New-York tribune., 1870-09-08
AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR
FIRST DAY,
FIRST DAY.
REMARKS BY HORACE GREELEY - ADDRESS Bf
DR.. GEORGE b. LORlNG.

The FAIR OF the American lnslltutc loi iO'V
opened yesterday the Empire Rink with good at'eho
ance and fine array Of articles on exhibition soon
after O'Clock Mr. Orestes Cleveland, Chairman Of the
Board Of Managers called the assembsgc to order made
fe remarks and introduced Horace Greeley Prcsioeht
of the Institute, who aS received with applause anu
spoke as follows
HORACE GREELEY's REMARKS.
Ladies and Gentlemen: You see American industry ana
industrial art represented and typihed around yon.
Though this Exhibition in its present imperfect state
embodes but small portion OF what American Industry
and art have produced, yet II you closely examine
it you can easily infer the whole. We have rep
resentations here Of the "infant manufactures" OF
our country, as they sometimes called ana az thi'
term ia too often applied in derson will briefly con
slder IT, Infancy is always lrelatiye, comparative
Young elephant may have lived more days than an Ola
cur, So il Is with these manufactures. we say tnae
nercan industrial art is yet young, measuring its AURA
ton by that Of its rival ts Eager and sometimes ehVous
eompetors The lifetime OF this Institute has Witnessed
and measured nearly all OF the great triumphs OF
industrial art on this continent Yes when this Institute
commenced it's public exhibitions not Onetenth so much,
either Of metal or fabrics produced In this country
as there will in the year 1870 saying nothing oi tne
railroad whose first locomotive whistled ON TINS con
tinent since this Institute was founded, or OF the
electric telegraph still more recent and mar
yelous invention, 1 may safely assert that Amer-
can industrial art is the growth OF very fe"
of the most recent years. OF iron we are certainly
making ten times much az we did when TINS lnsttue
was founded and proceeding to make more ana
more with still greater rapdity and energy than Id any
former year OF cOunrys life. There s vast VaI1e-
ty of American products bounded by still more recent
horizon OF steel, there will be presented here some
specimens believed be better and cheaper than any
that be imported, and Of manufacture which began
in the year 1870 Screws which formerly entirely
imported are exported by people, and 1t is the
same with saws, immense branch OF man
ufacture only commenced on large %ae IN
this country within q few years. and now We are
nearly If not quite supplied from American sources
Which have extended the a Of weaving far beyond
the point at which Jacquard left the art Al these are
under the encouragement which Government has
wisely think, extended TO American art Onder tnis
and fnespest We all know that In pins, for instance, In
spades and shoyes and large variety o. aFaeI PrtsS
Iaborers are building RAILWAYS in Asia and Africa with
American shOyels because they are cheaper anu Doa
sad we have still not attained TO complete cheapness
and this is said with some appearance OF tut. @
gold than tun British iron but 1t costs less lsDor
A workman can buy more iron in this country Ior a
made Relatfyey then, have attained cheapneso
in all respects, as we have positively m nahy: nan 40 dee
certain metals and fabrics cheapy some Say yt ny OS
buy OF them In other words If 10000 bales OF cOtth
will buy 100000 OF pig iron ana we cannot make
the iron 50 cheapy why not raise the cotton % ana p
that OF Washn gtonthat is necessary for us to be sure
of our supply Of great metal in time Of war and that
If we make the iron well grow the cotton we have
mastered two arts Whereas II we only grow the COTTON
have mastered only one We want not only the IRON
but the craft and skill OF the makers OF ron ana We
wish TO do our part toward the CONQUEST OF % ha m
nearer consumer and prodneer are Drouga. bss5'
ths Sa cheaper arraT their the share the
net results that to the producer Place con,
tnent between them and transportato eats
up twothrs the net product of the labor
Bring them close together, and IL Is very certain te
Will NAL ke exchanges
could say much more ON this subject Out 90 not caIe
10 proog hes0 remarks there another prepared to
addres. YOU and moreover, can be heard at any tne
Laughter and appauseI 49,,
Mr. Cleveland thereupon introduced DR.. Geo. b. LOring
OF Salem, who warmly received and proceeded 10
deliver the following:
DIR. LORuNG's ADDRESS.
Mr. PRESIDENT: One Of the most extraordinary and
attractive phenomena in the history Of man, the CO.
operative action Of the human mind upon the prominent
problem Of the hour whatever that problem may be.
Controlled perhaps by the force Of example perhaps by
that subtle and mysterious sympathy which ybrates
from particle particle, until the whole mass is instinct
with fe inspired perhaps, by the divine influence OF
manifest greatness and power, the popular mind com
bnes all greater and lesser forces for the solution OF
the question before it, And the genius Of the time he
who accepting every tribute 10 the the treasure OF
great and the widows mite molds all into expressive
form, and inspires and represents te age IN Whlcn ne
lives The problem is presented and al the divine en-
thought that the earth Is terra4ueous sphere settles
into the mind OF the navgators, aud unknown and
exploring keels and new islands and continents echo
through all their sotudes the voice or advancing Man.
rsDend 70 the the divine t1eh The nres of
the heavens attract the great observer and there no
stars set in their appointed places The human heart is
To he unlocked and the world IL filed with the voices OF
pOred, and philosophers and metaphysicians abound.
The demands Of social comfort convenience prosperity
up sezing and subduDg every natural force TO tie
dominion OF the useful arts. And divide time, not
nlrrfp aln h1f div md
mortal periods into the Of art and discovery and
Literature and Invention into the ages OF Coperncus,
and Columbus and Shakespeare, and our own OF In
genous and untlring artisans
INTELLECTUAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
Now, gentlemen, have assigned this age to the in
ventors, because to them belongs especially think the
OF having accomplished that which will be longest
remembered OF u.s. The time and the glory especially
theirs have forgotten the intellectual accomplish
mens Of times the food OF light which Science has
shed upon the hidden treasures Of EARTH and and
newspaper. and youme the sudacous spirit Of in
quiry the keen and quick recognition OF human right
the unerrg sagacity OF our popular instincts TINS social
and civil system utried before the experiment OF
country, which appeals TO and develops every human
faculty in every human being asking for development
have not forgotten all this Neither can forget the
of our TT time m as ags %aSs manifest fse n art
genius OF Hawthorne, before which the
whose bidding our language clothed with power
and beauty 1t is for and benett and delight that
lurk under fair exterior and find shelter beneath the
garb Of organized charity and philanthropy. Those
great lights know have illumined our heavens, and
marked age, aud bound il 10 the brilliant past Nor
ia this all For think that were Plato TO appear again
earth he would enjoy morning call ON Mr. Emerson
his rural retreat in Concord have no doubt that
Homer would lind his best translator here in
York. beneath the roof OF Mr.. Bryant but that he
standing heart | think that Shakespeare, and
Milton, and Ben Johnson, would he amazed
at the lavish supply OF thought furnished an
eager community by The public press of our day Ana
am sure they would all Join hands IN pilgrimage 10
Brooklyn to hear one OF Henry War1 Beeclei @ @
especially Plato Shakespeare had ever heafu one
before and given account OF 1t TO his
n does seem 10 me that these might be some OF the ht
FRACTIONS which great of former days might nnd
s,nn, rs But however this may be- am sure that we