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this great political success is paralleled only by the material 

 prosperity which the system has conferred npon the whole 

 people. Listead of each community living upon and conform- 

 ing its industries to its own natural productions alone, all, 

 Avithout restriction and without payment of tribute, bring the 

 choicest products of their soil and labor to the common 

 market. 



Of the immense variety of productions, those that one sec- 

 tion can furnish cheaper than the others it offers to all, and 

 those which any section can purchase cheaper than it can 

 produce, it buys of the others, and the people of each section 

 concentrate their effoiis on what they can produce to the 

 greatest profit. 



And may we not with confidence anticipate the clay, when 

 in the light of a higher civilization, the selfishness of commu- 

 nities will yield to the broader and nobler spirit of a common , 

 humanity, when all the nations of the civilized world will 

 cooperate to abolish the offices of customs, to disband the 

 armies of stipendiaries they support, and open wide the mar- 

 kets of the world under a system of universal reciprocity ? 

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