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"from the south will be prevented, and even its: ruined fields and barren 
wastes will become covered with-a dense population of small cultivators ; 
and that raral population may be tripled by the employment of new 
staples in the really domestic manufactures of their farms, families, and fe- 
males. Atallevents, the numerous small cultivators of the south would thus 
be enabled to furnish the cheapest possible raw materials for the numerous 
small manufacturets of the north, and would hence create, mutually, a profit- 
able and harmonious dependence on each other of the great pacific masses of 
population in both sections of the Union. With these views of the national 
importance of the enterprise of Doctor Perrine, your committee have deter- 
mined to report a bill, on such conditions.as will render it barely possible fon 
him to attract associates and capital to the aid of his future labors, with unity 
in design, harmony in co-operation, and perseverance in pursuit. nder 
the conditions imposed, he only hopes to get.co-operators among those pat- 
riotic persons, who will be influenced by the facts, arguments, and feelings 
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need his own mind.of the great prepeebty of ultimate success, 
Representatives reported a similar bill ; and your committee now refer to the 
accompanying report and other documents. Your committee need not dwell 
ture, manu and.commerce of the Union. The committee annex to ¢ 
this report several explanatory letters and other important documents, 
from 1 to 4. eek 
es “DOCUMENT No. 1. Bite 
Communications to the Committees on Agriculture of the Sonate and 
Representatives, Janwery and February, 1838. — 
.... Wasurneron, D. C., Janu ry 4, 
