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and all, of whatever name, whetlierin churclior instate, who with 

 their policies and strategies, and servilities, and orthodoxies, 

 and compromises, and hjpocracies, and apostacies, affect to mo- 

 nopolize soul saving, and freedom saving, and union saving, and 

 world saving exclusively to themselves, that you too have some- 

 what to do in this great work, and, that God aiding you, you 

 are resolved fearlessly and manfully to perform it. 



Undoubtedly it is bad policy to concentrate either power or 

 monies in the hands of the General Government of the Union ; 

 and good policy for freemen to rely more on voluntary elfort 

 than on government patronage and protection, for all the ele- 

 ments of progress. For although Uncle Sam is a clever old 

 gentleman, his breeches pockets seem always to be dreadful full 

 of holes ; and his loose coppers are as likely to scatter out for 

 uhworthy uses, as his commissions and appointments are to fall 

 into ignoble hands. Still, so long as the industrial classes pay 

 at least nine-tenths of all the money that is either used or 

 wasted, and constitute nine-tenths of all the people, and hold 

 nine-tenths of all the property of the Union. I cannot see, 

 while the cash and commissions are flying at your cost in all 

 directions, why a few coppers and places should not fall to your 

 share. You need a distinct agricultural department in the gov- 

 ernment. You need distinct endowments for Industrial Univer- 

 sities, especially adapted to the wants of agriculture and the 

 mechanic arts, in each State in the Union. The government is 

 abundantly able to grant you these aids ; and when they have 

 done it in the most generous and friendly manner, they will 

 not have restored to you one tenth of what you have paid away, 

 to foster other and less worthy rival pursuits. Grant, if you 

 please, that much of the money so appropriated may be misused 

 or wasted. My plain answer still is, that some part of the 

 monies of government may as well be wasted on you who pay 

 it, as on rival interests which do not pay it. I would commend 

 to your serious attention the able and eloquent report of the 

 Hon. D. P. Hollo way, to the house of representatives, in 1856, 

 on one branch of this all-important subject ; and to the recent 

 action of the U. S. Agricultural Society, and to other societies. 



