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Excerpt from Address of Jonathan Allen, Esq. President of the Berkshire Agricultural Society
With this view of the importance of agriculture, you will permit me to express an opinion in relation to the pol icy which the State ought to pursue. Believing it to be the duty of every wise government to protect, defend, and encourage its citizens and believing, also, that every ac tive, honest man is of value and importance to the State, I feel it to be the bounden duty of the State to give all such aid and protection as is in her power, inasmuch as the Constitution provides, That it shall be the duty of the Legislatures, to encourage private societies and public institutions, rewards and immunities, for the promotion of Agriculture, &0. 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.
