Of all meetings which take place in the course of a year, there are
none attended with such universal good as an agricultural meeting,
because here all classes can meet, whereas in nearly all other
meetings the attendances are of a sectional character. For instance,
race meetings--many people think them wrong and never attend them.
Then there are Church Extension and Missionary Meetings--a great many
do not like to attend them. But as to agricultural meetings,
everybody seems to like to attend them, from the clergy to the racing
man, the mechanic, the agricultural labourer, and the meetings must,
therefore, promote a deal of harmony among classes. An agricultural
meeting is much more effective than the proceedings of Messrs. Bright
and Cobden, who are going about preaching a war of classes.
_Tredegar Show,
December 15th, 1863._