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BAN Q.U E T 
 
Universal Exhibition Paris 1878 
 
 THE BANQUET TO 
 
 Richard C. McCormick 
 
 COMMISSIONER-GENERAL FOR THE UNITED STATES 
 
 GIVEN IN PARIS NOVEMBER 26 1878 
 
 With an Accouijt of the Testimonial presented 
 to him by the United States Exhibitors 
 
 London. Printed for Private Distribution 
 
 By C. Whittingham, at the Chiswick Press 
 
 M Dccc Lxxviii 
 
CORRESPONDENCE 
 
 Paris, November 7th, 1878. 
 
 Hon. E. C. McCoemick. 
 Dear Sir, 
 
 OME of your fellow-countrymen, now in 
 Paris, desirous of showing you their high 
 appreciation of your valuable services 
 as Commissioner-General of the United 
 States to the Paris Exhibition of 1878, 
 which have so much contributed to the success of the 
 American Department, wish to tender you a compli- 
 mentary dinner. 
 
 Hoping that you will accept, we beg you to name 
 the day most agreeable to you. 
 
 We are, dear Sir, 
 
 Yours most respectfully. 
 
 Edward F. Notes. 
 Thomas W. Evans. 
 Wm. Seligman. 
 Lucius Fairchild. 
 
 John H. Harjes. 
 John Munroe. 
 A. Van Bergen. 
 John J. Ktan. 
 
 Committee. 
 
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 Paris, November 8th, 1878. 
 
 Gentlemen, — I have received your letter of the 
 7th instant, tendering me, on hehalf of my countrymen 
 in Paris, a dinner in appreciation of my services as 
 Commissioner-General of the United States to the 
 Universal Exhibition of 1878. The compliment, indi- 
 cating, as it does, that my official labours, now about 
 to close, are favourably considered, is highly valued, 
 and I have pleasure in designating Tuesday, the 26th 
 inst., as a day entirely agreeable to me, if to you, for 
 the proposed dinner. 
 
 Respectfully and gratefully yours, 
 
 E. C. McCOEMICK. 
 
 To General Edwaed F. Notes, General Lucius 
 Fairchild, Dr. Thomas W. Evans, John H. 
 Harjes, Esq., William Seligman, Esq., John 
 MuNROE, Esq., A. Van Bergen, Esq., and John 
 J. Ryan, Esq. 
 
 Committee. 
 
BANQUET 
 
 HE complimentary dinner to Com- 
 missioner-General McCormick was 
 given at tlie Continental Hotel, in 
 Paris, on the evening of November 
 26th, 1878. 
 
 The grand banquet hall known as the "Salle des 
 F^tes " was appropriately decorated with French and 
 American flags. 
 
 At eight o'clock, about one hundred gentlemen 
 being in attendance, the chair was taken by General 
 Edward F. Notes, United States Minister to 
 
 France. 
 
 The dessert having been served, the Chairman rose 
 and announced the first regular toast, viz.: "The 
 President of the Eepublic of France." 
 
 M. DiETZ-MoNNiN, Director of the French 
 
 Section of the Universal Exposition, said : — 
 
 Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, — Please excuse 
 
 me if a French voice dares to bring you, in your own 
 
 lano-uage, our most hearty compliments and our best 
 
 thanks for your kind invitation. 
 
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 Above all, I am very glad as a Eepublican, and I 
 feel myself highly honoured, as manager of the French 
 Section, to respond to the toast proposed by your 
 Minister, General Noyes, by proposing to you the 
 health- of General Hayes, the glorious President of the 
 United States, and the prosperity of our elder sister in 
 democracy, the American Republic. Since I had the 
 pleasifre of visiting your magnificent country; since I 
 had the opportunity of seeing with my own eyes, 
 during your Centennial Exhibition, how rapidly a 
 young nation is able to progress when it is ruled by 
 the spirit of freedom, self-help, labour, and popular 
 education, I wish only for our dear France, that after 
 she has had the honour of fighting beside your fathers 
 for the holy independence, she may follow now and for 
 ever the excellent examples she receives from you. 
 
 Our Exhibition of 1878 may be considered as a first 
 and decisive step, after our misfortunes, on the glorious 
 way where you preceded us, and we hope you will carry 
 away, when yon leave us, this impression — ^that we are 
 now rising up again by our energetic labour and free 
 spirit. You carry away also a large number of awards 
 for your exhibits. We are not astonished at all at 
 your brilliant success, and are sure that if you had 
 had more time to prepare, the awards would have been 
 still more numerous. Nevertheless, let us thank you 
 most heartily for your kind and valuable assistance 
 here. Let us hope that, on both sides of the Atlantic, 
 the old friendship between America and France, now 
 renewed under the patronage of our excellent friend. 
 Governor McCormick, and on the battle-field of peace 
 and industry will grow for ever and continue for the 
 benefit of human progress and liberty. With such 
 feelings, gentlemen, I propose, my American friends, 
 
a toast to the President of the United States and to 
 the eternal friendship between the American and 
 French Republics. 
 
 Ex-Governor Fenton, of New York, responded 
 as follows, viz. : — 
 
 Mr. Chairman, — In my youth I was in the village of 
 Carthage, near the city of my home residence, on an 
 occasion when Henry Clay was present. He was 
 called to address the people, who eagerly assembled 
 upon the coming of one so renowned, and finally, in 
 obedience to repeated calls, appeared before them, 
 saying : " I cannot speak, but you can look at me." 
 I wish, Mr. Chairman, I could be excused, even 
 though with like tardy reluctance, by yourself and the 
 gentlemen here assembled, from speaking this evening. 
 But you will uot excuse me even though I shield my- 
 self behind the eminent example of the eloquent states- 
 man of Kentucky, notwithstanding there is far less in 
 my words than in his, and far less of interest in looking 
 at me than at him. The occasions are difierent. You 
 will all be glad to know, however, that I am to be 
 brief. 
 
 We frequently hear it said, that it is a great thing 
 to have lived at this time. That is, we hear it often 
 said in the United States : meaning, I suppose, that it 
 is more to have lived in this age of stirring events and 
 immeasurable progress, than in any previous age. 
 But I go farther, or rather, I narrow the object of 
 interest, and say it is a great thing to have lived and 
 been in this stately Capital of Europe to witness this 
 last and greatest display of the world's products, as 
 epitomized at the Champ-de-Mars, during the past six 
 months. At least, you will agree with me that it 
 
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 would be one of the greatest things, if we could all 
 have been like General McCormick. It is a good thing 
 to surround him this evening and pay him honour. 
 
 But, Mr. Chairman, you look beyond General 
 McCormick in your expressions of good-will towards 
 the President of the United States. I can well under- 
 stand how the President would not be overlooked by 
 an American audience of the character of this, either 
 abroad or at home. And I have also to thank the 
 honourable Dietz-Monnin, of Republican France, who 
 has just closed an eloquent address for the felicitous 
 mention of the first citizen of our Republic. From 
 whatever quarter, the compliment is highly deserved. 
 
 Frequently, at festivities like this, we celebrate the 
 exaltation and achievements of men. It may be some- 
 what an American custom. In this instance we also 
 celebrate the exaltation and achievements of our 
 country — of our system, which opens up the path of 
 free competition in the contest for the honours of life, 
 whether the contestants be humble born or high bom, 
 rich or poor — of our system, which not only admits, 
 but invites the most active enterprise, the largest pro- 
 duction, the highest skiU, and the most absolute material 
 prosperity. The honour and the success of the Presi- 
 dent of the United States in promoting the public 
 integrity at home, and in maintaining the public faith 
 abroad, are the result, in some measure, of the free 
 course of our institutions, and the improvement of our 
 people in all the departments of social and political 
 life. Our system of free popular government inspires 
 a high sense of patriotism and honour. I do not say 
 that this improvement and this patriotism are greater 
 with us than with any other people. I am not free 
 to say that. 
 
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 But it is useless to ignore what we cannot deny to 
 exist. I refer, of course, to the influence and effect of 
 free popular goVemment upon the development of 
 industry, the progress of intelligence, and the perfec- 
 tion of character. So if we do not proclaim the cir- 
 cumstances of our position, and the excellence of our 
 chief magistrate, we may at least contemplate each 
 with honourable pride. It is a contemplation of 
 the legitimate results of civil and religious liberty. 
 It is what a people who remember with patriotic 
 pride the heroic devotion to liberty of Lafayette and 
 Washington, and Hancock and Adams, and their faith- 
 ful compeers, may be expected to attain. President 
 Hayes found honour, because honour lay in the path 
 of duty — in the path of his country's honour. And I 
 am sure I cannot better close the promised brief 
 address than by inviting^ in his name, as far as I can, 
 all the people, of all the countries represented at this 
 great World's Fair, to engage with us in the race of 
 honourable rivalry. 
 
 The Chaibman then said : — 
 
 Gentlemen," — We have gathered here to-night to 
 present our respectful compliments and to offer our 
 congratulations to a distinguished gentleman who, by 
 the exercise of rare executive ability, the most sterling 
 integrity, an accommodating spirit and engaging 
 manners, has, as Commissioner-General of the United 
 States to the Paris Exhibition, greatly honoured his 
 Government and country. 
 
 It will be remembered that the invitation of the 
 French authorities extended to the nations of the earth, 
 owing to a variety of circumstances, was very tardily 
 accepted by the Government of the United States, 
 
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 and that the appropriation made by Congress was 
 inadequate to the purposes for which it was intended. 
 Embarrassed by want of time and lack of means, the 
 Coipmissioner-General, appointed at the last moment, 
 entered upon the discharge of his responsible duties. 
 He has the satisfaction of knowing that his eiForts have 
 been rewarded by the universal appreciation and com- 
 mendation bestowed upon the American section. 
 Much of this success — the importance of which to the 
 people he represents can hardly be overrated — is due 
 to the untiring industry, the capacity, and courtesy 
 of the Commissioner-General. 
 
 I propose the health of Governor McCormick, the 
 guest of the evening, whom I now have the honour to 
 introduce. 
 
 Commissioner-General McCobmick replied : — 
 Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, — For this com- 
 plimentary demonstration, I make to you my most 
 sincere and grateful acknowledgments. To have been 
 chosen as the chief representative of my countrymen 
 at an International Exhibition is no ordinary honour. 
 To have succeeded in pleasing them -in a position so 
 difficult and responsible, is to have obtained the highest 
 possible reward for my exertions. 
 
 It is a source of peculiar gratification to me that all 
 who have been connected with the American depart- 
 ment have worked in harmony ; that the national 
 dignity and honour have been sustained, and that the 
 results of our participation in the latest, and, in many 
 respects, the richest and greatest of universal exhibi- 
 tions, have exceeded our best expectations. To the 
 nerve and promptness of the exhibitors, and to the 
 efficiency of my staiF, I am much indebted, and I 
 
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 appreciate the cordial and encouraging manner in 
 which my labours have been seconded by the diplo- 
 matic and consular representatives of the United 
 States in Paris. With these gentlemen my relations 
 have been of the most agreeable character. 
 
 So far as my engagements have permitted me to 
 meet the Americans resident in Paris — the members of 
 the American Colony, as it is familiarly called — I have 
 found them animated by the same spirit of friendliness, 
 and the same desire to strengthen my hands. If I have 
 been unable to exchange social courtesies with all, it 
 must be charged to the official demands upon my time. 
 
 To those gentlemen who accepted and performed, 
 without compensation, the arduous and delicate work 
 of jurors, the best thanks of the Government are due. 
 
 Mr. Chairman, you have referred to the circum- 
 stances under which the United States entered the 
 contest of the present year. It is but just to the 
 President and Secretary of State to say that they 
 advised early and liberal action upon the part of Con- 
 gress. It is but just, also, to all concerned, to say that 
 the delay upon the part of that body, in authorizing 
 participation in the Exhibition, made it necessary to 
 do in much haste what should have been done with 
 much deliberation. Many of our most eminent manu- 
 facturers and artisans declined to become exhibitors, 
 saying that they could do justice neither to themselves 
 nor to the country within the few months or weeks 
 allowed them for preparation. Scarcely any of the 
 articles shown iu our department were prepared for the 
 exhibition, and in view of this fact, the very general 
 recognition of their merits by the juries must be con- 
 sidered especially complimentary. 
 
 The long lists of awards and honours conferred upon 
 
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 our exhibitors testify to our triumph much better than 
 any language I could employ. It has been said that 
 no other nation exhibited so many new and valuable 
 inventions, so many improvements whose general adop- 
 tion would add to the sum of human comfort and con- 
 venience. 
 
 Let us hope that our national legislators, taking note 
 of the success now obtained under unfavourable condi- 
 tions and restraints, will afford proper time and means 
 for preparation for future international contests in 
 which it may be decided to take part. 
 
 Of the courtesy shown their official guests of this 
 memorable year by the Government of France and 
 the authorities of the Exhibition, I will only say that 
 it has been of the character for which France is justly 
 renowned. The preparations for the Exhibition were 
 upon a scale worthy of a people of liberal political 
 sentiments and having a full appreciation of the inte- 
 rests of the world at large. 
 
 France has nobly vindicated the strength of her new 
 political organization and her , wonderful powers of 
 recuperation. There is a striking parallel in her recent 
 history and that of the United States. Both Republics 
 have, within a few short years, so completely repaired 
 the damages of disastrous war, that the traces of con- 
 flict and disorder are hardly discernible. The results 
 furnish the best possible proof of the ability of ener- 
 getic and resolute peoples, under free institutions, to 
 command power and prosperity in the face of all 
 obstacles. 
 
 I have been more than pleased with the evidences 
 which have come to my notice during the year, not 
 only of the extreme goodwill of the European nations, 
 but also of the confidence and high appreciation in 
 
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 which they hold the government and people of the 
 United States. The belief seems to be universal that, 
 in fertility of invention and ingenious capacity, there 
 is no limit to what may be achieved by the Americans, 
 and that, as we have long known, the natural resources 
 of our country are as inexhaustible as they are varied 
 and valuable. 
 
 I shall return to my native land proud of this gene- 
 ral and generous disposition to recognize the genius of 
 her citizens, the importance of her industrial triumphs 
 and her great capabilities and possibilities, and with 
 an exalted estimate of the mighty mission for huma- 
 nity which she is called upon to fulfil in the destinies 
 of the world. 
 
 " She that lifts up the manhood of the poor, 
 
 She of the open soul and open door, 
 
 With room about her hearth for all mankind." 
 
 The Chairman gave as the next toast, " The 
 Universal Exhibition of 1878 and its success." 
 
 M. GrEOEGES Bergee, Director of Foreign 
 Sections, responded in French : — 
 
 Gentlemen, — I regret exceedingly my inability to 
 express myself in your national tongue. My culpable 
 ignorance of it is the only circumstance which can 
 weaken the brilliant homage that I desire to render to 
 the people of the United States for their presence at 
 the Exhibition of 1878. 
 
 Your people were the last to come to the Champ- 
 de-Mars. Our . affection, strong enough to cross the 
 ocean, never feared that they would be absent. We 
 knew that they also had political and administrative 
 difficulties to overcome. They triumphed over all 
 
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 obstacles, to the honour of both countries, and for the 
 greater success of this enterprise in the interest ot 
 civilization which has just closed. The directors of 
 the Foreign Sections will never forget the surprising 
 efforts that your Commissioner and your agents have 
 made that their section should be in order at the 
 appointed hour. I may add that our aid was of little 
 account in presence of the ingenious activity which 
 they displayed. They say that you are the repre- 
 sentatives of the New "World, that your nation has the 
 privilege of youth, and consequently of strength to 
 such a degree as to render jealous those other countries 
 of the world that have had a longer life and a longer 
 history. I admit it ; but I take pleasure in re-affirm- 
 ing it by evoking the souvenirs of the Exhibition oi 
 the United States that you are young giants, capable 
 of all the prodigies of your elders. Your vigour, born 
 of yesterday, will be so strong to-morrow that you will 
 be able to aid the world by the benefits of commercial 
 liberty, as you have won its admiration by the libe- 
 rality of your institutions. 
 
 Were we to judge peoples by the men that represent 
 them. Minister Noyes and Governor McCormick bear 
 witness that the United States marches at the head of 
 industrial and social process. I think I may render to 
 the persons of these two eminent citizens the homage 
 really their due by sayiag that they are the happy 
 embodiment of the most brilliant qualities of the 
 American character. 
 
 Gentlemen, my relations with Governor McCormick 
 have been constant and daily, and they have always 
 been both agreeable and profitable. I am happy to 
 say, in the presence of his compatriots assembled here, 
 that I have never seen an administrative officer more 
 
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 skilful, more devoted, more impartial, engaged in a 
 task more formidable. France, gentlemen, has not the 
 disinterestedness that is attributed to her. You have 
 paid for her hospitality by bringing to her the infor- 
 mation that two sister nations never refuse to each 
 other. Grovernor McCormick found himself surrounded 
 by Honorary Commissioners, and State Commissioners, 
 whose merit alarmed his modesty. He has known how 
 to live among them, giving to us the example of what 
 a free people can do at home : unite the respect of 
 equality with the accomplishment of duty. He will 
 find in his own conscience, the largest recompense to 
 which he can aspire when it tells him he has never 
 made an enemy. France will preserve the friendly 
 souvenir of his person, and his fellow-citizens will re- 
 ceive him by awarding him the palm due to the victor 
 of peace. 
 
 I think I honour all the people of the United States 
 in proposing a toast to Governor McCormick and all 
 those who have worked with him : In the name of the 
 Minister of Agriculture and of Commerce, and of the 
 French Commissioner-General, who have not been 
 able to be with you this evening, I thank you, gentle- 
 men, American commissioners and exhibitors, for what 
 you have done for France, for the civilized world, and 
 for the cause of labour. 
 
 The Chairman gave as the next toast," The Friend- 
 ship of France and the United States." 
 
 Ex-Governor Bullock, of Massachusetts, said : — 
 
 Mr. Peesident, — It were a strange omission in 
 
 the congratulations of this evening, at the close of the 
 
 Exhibition, if we should not make mention of the 
 
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 mutual relations of France and the United States. 
 The sentiment which you have formulated in a toast 
 is a living sentiment which has a large place in our 
 hearts. It has a place in our history. French names, 
 fragrant with tender memories, are engraved upon the 
 topography of our country, and there they will remain 
 engraved in all time to come. 
 
 The agency of France in the colonization of America 
 was among the most sublime of all historic scenes 
 enacted on that continent, and our historians wiU always 
 hold it up to the admiration of the world. There is 
 nothing in the annals of any country more impressive 
 or more pathetic than the sacrifices of Frenchmen in 
 the early days of our settlement. Moving forward 
 from post to post, always under the banner of their 
 religion, they endured every privation, they encoun- 
 tered every obstacle, they suffered every severity, 
 many of. th^ giving up their lives in heroic martyr- 
 dom, repea.tin'g in the last hour the Latin hymns of 
 their Church — ^hymns which, even then, were a thousand 
 years old. 
 
 At a later period, it is true, there came the conflict 
 of arms between France and the American colonists in 
 the interest of the crown of another country. But it is 
 our just congratulation that such conflict at its close 
 left no root of bitterness inhering on either side. And 
 I count it one of the felicities of our history — a felicity 
 which has few parallels in the records of any country 
 — ;-that since the Treaty of Peace of 1763, signed, I 
 believe, at Fontainebleau, covering now a period of one 
 hundred and twenty-flve years,' there has existed an 
 uninterrupted and unruffled cordial goodwill between 
 these two countries. 
 
 After France, under the Treaty, had vacated her 
 
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 place on that continent every retribution of events 
 tended to bring the two peoples nearer and nearer to- 
 gether. The Duke de Choiseul, who was then in 
 charge here of Foreign Affairs, turned his far-sighted 
 sagacity to the benefit of our enfranchisement ; and if 
 you will read his despatches to the French Minister at 
 London, you will be struck by the sagacity of his 
 prophecy, and your hearts will warm under the mani- 
 festations of his good wishes towards the American 
 people. He, at that early day, was preparing the way 
 for the broader and more decisive policy, which, under 
 the next reign, culminated in tendering us a helping 
 hand to take our place as an independent nation of the 
 world. 
 
 And now the connection brings me more closely to the 
 late Exhibition. We may well rejoice that American 
 mechanism has challenged and received such favour. 
 As I have stood in its presence at the Exhibition, I 
 have thought of some of the recompenses of history. 
 
 Coming down only fifteen years from the Treaty of 
 Fontainebleau, we find an American mechanic estab- 
 lishing his residence in the City of Paris. It was he, 
 the foremost mechanic of the colonies of that day, whose 
 name is still borne as a part of the title name of many 
 of the mechanical institutes of the United States, who 
 secmred to us the friendship and alliance of France for 
 our revolutionary struggle. His quaint and amiable 
 character, his original and remarkable genius, gave him 
 such a hold in the love and veneration of this friendly 
 Court, that the art of drawing was called in to per- 
 petuate his lineaments and theirs for the future remem- 
 brance of the two countries. And I have thought, when 
 looking at the picture of Franklin at the Court of 
 France, that the American mechanic, philosopher, and 
 
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 statesman was constructing better tlian lie knew, better 
 than they knew, for he was giving the touch of destiny 
 to two Republics. He forged the chain of alliance 
 which drew out of the chaos of many colonies the one 
 union of the North American Republic. But the great 
 event was destined to produce not less conspicuous re- 
 sults upon this side of the ocean than upon the other. 
 It was one of those lessons which turn the scale in the 
 fate of nations. It was a lesson which applied its in- 
 struction with equal beneficent effects upon the wide 
 theatre of Europe — out of which the benefactors of our 
 freedom soon became the beneficiaries of their own — 
 out of which, though for long intervals baffled and 
 overborne here, yet never extinguished, we welcome 
 with all our hearts the living and visible presence of 
 the Republic of France. 
 
 At the recent distribution of prizes, when the flag of 
 our distant country came into the building, under the 
 guardian custody of those manly representatives of 
 American discipline, you saw, and heard, and felt the 
 plaudits which rang over the vast amphitheatre, with a 
 freshness and heartiness which, it seemed to me, was 
 accorded in no equal degree to any other nationality. 
 It was the tribute of Frenchmen and Frenchwomen — 
 I saw thousands of the women of France aroimd me 
 who rivalled the enthusiasm of the colder and sterner > 
 sex. It was the spontaneous tribute of Frenchmen and 
 Frenchwomen to the fond recollections of the past. 
 The memories of d'Estaing and Franklin, of Lafayette 
 and Washington, floated in the very air. I do not 
 know how you may have felt, and yet, after all, I think 
 I do. I felt in the satisfaction of that moment, that if 
 I were not an American, I would be only too proud and 
 too happy to be a Frenchman. 
 
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 Heaven grant that the scene may descend into per- 
 manent history, and that the two countries whose 
 mutual friendship has not been seriously interrupted 
 by a passing cloud in all these hundred years, may now, 
 in the presence of the greatest triumph of modern 
 industry, renew their devotion to the arts of peace, and 
 move forward upon their joint and separate mission of 
 maintaining liberty protected by law. 
 
 The Chairman gave as the next toast, " The Com- 
 mercial Relations of France and the United States." 
 
 General Lucius Fairchild, United States 
 Consul-General at Paris, responded : — 
 Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, — It seems cruel, 
 after the beautiful addresses with which we have been 
 favoured this evening, to call your attention to dull 
 facts and figures, but in no other way can I respond to 
 the toast you have assigned me. The commercial 
 relations of France and the United States relate only 
 to the movements of merchandise between the two 
 countries. We have held amicable commercial rela- 
 tions with each other for very many long years. But 
 do the best we can, we Americans have not been 
 enabled to sell to France as much as she has sold to us. 
 We buy largely from her. For the ten years includ- 
 ing 1876, the average annual value of the exports from 
 France to the United States was 328,6l7,000fr., while 
 the average of the exports from the United States to 
 France was 206,680,000fr., showing an average annual 
 balance of trade against us of 124,837,000 fr. For the 
 ten preceding years, 1857-66, the exportations from 
 France to the United States averaged in value annu- 
 ally 233,803,000fr., while the annual average value 
 
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 exportation from the United States to France was only 
 183,864,000fr., showing an average annual balance of 
 trade against us of 49,939,000fr. In 1877 France sold 
 us merchandise valued at 318,436,968fr., and we sold 
 to France merchandise valued at 280,306,096fr., so that 
 the balance of trade against us was only 38,130,872fr., 
 a better showing for us than for the two preceding years. 
 
 It is said that the revenue laws of the two countries 
 are bars to trade, and we know that the question is 
 being largely discussed on both sides of the ocean. 
 For one, I am glad to have the discussion go on. If 
 there is need of change in the laws, the common 
 ground of agreement as to what alterations are required 
 for the interests of both parties will be found, and it 
 can never be found without. We sell to France 
 cotton, tobacco, cereals, grease (not oils), crude and 
 refined petroleum, and a large number of other pro- 
 ducts. We do not sell largely of manufactures, which 
 under more favourable circumstances we might do. 
 We buy of France silk goods, woollen goods, fine 
 skins and fine furs, wiaes, straw goods, and small wares, 
 that is, buttons, trimmings, etc., in great varieties. We 
 buy all these articles of France. 
 
 To indicate the character of the merchandise which 
 passes between the two countries, I need only mention 
 the following facts : 683 vessels arrived in France from 
 the United States in 1877. Of that number only four 
 arrived in ballast. On the other hand, 745 vessels 
 sailed from France to the United States during the 
 same period, of which 224 only sailed with cargoes, and 
 521 cleared in ballast. 
 
 I regret that the proposed exhibition of the variety 
 of ways in which our Indian corn may be used for 
 food was not carried out at the Universal Exhibition. 
 
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 It might have been worth millions of dollars not only 
 to the United States but also to France. But I know 
 that Commissioner- General McCormick has had his 
 hands full and too many demands upon his limited ap- 
 propriation and time to permit him to indulge in 
 experiments. 
 
 I congratulate and compliment him, and his staff, 
 most heartily upon the success which has.crowned their 
 arduous labours. ^ 
 
 The Chairman gave as the next toast, " The Army 
 and Navy of the United States." 
 
 Captain O. C. Badger, of the U.S. ship " Consti- 
 tution," said in response : — 
 
 Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, — I am honoured 
 by your call, and thank you for the toast to the Army 
 and Navy of the United States. The officers of the 
 vessels sent to Havre with goods for the American 
 Department at the Universal Exposition recognize 
 and appreciate the services of Commissioner-General 
 McCormick. I concur in all that has been said re- 
 garding his energy and efficiency, and I am much 
 pleased with his success and that of our exhibitors, who 
 have won so many prizes and so much honour for our 
 nation. How well our goods are esteemed in Europe 
 is shown in the fact that two ships will have suffi- 
 cient freight capacity to carry back to the United 
 States all that remain unsold. I wish to bear testi- 
 mony to the cordial reception and uniform courtesy 
 shown me and my fellow officers of the Navy by the 
 French Minister of Marine and by the port authorities 
 at Havre. 
 
 The Chairman stated that no other toasts had 
 been suggested by the Committee of Arrangements, 
 
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 but that as the hour was not late, he should take the 
 liberty of calling out several gentlemen from whom he 
 knew the company would be glad to hear. 
 
 M. A. Caubeet, of Paris, said in French : — 
 Mr. Chairman and GENTLEMEisr, — Permit me to 
 thank you all for the honour conferred upon me by invit- 
 ing me to the complimentary dinner to the honourable 
 Commissioner-General McCormick, who has so greatly 
 contributed to the success of the United States Section 
 in the Champ-de-Mars. 
 
 There can be no sympathy for a Frenchman more 
 precious than that which comes from the blessed land 
 of Independence. The Exhibition of 1878 has con- 
 firmed the verdict of your splendid Centennial of 1876 
 at Philadelphia. It has proved once more — urbi et 
 orhi — what the genius of a great people, within one 
 century, can accomplish when it has for auxiliaries 
 labour, liberty, and free-schools for all classes. 
 
 I have already had the good fortune, still too rare, 
 even in our days, among Europeans, to visit three 
 times your wonderful country. More than any other, 
 it seems to conform itself to the designs of Providence, 
 for every year it devotes the largest part of its resources 
 to maintain schools — that is to say, to render humanity 
 more perfect. Whilst, in the Old World, we still 
 devote the bulk of our resources to the casting of 
 cannon, and the improvement of arms and engines of 
 destruction. Would not one say, in truth, that in- 
 dustry was choked with applicants for labour ? The 
 modus Vivendi of the United States has already borne 
 fruit, for a broad current of immigration has increased 
 its population tenfold and fertilized a considerable 
 portion of its wide territory. Thanks to the friendly 
 
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 relations of the two Republics, the end of the nineteenth 
 century will witness many other wonders. 
 
 Without doubt, gentlemen, at the beginning of our 
 great international enterprise — a little hazardous, per- 
 haps — on the morning of our disasters, two opposing 
 currents existed. You know the causes. But the 
 good one triumphed. Thanks, especially, to the 
 President and the Corigress of the United States. 
 Without their co-operation success would have been 
 doubtful ; with it, success was certain. 
 
 We beg, therefore, our good friend, Goyemor 
 McCormick, on the eve of his departure, which we so 
 much regret, to be, at Washington, the interpreter of 
 our profound and very sincere gratitude. We will 
 not say to him adieu, but au revoir, for we hope very 
 soon to be able to be present with you all, gentlemen^ 
 at the inauguration, in the beautiful harbour of New 
 York, of the Statue of Liberty, offered by France to 
 our beloved sister of the New World. I have the 
 honour to propose to you, in closing, a toast : — " To 
 the health of all those who, in giving their support to 
 the Exhibition of Paris, have so nobly and liberally 
 contributed to exalt the civilization of France." 
 
 After the toast had been duly honoured, the Chair- 
 man announced the presence of Professor J. Lawrence 
 Smith, of Kentucky, who had been prominently identi- 
 fied with previous International Exhibitions. 
 
 Professor Smith said : — 
 
 Mr. Chairman, — I had not the pleasure of knowing 
 
 Governor McCormick personally until after my recent 
 
 ai-rival in Paris. I had heard much of him and of his 
 
 good management. When I found a man so clear- 
 
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 headed and prompt, I was not surprised at Hs success 
 as Commissioner-General. 
 
 I want also to say something about his distinguished 
 namesake who has won fresh triumphs at the Exhibition 
 of 1878, A man who, unlike Cyrus of old, did not 
 pave his way to victory and honours over the bodies of 
 the dead and dying, illuminating his path by burning 
 cities and villages — but who gained his honours by 
 making his way over the fast-falling stalks of wheat in 
 full ear, and then gracefully gathering them into rich 
 sheaves to fill the garners of the farmers. The inventor 
 of the reaping-machine, Cyrus H. McCormick, has 
 been a benefactor to humanity. While he has not 
 made two blades of grass to grow where one grew 
 before, he has made two blades of wheat as cheap as 
 one, and helped to bless the world with cheap food. 
 "While I would not do injustice to others, it is but 
 justice to say that Cyrus H. McCormick made the 
 reaping-machine a fait accompli, nearly thirty years 
 ago, but the world was some time in realizing its 
 value. 
 
 In 1851, at the first great International Exhibition 
 in London, his machine, as it stood in the hall of the 
 Exhibition, was only a source of merriment to the 
 lookers-on, who called it a cross between an Astley 
 chariot, a wheelbarrow, and a flying-machine. But 
 when this strange-looking object was taken to the field, 
 the jurors were amazed as they saw the wheat-straw 
 fall before it, in regular order, upon the ground, re- 
 quiring many labourers to bind into sheaves the wheat 
 as it fell. They then did honour to this strange animal, 
 and gave to its father a Council Medal, a token of the 
 appreciation of the jury, composed of men from all 
 parts of the world. There were only four Council 
 
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 Medals that went to America. From that time to the 
 present improvement upon improvement has been added 
 to the reaper, and the inventor's honours have accu- 
 mulated upon him, and his honours have become ours 
 as Americans. 
 
 So, gentlemen, let us drink to the health of our 
 absent friend, Cyrus H. McCormick, who would be 
 with us now were he not detained in a sick room, 
 rapidly recovering, I am glad to say, from a serious 
 illness. 
 
 Colonel J. A. Bridgland, United States Consul 
 at Havre, being called upon by the Chairman, 
 spoke substantially as follows : — 
 
 Mr. Chairman, — Nothing that I can say is needed 
 to confirm the success of Commissioner-General 
 McCormick, and the claim he has upon our gratitude. 
 In the United States, where I have just been upon a 
 visit, as in France, it is everywhere admitted that he 
 has admirably performed a great and difficult mission. 
 
 President Hayes spoke of him to me in most com- 
 plimentary terms, and the American people will not 
 forget his faithful and honourable services in Paris. 
 Mr. Chairman, you have humorously alluded to my 
 recent importation of American horses into France. 
 With regard to the capacity of the United States 
 for furnishing horses to Europe, I may say that we 
 have some 14,000,000 horses in America, 2,000,000 of 
 which are too small for the general work of the country. 
 They are not fast trotters in comparison with the 
 celebrities of late years, who make their mile in two 
 minutes, therefore they are of little use to Americans. 
 But no animals can be better fitted for cavalry service. 
 
28 ) 
 
 They have a fine action, plenty of endurance, and good 
 habits. 
 
 Time will not permit me to say more than that I 
 believe the importation of American horses for use in 
 France may become a source of large profit to our 
 country. 
 
 The Chaieman called on General P. D. Eoddey, 
 of Alabama, saying : — 
 I never met that distinguished gentleman but once 
 before, and that was some fifteen years ago, and I am 
 very happy to meet him here to-night. 
 
 General Roddey replied : — 
 At that meeting which you mention, Mr. Chairman, 
 you had me at a great disadvantage (alluding to the 
 fight at Corinth when General Noyes was inside, and 
 General E.oddey outside the fort). But you have 
 taken me now at a still greater disadvantage. I did 
 not expect to be called upon for a speech, and will only 
 add my concurrence in all that has been said in praise 
 of Governor McCormick, who, I am sure, has given 
 the utmost satisfaction to all Americans connected 
 with the Exhibition. 
 
 The Chaikman said the Collective Education Ex- 
 hibit formed a most interesting part of the Exhibi- 
 tion upon the part of the United States, and had 
 received a remarkable recognition at the hands of the 
 jurors and the scholars and students of Europe. He 
 proposed the health of Dr. John D. Philbrick, of 
 Massachusetts, the Superintendent of the Educational 
 Section of the American Department. 
 
 Dr. Philbkick said substantially: — 
 The credit of its successes, as indicated by the constant 
 
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 succession of interested visitors, and the large number 
 of awards by the International Jury, were very largely 
 due to Governor McCormick, who took the initiative 
 and the responsibility of its preparation, and who 
 generously and considerately did all that the means at 
 his command would permit to perfect its arrangements 
 and provisions. As an educator he could not but 
 regard this greatest of all the Universal Exhibitions as 
 a universal school, in which all participants were at 
 once pupils, and teachers, with the Minister of Agri- 
 culture and Commerce as the director-in-chief. The 
 greatest lesson taught by this atid the preceding exhi- 
 bitions was that the first people in respect tcr the 
 capacity to produce articles of utility and beauty is 
 the people which has the best schools. Hence, at 
 the present day, every enlightened statesman, the 
 world over, who wishes his country to compete success- 
 fully in the grand concourse of the industries, labours 
 to perfect its schools. 
 
 Dr. Philbrick concluded by expressing his thanks 
 for the assistance, the courtesies, and the hospitality 
 which he had received in the discharge of his duties, 
 from the French educational officials of all grades, 
 from the Mipister of Public Instruction to the teachers 
 in the elementary schools. 
 
 The Chairman read the following telegram from 
 Sir Philip CunUffe Owen, Secretary of the Koyal 
 British Commission, to the Universal Exposition : — 
 
 London, November 26, 1878. 
 To the Chairman of the Banquet to Commissioner- 
 General McCormick, Continental Hotel, Paris. 
 
 SiE, — I have explained by letter to Governor McCor- 
 
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 mick that unavoidable absence by command has alone 
 prevented my having the pleasure of joining you in 
 doing honour to my friend the able Commissioner- 
 General for the United States. 
 
 Philip Cunlipfb Owen. 
 
 The Chairman announced that letters had been 
 received by the Committee of Arrangements from 
 General II. S. Grant, the French Conomissioner- 
 General (Senator J. B. Krantz), and Sir Philip 
 Cunliffe Owen, Secretary of the British Commission. 
 
 The company then adjourned to the reception and 
 smoking rooms, and separated shortly after midnight. 
 
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 LETTERS RECEIYED 
 
 From General U. S. Grant 
 
 Malaga, Spain, November 18, 1878. 
 Dear Sir,-- 
 
 HAVE the pleasure to acknowledge the 
 receipt of your kind invitation, on behalf 
 of a Committee of Americans, to a Com- 
 plimentary Dinner to be given Governor 
 
 SlcCormick, on the twenty-sixth of this month, and 
 I regret that my engagements are such that I cannot 
 be in Paris at so early a day. 
 
 Recognizing the. eminent services of Governor 
 McCormick, as Chief Commissioner of the United 
 States to the recent International Exposition, at Paris, 
 I would not fail to be present if it were possible. 
 
 Please thank the Committee for their invitation. 
 Truly yours, 
 
 U. S. Grant. 
 
 John Munkob, Esq. 
 
 Secretary cf Committee. 
 
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 From Senator J. B. Keantz, Commissioner- 
 General of the Universal Exposition. 
 
 Paris, November 23, 1878. 
 Deae Sie, — 
 
 OTWITHSTANDING the great plea^ 
 sure it would give me to be present at your 
 Dinner in honour of the Commissioner- 
 General of the United States, I dare not 
 
 promise to attend, as I am, at the present time, afflicted 
 with a sprained ankle. Should I recover sufficiently 
 by the 26th, I shall be with you. 
 
 In the meantime I beg that you will receive, for 
 yourself and your colleagues, my affectionate thanks. 
 
 Receive, my dear sir, the assurance of my perfect 
 consideration. 
 
 J. B. Keantz. 
 
 To Mk. John Munboe, 
 Secretary, 
 
 From SiE Philip Cunliffe Owen, Secretary of 
 the British Commission. 
 
 SoTTH Kensington Museum, 
 
 London, T\ov. 23, 1878. 
 Mt deae Sie, — 
 
 HAD promised myself the pleasure of 
 returning to Paris to-morrow night, to 
 have the opportunity of showing, by my 
 presence, my approval of the compliments 
 
 which your countrymen are to pay you at the banquet 
 on Tuesday next. 
 
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 But I have been summoned to attend Her Majesty's 
 conunands on Wednesday next, at Windsor, when it is 
 Her Majesty's intention to confer upon me the honour 
 of knighthood in connection with the distinguished 
 order she has been pleased to give to me. 
 
 Should I go to Paris, I must leave that city at the 
 hour your banquet is to begin. I shall therefore not 
 be able to respond in person to the invitation of your 
 countrymen, or to join in bearing public testimony to 
 the manner in which you have done honour to your 
 country, and by which you have gained the esteem 
 and admiration of all who have had the privilege of 
 coming in contact with you. 
 
 Believe me ever, my dear Governor, 
 Your sincere friend, 
 
 Philip' Cunliffe Owen. 
 
 To GOVKRNOR McCoRMICK. 
 
 From Senator Teisserenc de Bort, Minister of 
 Agriculture and Commerce. 
 
 , Versailles, 27tA November, 1878. 
 
 HAD accepted with peculiar pleasure the 
 invitation which was sent to me by the 
 Committee of American residents in Paris, 
 to assist at the farewell banquet offered to 
 the honourable Mr. McCormick, the Commissioner- 
 General for the United States. 
 
 I had wished to seize upon the occasion to felicitate 
 
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34 
 
 and thank the great nation of America, our dear sister 
 Republic, for her large and brilliant participation in 
 our Universal Exposition. 
 
 I had also proposed to myself to render public and 
 well-merited homage to the talent displayed by Com- 
 missioner-General McCormick and his assistants in 
 the organization of the Exhibition on the part of the 
 United States ; and to the prompt co-operation they 
 have always given us, and to the cordiality of the 
 relations which have existed between us. 
 
 Finally, I had wished to speak of the striking suc- 
 cess which has attended the intelligent efforts and 
 skilful exertions of the Americans. 
 
 But an unexpected official duty detained me at 
 Versailles, and made it impossible for me to be at the 
 banquet. 
 
 I now express to you my lively regrets, and pray 
 you to interpret them to the Committee and to the 
 C ommissioner-General. 
 
 I offer to you at the same time the expression of my 
 distinguished consideration. 
 
 The Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, 
 
 Teisserenc de Bort. 
 
 To Mr. John Munbob, Secretary. 
 
TRIBUTE 
 
 OF THE 
 
 EXHIBITORS 
 
CORRESPONDENCE 
 
 Paris, October 30, 1878. 
 Hon. E. C. McCoEMiCK, Commissioner-General. 
 
 Dear Sir, — 
 
 IHE undersigned, a Committee on behalf 
 of a number of Exhibitors from the 
 United States, desire that you will 
 name a day on which said Exhibitors 
 -.=^ ■ .-,.r~ -=^w can wait upon you for the purpose of 
 expressing their personal esteem and appreciation of 
 your faithful, efficient, and honourable services as 
 Commissioner-General for the United States to the 
 Universal Exposition of 1878. 
 
 Very truly yours, 
 J. O. Woods, of Wheeler and Wilson Manufacturing 
 
 Co. 
 Herman Marcus, of Tiffany and Co. 
 E. T. Bell, of W. J. Wilcox and Co. 
 W. R. Page, of Howe Scale Co. 
 Geo. R. Ostheimer, of Ostheimer Brothers. 
 
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 Paris, November 1, 1878. 
 
 Gentlemen, — 
 
 BEG you to accept my best thanks for 
 your very complimentary communication 
 of the 30th ult. Please inform the Exhi- 
 bitors that it will gratify me to receive 
 them, or so many of them as can make it convenient 
 to attend, at my rooms in the Hotel Windsor, Rue de 
 Rivoli, on Thursday evening, the 7th instant, at eight 
 o'clock. 
 
 Yery sincerely yours, 
 
 R. C. McCOEMICK. 
 
 To Messrs. J. O. Woods, 
 
 Herman Marcus, 
 E. T. Bbll, 
 W. R. Page, 
 
 Geo. R. OSTHEIMER, 
 
 Committee. 
 
TRIBUTE OF THE EXHIBITORS 
 
 I HE Exhibitors in the United States 
 Department of the Universal Exposi- 
 tion, to the number of fifty or more 
 (many having returned to the United 
 States), met at the Hotel Windsor, 
 on Thursday evening, November 7th, 1878, at eight 
 o'clock. 
 
 Shortly after that hour Mr. J. O. Woods, Chair- 
 man of the Committee, addressed Commissioner-Gene- 
 ral McCormick in the following words, viz. : — 
 
 Mr. Commissioneb-Genekal, — A number of the 
 exhibitors in the American Section of the International 
 Exhibition have charged me with the pleasant oiEce 
 of thanking you for your faithful and impartial ser- 
 vices in their behalf, and expressing to you their 
 sentiments of personal regard. 
 
 We are proud of our flattering success as exhibitors, 
 but more proud of the patriotic and honourable men 
 who have officially represented our interests in con- 
 nection with the Exhibition, and we are glad to pre- 
 sent them to the Old World as the product of our free 
 institutions. 
 
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 We profit by this occasion to thank, through you, 
 the President and Congress of the United States for 
 the facilities placed at our disposal, and we desire to 
 thank the members of the International Jury for their 
 efficient and successful labours. We wish to express, 
 also, our appreciation of our treatment by the Exhi- 
 bition authorities, and of the many courtesies shown 
 us by the liberal and sympathetic Government of 
 Kepublican France, which has preserved in our gene- 
 ration the spirit of friendship so long existing between 
 the two nations. 
 
 Sir, please receive herewith the works of art in 
 bronze, called "Venus Armed" and an "Egyptian 
 Priestess," purchased for you from the French Depart- 
 ment of the Exhibition, by the voluntary contribu- 
 tions of American exhibitors, as a testimonial of their 
 gratitude and esteem. As long as bronze shall last, 
 may they be a pleasing memorial of the Exhibition of 
 1878, and of our entire satisfaction with your official 
 and personal conduct in connection therewith. 
 
 Mr. McCoEMiCK spoke in reply as follows, viz. : — 
 SiK, — I am deeply sensible of the compliment you 
 have paid me on behalf of the United States exhibitors 
 at the Universal Exhibition. 
 
 It was not without hesitation that I accepted the 
 office of Commissioner-General. To represent a great 
 people abroad is, under any circumstances, a delicate 
 duty. To do so at an International Exhibition is to 
 undertake a peculiar responsibility. I am not blind to 
 the fact that, however much of energy and care I may 
 have given, the success of the American department is 
 mainly due to the exhibitors. Their prompt response 
 at short notice, and the part they have taken, in many 
 
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 instances at a large outlay, are creditable to their 
 enterprise and public spirit, and well illustrate the cha- 
 racter which has given the American people a com- 
 manding position among the nations of the earth. 
 
 The results of the Exhibition leave us nothing of 
 which to be ashamed, but much in which to take pride 
 and satisfaction. 
 
 If not as showy and fascinating as some of the 
 departments, om-s has abounded in articles calculated 
 to promote the convenience and comfort of mankind. 
 The eminently useful and practical character of our 
 inventions, and the value of our products were so 
 apparent as to generally compel recognition at the 
 hands of the jurors. 
 
 In a wide field of competition, and under many dis- 
 advantages, we have received, in proportion to the 
 number of our exhibits more awards than any other 
 nation participating in the Exhibition. 
 
 It is true that while many Americans have received 
 awards, a few, of the merits of whose exhibits there can 
 be no question, have been overlooked. This seems in- 
 evitably the case at every great Exhibition. It does 
 not necessarily follow, however, that such exhibitors 
 win have visited Paris in vain. The people of Europe 
 have acted as jurors themselves, and doubtless dis- 
 covered the worth of all articles of real merit. 
 
 The relations of the exhibitors with each other and 
 with the Exhibition authorities have been uniformly 
 harmonious and pleasant, and I concur with you in 
 appreciating highly the welcome we have received from 
 the Government of France — a welcome the more to be 
 valued by us as coming from a sister Republic, which 
 must have its life and power in the hearts of the people. 
 
 The two Republics may well be proud of their vie- 
 
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 tories of peace, victories which the poet has well said 
 are not less renowned than those of war, and the world 
 may rejoice that all which- tends to stimulate intelli- 
 gence, industry and profitable rivalry, has received a 
 fresh impulse. in this eventful and triumphant year. 
 
 Again I thank you and all who have contributed to 
 the success of the American department. To have won 
 from the exhibitors such expressions of appreciation as 
 you have uttered in their behalf will-go far to compen- 
 sate me for the constant, and often perplexing, laboiir 
 which my official duty has involved since December last. 
 
 The stately and artistic figures in bronze, which you 
 now present to me in such graceful terms, will be pre- 
 served as an enduring evidence of the friendship and 
 goodwill of the exhibitors, and ever prized as a memento 
 of most pleasant official and personal relations. 
 
 Mr. "Woods then presented Mrs. McCormick a superb 
 basket of flowers, and the visitors were invited to a 
 collation, over which there was great good cheer. 
 
CCOMP ANTING the works of art tlie 
 Commissioner-General was presented with 
 a handsomely bound volume containing 
 the following address and signatures of 
 exhibitors, viz : — 
 
 To the Honorable Richard C. McCormick, 
 
 Commissioner-General of the United States at the 
 
 Paris Exposition, 1878. 
 
 Dear Sir, — ^We, exhibitors of the United States 
 at the Paris Exposition of 1878, beg you to accept 
 the accompanying objects of art, as a testimonial of our 
 cordial personal esteem and high appreciation of your 
 faithful and efficient services as Commissioner-General 
 at said Exposition. 
 
 Congratulating you upon the very successful results 
 
 of your administration. 
 
 We are, very respectfully. 
 
 Abbey, Charles, an d Son s. 
 Abbndroth Bbothbrs. 
 Adkiancb, Platt, and Co. 
 AiK-EN, Lambert, and Co. 
 Allen, John, and Sons. 
 American Watch Co. 
 Anheuser, E., and Co. 
 Balder, Adamson, and 
 Co. 
 
 J. O. Woods. 
 
 Herman Marcus. , 
 
 „ ™ T. I Com- 
 
 E. T. Bell. r .„ 
 
 W. R. Page. 
 
 Geo. R. Ostheimer.' 
 
 Adams and Shaler. 
 American Society op 
 Civil Engineers. 
 
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 Bailey Weinginq Ma- 
 
 CHINB Co. 
 Barney and Berry. 
 Bailey, T. H. 
 Babntjm, Richardson, and 
 
 Co. 
 BiEN, Julius. 
 Benckb and Co. 
 Bbbgner and Engbl. 
 Best, Philip, Brewing 
 
 Co. 
 
 BiSTORPF, BiTHMANN, AND 
 
 Co. 
 
 Blabon, George W. 
 
 Bliss and Williams. 
 
 Bracher, T. W. 
 
 Bradley, Mrs. M. 
 
 Brewster and Co. 
 
 Brown, A. and F. 
 
 Brown and Sharpe Manu- 
 facturing Co. 
 
 Brown, E. Parmly. 
 
 Butler, Dunn, and Co. 
 
 Byrne, Dr. John. 
 
 Baker, H. J., and Bro- 
 ther. 
 
 Barnes and Merritt. 
 
 Barrows, H. F., and Co. 
 
 Brewers' Journal. 
 
 Bulkley, J. E., and Son. 
 
 Centennial Photograph 
 Company. 
 
 Clark, B. T. 
 
 Clark, George. 
 
 Clough and Williamson. 
 
 Clough and Warren. 
 
 CoppiN, Altemus, and Co. 
 
 collender, h. w. 
 
 Cortland Waggon Ma- 
 nufacturing Company. 
 
 Crane Brothers Manu- 
 facturing Co. 
 
 Crane and Co. 
 
 Corcoran, A. F. 
 
 Calleby, James, and Co. 
 
 Chatfield and Gould. 
 
 Clausen, H., and Son. 
 
 Coates, A. W., AND Co. 
 
 Davis, John G., and Son. 
 
 Deere and Co. 
 
 Delamateb, C. H., and Co. 
 
 DtxoN, Joseph, Crucible 
 Company. 
 
 Douglas, W. and B. 
 
 Douglas Axe Manufac- 
 turing Company. 
 
 Day, Austin G. 
 Edison, Thomas A. 
 Fairbanks, E. and T., and 
 
 Co. 
 Fay, J. A., and Co. 
 Field, A., and Sons. 
 Frazer Lubricator Com- 
 pany. 
 Fbeeland, Robert. 
 Frantz, D., and Son. 
 Gray, Elisha. 
 GoFF, Lyman B. 
 Goodyear, Henry B. 
 Gould's, M., Sons. 
 Gubelman, Theodore. 
 Gaenssler Brothers. 
 Grocers' Packing Com- 
 pany. 
 Groetzingbr, a. and J. 
 Gutekunst, F. 
 Hagstoz and Thorpe. 
 Hancb Bros, and White. 
 Hardbick,H.G.,andSons. 
 Hartshorn, Stewart. 
 
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 Hayes, George. 
 Henning and Co. 
 Herring, Parrell, and 
 
 Sherman. 
 Hicks, William H, 
 Hines and Ginna. 
 Hoopes and Townsend. 
 hotohkiss, h. g. 
 Howe Scale Compaw^. 
 Hale and Parshall. 
 Hbim, Anton. 
 Hercules Lever Jack Co. 
 HoLLiNGER, Amos. 
 
 . HORTON, G. B. 
 
 HuRTT, F. W., AND Bro- 
 thers. 
 
 HOYT, J. B., AND Co. 
 
 IVERS, p. 
 
 J.ENKINS, F. W., AND BrO. 
 
 Johnston, E. S. 
 Johnston Harvester Co. 
 Jewell, P., and Sons. 
 Kimball, W. S., and Co. 
 Relly, W. J. 
 Kaufman, G., and Co. 
 Keck and Mosseb. 
 
 KUNTZ, J. AND S. p. 
 
 La France Manufactur- 
 ing COMPANT. 
 
 Lalance and Grosjean 
 
 Manufacturing Co. 
 Larrabee, E. J., AND Co. 
 Leeds, L. W., and Co. 
 Laflin, J. M. 
 Lapham, O. K. 
 Lehnert, Henry G. 
 Lemp, W. J. 
 
 Lewis Brothers and Co. 
 LiBBET, James L. 
 Lippinoott, William H. 
 
 Lobdell Car Wheel Co. 
 
 LOEWBNBERG, HeNRY. 
 
 LovELL, John P., and Sons. 
 Lapham, Smibert, and Co. 
 Lassales, Charles, and 
 
 Co. 
 Leas and MoVitty. 
 
 LOVBGROVE AND Co. 
 
 McCormick, Cyrus H. 
 McShanb, Henry, and Co. 
 Maillard, Henry. 
 Mason and Hamlin Or- 
 gan Company. 
 Mason, Volney W., and 
 
 Co. 
 Massey, G. B. 
 Meehan, Thomas. 
 Mersbreau, W. T. and J. 
 Meyer, Conrad, andSons. 
 Morris, Wheeler, and 
 
 Co. 
 Muhr's, H., Sons. 
 Murphy's, William F., 
 
 Sons. 
 Manning, Charles E. 
 Massey, William C, and 
 
 Co. 
 Mitchell, Henry. 
 Nason Manufacturing 
 
 Co. 
 New York Desiccating 
 
 Company. 
 Nathan and Dreyfus. 
 National Car Spring Co. 
 National Suspender Co. 
 New York Consolidated 
 
 Card Company. 
 New York Silicate Book 
 
 Slate Company. 
 Nonotuck Silk Company. 
 
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 Open Stove Ventilating 
 Company. 
 
 Osborne, C. S., and Com- 
 pany. 
 
 OsBonNB, D. M., Mantj- 
 FACTtTRiNO Company. 
 
 OsTHEiMER Brothers. 
 
 Olmstead, F. L. 
 
 Olmsted, Ji. H. 
 
 Page, W. H., Wood Type 
 Company. 
 
 Palmitre and Thomas. 
 
 Pattbebg, Lewis, and 
 Brother. 
 
 Pennsylvania File 
 Works. 
 
 Pbnnypackbb and Bro- 
 ther. 
 
 Pullman Palace Car Co. 
 
 Pearoe, W. N. 
 
 Providence Tool Co. 
 
 Packer, Charles W. 
 
 Palbn, George, and Co. 
 
 Pbntlargb, R. 
 
 quintard, e. a. 
 
 Beading Hardware Co. 
 
 Hbyholds, John. 
 
 Reed, John Van D. 
 
 Russell and Erwin Ma- 
 nufacturing Company. 
 
 Rollins, J. G. 
 
 Bosbtti, Francesco. 
 
 Reuteb and Alley. 
 
 St. Louis Stamping Co. 
 
 Sachsb, F., and Son. 
 
 ScHiEREN, Charles A. 
 
 sohiepfelin, w. h., and 
 Company. 
 
 schultz, southwiok and 
 Company. 
 
 Sebpbldt, William F. 
 
 Semple, Samuel, and 
 Sons. 
 
 Sharp's Rifle Company. 
 
 Sheblb and Fisher. 
 
 Slote, Woodman and Com- 
 pany. 
 
 Snyder Brothers. 
 
 Stanley Rule and Level 
 Company. 
 
 Stephenson, John, Co. 
 
 Stiepf, Charles M. 
 
 Salmon and De Stuckle. 
 
 St. Martin and That- 
 cher. 
 
 Sloan, Thomas J. 
 
 Sternheim, E. 
 
 Sarony, Napoleon. 
 
 SCHLESINGER, LeO AND Co. 
 
 ScHOLL, Bruno. 
 Seavey, Lafayette W. 
 Simon, Edw;ard, and Bro- 
 ther. 
 Striedinger and Dobr- 
 
 FLINGBR. 
 
 Studwell, Sanger, and 
 
 Company. 
 Thurber, H. K. and F. B., 
 
 AND Company. 
 Tiffany and Co. 
 TiLDEN, William, and 
 
 Stokes. 
 Terqubm, Em. 
 Tower, John J. 
 Trigg, George P. 
 
 TiLDEN AND Co. 
 
 Thorne, McFarlane and 
 
 Company. 
 Tilt, B. B., and Son. 
 ToBiN, Joseph F. 
 
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 TOCHFARBEB, FkANK, ASD 
 
 Company. 
 Upham, Tucker, and Co. 
 Walton Brothers. 
 Warder, Mitoheli. and 
 
 Company. 
 Warner Brothers. 
 Warner, William R. and 
 
 Co. 
 Welsh and Lea. 
 Wharton, Joseph. 
 Wheelock, Jerome. 
 
 White, Dr. S. S. 
 
 Wilcox, W. J., and Co. 
 
 Wilson Packing Co. 
 
 Wood, Walter A. 
 
 Wood, William Anson. 
 
 Wrights, Joshua, and 
 Sons. 
 
 Wheeler and Wilson 
 Manufacturing Com- 
 pany. 
 
 Walker, Oakley, and Co. 
 
 Zipp, Philip C. 
 
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