We have good reason to believe that America will be able to make such a display that foreigners -will carry away with them a better knowledge of our country and a higher regard for our free institutions. Oar people also will acquire a vast fund of knowledge concerning the productions the resnlts of the art. of the skill. of the inventive genius of other lands. which would otherwise be learned only by the wealthy and favored citizens who are able to travel in foreign couttries. Web have ground to hope and expect as a result of the exhibition that the immigration to our shores will thereafter be swollen Iiy the accession of skilled laborers. thereby contributing to relieve us from dependence upon the workshops of Europe. It seems to me to have been achappy conception that the ceutmnial celebration of the Declaration should have been united with this exhibition. What an eventful cetnrywill that eclebratiobring before the mindl In what century of the worlds history. eceptiig that in which the Son of fan was born. have such memorable and important evonts transpired as during the lust hundred yearsl Wihat nation lhas ever made such progress during the space of time as our own!
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