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to, and, generally, do perform efficiently the duties 

 of both departments, for themselves although no 

 country has yet reached that highest state of 

 advancement, of the Government of which it may 

 said, that to aid the people in the discharge of the 

 first office is not an expedient function. 



The Government of India has always, moreover, 

 recognized these principles, I say, recognized, 

 because, as must indeed be obvious, a Government, 

 the greater portion of whose surplus means has 

 been absorbed by expensive wars, and whose time 

 and attention have in infancy been devoted to 

 measures of self-preservation, in youth to foreign 

 conquests, and in manhood if it may yet 

 be said to have attained that period of its 

 existence to the work of consolidating its Empire, 

 has had little opportunity of doing more. Hence 

 it is that the sources of immense wealth, exist- 

 ing dormantly in this great peninsula, are yet 

 so partially developed. We have good ground for 

 supposing that Tabacco, Silk, Flax, Wool, and many 

 other products which are in such demand in Europe 

 and America as to be sources of immense wealth to 

 the countries from whence the supplies are drawn, 

 might be produced here, of as good quality, 

 and at as cheap a price, if not cheaper, than in 

 any country in the whole world; and amongst 

 the number we may, with much reason, place 

 Cotton. 



