8 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



nuisances, and directed the governors, on information of two 

 witnesses under oath, to canse the same to be abated within 

 thirty days, or forfeit the sum of £500. 



Thus early the people of New England, against the remon- 

 strances and even commands of the parent country, established 

 and carried on manufacturing. The business was continued 

 and increased after the separation, and has been carried on 

 under varying circumstances to the successful results of the 

 present time. And now New England is known at home and 

 abroad as the manufacturing section, as fully and universally 

 as the West is known as the grain-growing, and the South as 

 the cotton-o:rowin«f sections. 



The facts and results of this long experience, as well as the 

 certain operations of natural causes, point to Ncav England as 

 the manufacturing centre of the country in the future as in 

 the past. 



The people of other sections may, to a limited extent, carry 

 on successfully some of the coarser manufactures, in which but 

 little skilled labor is employed, and may in exceptional times, 

 as within the last few years, attempt with temporary success 

 to establish ot'ier manufactures, but when the affairs of the 

 country are brought back to their normal condition, it will be 

 found that such experiments will result in foilure. 



The people of New England, with the advantages of the 

 system of reciprocity throughout the country as in the past, 

 will always be able to control the markets of the country in 

 manufactured articles against any domestic competition, and 

 largely, in time, against any competition from abroad; and 

 with the future groAvth of the different sections, no man can 

 calculate the proportions to which our manufacturing indus- 

 tries will expand, or the amouut of prosperity which their 

 expansion will bring not only to the agricultural, but to every 

 other industry of our section. 



It is impossible for the people of the United States to over- 

 estimate the value of the system of government inaugurated 

 by their fathers. Under it vast communities, which under 

 other circumstances would have groAvn into independent na- 

 tionalities, move in perfect harmony, each independent in the 

 exercise of the rights of self-government, and all united in 

 their intercourse with each other and with the world. And 



