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operate in the same manner, till our lands are much 
more completely settled and cultivated, than they are 
at present. But a man can now procure his living out 
of the soil, with much more ease, health, and comfort 
to himself, than he can at the loom or in the fhop. 
A few persons, only, are employed to work up the 
roughest materials of the country, in a coarse and 
hasty manner, for the wear of the farmer and his 
servants at their daily labour ; or, when new, per- 
haps, for their holiday clothes. Spinning is always 
done in the farmer’s house at those seasons, when, if 
they did not spin, they would be unemployed. And 
in the southern states, it is not uncommon for each 
family to have its own loom also. It often happens 
that tradesmen in the country, of every kind, make 
their trade a businefs by the bye, and tillage their 
principal occupation ; so much more secure and profi- 
table an income is derived from the land which is ob- 
tained with ease, and held without dependence. If 
a manufacturer were to come to America, with ar 
hundred workmen in his branch, they would pre- 
bably all desert him before the end of two years. 
The difference of ideas, between a young country of 
hufbandmen, and an old one of manufacturers, 1s almost 
inconceivable. And, therefore, men coming from 
Britain, fall of their own ideas and habits, must 
frequently be most egregiously disappointed. There 
are few, even in this country, where they have the 
effects before their view, who have reflection enough 
to investigate the causes of that obvious difference 
which exists between America and Europe. It is 
frequently supposed to arise, not from the nature 
