Excerpt from An Address Delivered Before the North Carolina State Agricultural Society: At the Second Annual Fair of the Society, Thursday, October 19th, 1854 Mr. President an Gentlemen, of the North Carolina State Agricultural Society: I congratulate you on the favorable auspices under which we are assembled, and on the stirring and gladdening scene this day exhibited. It is a scene well calculated to awaken emotions of joyous pride for the present, and cheering hopes for the future, in the bosom of every patriotic son of the good Old North State. The promise held out by our last Fair, on this same spot - our then first essay in an untried field - has been more than fulfilled. The seeds of industry, enterprise, and State pride, then sown, happened to fall on fruitful soil; and by a diligent cultivation, have already ripened into a rich and abundant harvest. What spectacle is better calculated to call into active play all the nobler and more generous impulses of our nature, than a scene like this? Whilst in our own country, the elements of political discord are in agitation throughout the borders of other States - whilst on two Continents of the old world, opposing hosts are confronting each other ready for the work of slaughter - here, we meet together as friends and fellow-countrymen, for the purpose of making our common offerings around the altar of Concord, and of celebrating the achievements of the pursuits of peace. A calm survey of this living and moving panorama, is well calculated to superinduce reflections of a moral as well as practical character - to stir up associations connected with our past history and future destiny. Centuries in the history of nations, and the progress of peoples are but as days in the lives of individuals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.