s Preface. 



in which the eiForts of individuals will be aided and cherish- 

 ed by legislative patronage, and pecuniary support. Our 

 state will then hold its proper rank among our neighbours j 

 and our natural and local advantages, remain no longer in- 

 active. Roads and inland navigation, will be primary ob- 

 jects of legislative attention. The arts of husbandry will be 

 assisted, suppoi-ted, and rewarded : public men will be po- 

 pular and eminent, in proportion to the services they render 

 to the leading interests of their country. These, most as- 

 suredly, are those of agriculture, and the arts and sciences, 

 all of which are intimately, and indissolubly connected. Oui* 

 eyes will then be opened, to the sources of wealth and pros- 

 perity, which are properly our own ; easily attainable, ample, 

 and inexhaustible : and it will no longer be left to the dis- 

 cernment of the intelligent in rival states, to perceive, and 

 take advantage of our otilpable blindness, negligencCj and 

 mistakes. 



