214 LAND AND LABOR. 



guarantee to every industry the full benefit to be de- 

 rived from our own developments, would at once 

 place us upon the highway to prosperity, and shower 

 the blessings of universal industry on all alike. 



These are the invulnerable grounds that should be 

 taken by all who have a sincere desire for the good 

 of society in general, or of any of its members. In 

 them there is not necessarily one particle of sentiment 

 or philanthropy. Our distresses are not the work of 

 sentiment, but of material conditions. So, also, the 

 measures here suggested, may be looked upon as mat- 

 ters of the purest material interest, under the guid- 

 ance of the simplest elements of common sense ; but 

 still they are in full harmony with every principle of 

 humanity and social advancement. 



