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and as the completion ye: co and railroads between the loamy banks of 
the western rivers and the sandy shores of the Atlantic Ocean, will still 
= reduce the price a we present products of the planter of the south, 
of the farmer of the north, their mst ateainal legitimate remedy wi 
te Nae in the malay ene at such n w staples as may be most profitably © 
cultivated. in each natural variety oft her epee climates and exhaust- 
ed soils, and hitherto ee lands. The useless species of the prickly 
pear, whic rrun our barren sands, may be profitably supplanted by their 
usefal brethren of the aopiess expecially by the prickless nopal, pete: 
neal cactus, which nourishes the precious insect, whose growth and p 
gation affords a pleasant and profitable occupation to the feeble in a 
Sex, and age ; and yields, inits scarlet fruit, an agreeable food for man ; 
m its fleshy masses, a fattening fodder for animals ; and in the full-grown 
jan 
Foreign commerce no longer affords profitable occupation to the ships and 
mariners, nor factory facturers to the machinery and operatives of the 
north. Of railroads and canals to the west and southwest, more will be 
comple tad than wil find remunerating foe to and from the Atlantic 
the great stream of emigration, rj however the new States, as masses, 
- may be benefitted by the influx of m money and inhabitants, their actual 
farmers and planters, as classes, must be injured by over-production o 
heir common staples ; and the ats datos of the same staples in the old 
States will be pe ruined. 'T’o avoid the evils of ere of the 
patio 
constitute a natural preventative of the motives of State nullification; to fur- 
aan ae Palys to the taps tay capitals and extra laborers of the 
sa : 
wealth to the youngest, oldest, and feebles inhabitants, or hitherto most 
needy population. Refer ing especially to such productive pereuniel gad 
as profitably propagate tt the worst sates soils, and which be- 
come much more profitable when aided by.a very little care, capital oxi, 
or labor of man, he reiterates that these simple creations of Divine Provi- 
dence afford much more effective means to promote the wealth, intelli- 
* The subseriber’s ten years’ absence from the United § es, and his consequent 
rance of the “ and arguments for and agains vane, haltiaeaten and n tional a fener 
a oe 0 express any decided | opinion of the merits or demerits of either. 22d 
