lO Oi-ation delivered before the Agricultural Society. 



horfes, kept either to indulge the pride or gratify the prejudice 

 of their owner. It is to a conviftion of the impohcy and 

 expenfivenefs of this kind of fervice, rather than to any moral or 

 religious confiderations on the fubjeO;, that the decline of 

 flavery is principally to be attributed. 



But I would not wifli to be underftood that the whole of 

 our labour fliould be applied to agricultural purfuits, as if 

 thofe were, as forae argue, the only induftry that is produftive ; 

 for I think it may be clearly proved, that the capital and labour 

 of this country, will be moft advantageoufly employed, if a part 

 of it is expended in manufaftures; the beft policy in this refpeft, 

 being to carry on agriculture without neglefting manufaftures, 

 and at the fame time fo to manage manufa6lures, as that 

 agriculture may be conduced with a due degree of fpirit. 

 That accumulation of monied capital which is fo rapidly making 

 in the United States, beyond the amount neceffary to carry on 

 the agricultural and commercial bufinefs thereof, is a moft 

 favorable prelude to the eftablifhment of domeftic manufac- 

 tures, to which the prefent fpirit of fpeculation and enterprize 

 of our citizens, feems peculiarly favorable. 



But how are fields to be artificially fertilized? By manure. 

 This is the great hinge upon which the whole fyftem of agricul- 

 ture turns. In procuring this needful fubftance, we are firft to 

 imitate nature in coilccling all the vegetable matter we can 

 find, fuffering nothing to be loft. As, however, if a field, 

 yielding grafs for brutes or grain for man is principally exhauitcd 



