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hammer or furnace, was prohibited by solemn act of parliament ; 

 penalty, £200, or one thousand dollars, for each offence. 



Such, in poverty and oppression of royal prerogative, was our 

 endeared New England one hundred years ago ! And what is 

 New England to-day ? What her wealth, her freedom, and her 

 power ? What has the spirit of her sons and daughters, at the 

 plough, the distaff, the hoe, the churn, the anvil, the loom, the 

 Primer and the Bible, in the name of Israel's God and His 

 Christ, here wrought ? What deep thought, dauntless courage, 

 indomitable enterprise and holy love have been here ? What 

 noble-hearted and strong-handed men and women have prayed, 

 and wept, and toiled, and died, and in silence and glory sleep 

 amid these valleys and hill-sides ? Behold our cities, towns, 

 villages, farms, shops, furnaces, forges, factories, warehouses, 

 shipyards, railroads, steamers, whaling vessels, banks, school- 

 houses, colleges and sanctuaries, all keeping time with the 

 ceaseless anthem of our waterfalls, anvils, looms, spindles, axes, 

 planes, hammers and saws, as they sing — Work ! work ! work ! 



Look at all this and tell me, if with her 10,550,594 acres of 

 cultivated surface, and her $12,937,290 worth of farming uteri-* 

 sils, and her some 200,000 strong-handed and intelligent sons 

 to use them, New England cannot support herself! 



