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and how shall we enlarge them, and bring ourselves up to the 

 full measure of our duty to ourselves, our country, and the 

 world ? and how will our farmers sustain the competition 

 which commerce creates between them and the agricultu- 

 rists of the world ? We are now relieved from the difl&culties 

 with which the early settlers had to contend. Want, privation 

 and sutfering are comparatively unknown; our fertile fields have 

 been prepared for use by the hardy and brave men who have gone 

 before us : science and mechanical skill have given us convenient 

 implements to aid us in our labors ; our houses and barns are 

 built; our country is filled with institutions of learning and re- 

 ligion ; capital can be obtained with comparative ease, to enable 

 us to manage our affairs to the best advantage ; w5 have abundant 

 facilities for sending our productions to market, and a demand for 

 them which enables us to sell them for money upon some terms. 

 It is a remarkable fact that every county in this great State either 

 borders upon some navigable sea, lake or river, or is traversed by 

 a canal or railroad, either completed or in process of construction, 

 all communicating with oar great commercial emporium. We 

 have now no ^' sequestered regions " in the Empire State. These 

 improvements must immediately give us a great addition to our 

 wealth and population. 



The houses of many of our farmers contain articles of comfort 

 and luxury unknown to royalty two centuries since, and our citi- 

 zens who will inform themselves with respect to the domestic 

 comforts of the Henrys and Edwards of England, will congratulate 

 themselves that they are sovereign citizens here, rather than 

 kings and queens, when a piece of carpet was considered so in- 

 dicative of royalty, that a strip laid at the foot of the throne gave 

 rise to the term " Carpet Knight," to distinguish those who re- 

 ceived their knighthood in the palace, and not on the battlefield. 



There is much also in the physical character of our country, to 

 excite our admiration. Its vaiiety of climate and productions, 

 and the magnificence of its natural arrangements, apparently de- 

 signed for commerce and intercourse upon a vast scale; its great 

 inland seas and rivers, whose united length would span the world. 

 Our present condition is not only one of great prosperity but the 

 highest anticipations are excited for the future. Cities, towns 



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