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inerce, for the exercise of the industry and skill of the 

 vastly and rapidly increasing children of America ; and 

 to afford to all countries, through their agency, genuine 

 articles, and at comparative low prices articles that 

 have become necessaries of life, and that will tend to 

 promote not only the prosperity and comfort of all, but 

 promote temperance and sobrjety. And, in appealing to 

 every class of American citizens, I will at once pass on 

 to the following, to show the necessity of the introduction 

 of other staples of Agriculture and Commerce than those 

 already existing. 



In a country situated as America is, if her people sit 

 down in contentment with the events of yesterday, and 

 with the state of things in times gone by, and will not 

 look forward to the wants of to-morrow, or the future, of 

 themselves and their posterity, adieu to American great- 

 ness, adieu to the advancement of civilization within her 

 shores. " Plant a tree, dig a well," says the Shaster 

 (a Bible) of the Hindoos, a for your children's use ; these 

 are among the great works of charity." And in like 

 Banner are we bound to look beyond the span of our 

 existence, and bequeath to our successors increasing 

 means of happiness, in keeping with the wants of an 

 unparalleled increasing population. Our predecessors 

 provided for us ; so, in like manner, it is our duty to do 

 all we can for the rising generation. Or are we to die 

 and leave no other monument to witness our virtues but 

 that cold and too often lying marble slab erected over our 

 miserable clay ? 



The great staples of exports, cotton and rice, &c., are 

 at a dead stand in respect to the quantity that may be 

 produced, and if not receding, will recede from the pre- 



