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should not like to assert that there is not a broad- 

 cloth manufactory in New England, though I do not 

 know of any machinery, now running, of that kind of 

 goods." 



A manufacturer of standing in our State, who 

 made broadcloths prior to 1846, writes me (January 

 23, 1862), that there are no broadcloths made in the 

 United States, so far as he knows, except such as are 

 made for the army and navy ; and a few cotton 

 warp cloths, called " Union." 



I have presented the preceding statistics, because 

 they embrace facts which are inseparably and impor- 

 tantly connected with the progress of sheep and wool 

 husbandry in the United States ; and without them 

 much of the history I am sketching would be mean- 

 ingless a mere record of apparently casual events. I 

 had contemplated accompanying them with similar 

 statistics of the woolen production, trade, and legisla- 

 tion of other nations ; but I found that while those of 

 them which could be obtained in this country would 

 swell this paper to a volume, they still would lack a 

 satisfactory degree of completeness without sending 

 to Europe for more, for which there would be no 

 time. 



Having presented a class of facts, the mutual rela- 

 tions and bearings of which have been made the 

 topics of much partisan discussion which, in some 

 cases, indeed, have constituted what are termed u is- 

 sues" between parties I feel constrained to omit my 

 own deductions and conclusions in respect to them, 

 leaving every person to form his own opinions on the 

 subject. 



