely manual or not 1t
was business and employment. OF $4,000
males in the state over fifteen years of age,
only One-seventh were farmers; but the re-
mander were not to be regarded as drones in
the great hive; not class, nor an occupa-
ton could be spared from the imperial arch of
our social life. Under this head he gave to
every occupation a place in the field, and
claimed for every active man orwoman title
to the name of a laborer in the great Vine
yard of the world. All this was copiousIy
expanded.
He then in brief but comprehensive rhet-
oric re-stated the glorious workings of this
system of diversity and unity in the industry
of the state; how it had invested with life the
commonwealth and girded it with spring
emeralds and Autumn's golden plumage;
how it had called into its august workshop
the great mystery of art and invention, and
SET Ill HOtlOn tne mechanism OF eighty years,
until the raw materials OF all chimes had de-
parted in mystery from their natural state and
reappeared in the beauty and glory of Iv-
ing economy; how it had created the neces-
sity of commerce, and had answered it by
conquests over the element and terrors
OF nature, so that air, steam and light
ming are winged agencies OF our wants
how, having responded to every material
want, it had filled the state with the
higher proofs of its affluence and benefac-
tons, and was pouring over it day and night
the ceaseless tide of moral irrigation. This
he called our epic-so much better than that
of dream and song. The tabled river Pacto-
lus was compared with the golden river of
New England, which was the representative
of every stream on her slopes or valleys over
which the genius of American enterprise had
asserted its benefcent authority But it dif-
1ered considerably from the river of mythol-
ogy.
Though to those streams it resemblance hold,
Whose foam is amber, and their gravel gold,
Its greater but less guilty wealth L explore,
Search not its bottom, but survey its shore"
Mr.. Bullock concluded the argumentative
part of his address with parting and impress
sive admonitiOn of the necessity of larger
agriculture. He compared the English and
American abstracts as to the relative proper
ton of those engaged in agriculture, and in
ferred that instead of $33 100000, there
should be in Massachusetts an agricultural
production of 500, ZOO, 900. The importance