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Georgia, the banner State of the South, is nobly redeeming herself from the 

 thraldom of this sentiment. The loom and the spindle have already brought 

 her into honorable competition with the industrial agencies of tlie North, and 

 are awakening her Agriculture to an energy and a thrift, which follow only 

 in the train of Art. 



Let me say, then, to the farmers of Wisconsin, whose voice is potential in the 

 councils of the State, that they can confer no greater boon on Agriculture, than 

 to invite the Arts in all their variety, to come and make their permanent abode 

 in our midst. By a system of liberal, just, and wise legislation, affording facilities 

 for permanent investment, closing the avenues to fraud, and enforcing rigidly the 

 performance of contracts, manufacturing capital will be induced to break away 

 from its moorings abroad, and come and cast anchor, without distrust, upon our 

 shores. 



Agriculture could do nothing more suicidal, nothing more calculated to retard 

 the growth and maturity of Wisconsin, than to countenance that naiTow pohcy 

 which would deny to capital, on our own ground, that facility of combination 

 and that permanence of arrangement, which long experience, elsewhere, has 

 demonstrated to be needful to the full and profitable development of the useful 

 Arts. 



II. The proposition next in order, in the discussion of this part of the subject, 

 is, that Agriculture, in common with the Arts, is interested in the prosperity of 

 Commerce. 



It is a fact easily apprehended, that all the items of physical wealth, that is, 

 all produced values, are the results of Agricultural and Manufacturing agency. 

 Agriculture and Manufacture cover, the whole ground of the production of 

 values. 



But the extreme division of labor and of employments, the secret of the 

 stupendous production of modern times, begets the necessity of an extended 

 system of exchanges, for the mutual benefit of the producers; and owing to the 

 different and sometimes distant localities of production, transjoortaiion for the 

 most part precedes exchange. 



To effect this transportation and exchange — to take commodities from the 

 hands of the producer, and place them in the hands of the consumer — is the 

 precise ofiice work of Commerce. Of the whole produced value of Agriculture 

 and Manufacture, Commerce then, must take to itself that share which is, on 

 an average, a fair remuneration for this service; leaving in the hands of pro- 

 ducers a balance far exceeding in amount and value their whole production, 

 pro^^ded the producers were obliged to effect transportation and exchanges for 

 themselves. 



But, although on the principle of the division of labor and of employments. 



