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need of affiftancc may arife from various caufes.— The manufafture 

 may be a new one — there may exift a dangerous competition, fup- 

 ported by fuperior capital and ikill, the manufaiflure may require large 

 and expenfive machinery, it may have been difcouraged by bad laws, — 

 the country may be deficient in capital. — In all thefe cafes, it may be 

 neceffary, to counteracT: the operation of the caufes, that prevent or 

 retard the progrefs of a manufadlure, by the cheering influence of boun- 

 ties. As a depreffing force has been employed, to bend and warp 

 our manufaftures ; it may be wife, to depart from the ordinary maxims 

 of national prudence, and employ fome degree of force, to bend them 

 in the oppofite direftion, that they may be reflored to their due form 

 and reftitude. this force we apply, when we grant bounties. 



It may be proper, to grant bounties, for a feafon, to new manufac- 

 tures, of a promifmg complexion. In the infancy of an undertaking, a 

 feries of experiments, doubtful in their iffue, are to be encountered ; 

 a number of probationary lofles to be fuftained. Add to this the pre- 

 judices, that mud be conquered, and above all, the deflruftive and uni- 

 verfal prejudice, whether founded in indolence, or envy, which predif- 

 pofes people, to augur ill to the fuccefs, of new undertakings. Far 

 different is the cafe, where the benefit of experience has been already 

 gained, the incentives of profit have been already felt, and the com- 

 munity, or the individual is pofTefTed with a ftrong partiality, for a fa- 

 vourite branch, of manufafture, long and fuccefsfully exercifed. 



In every cafe, where bounties are afligned, for the fupport and en- 

 couragement of manufadures ; it muft be, in the hope and belief, that 

 the manufafture, in queftion, though now unable to maintain itfelf, or march 

 alone, will acquire fuch ftrength and maturity, in the courfe of time, as to 

 be able to repay with intercft, that fupport, which it now derives from public 

 tounty, and to become, inftead of a national lofs and burthen, a national 

 fource of opulence and profperity. It would be the height of mad- 

 nefs and folly, to give bounties, for the -encouragement of manufac- 

 tures, on any other principle than this ; and, far better would it be, 



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