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out proper facilities for the exchange of our commodities, 

 our favourite pursuits would languish and decay. Neither 

 let it be supposed, that in our encomiums upon Husband- 

 ry, we intend to derogate any thing from the importance 

 of Manufacturing. Most of the handicraft trades are es- 

 sentially connected with the cultivation of the earth; and 

 "without these facilities our labours would be almost in 

 vain. When therefore we speak o( Agriculture, we wish 

 to be understood as including all those branches of domes- 

 tic manufacture by which the cultivation of the earth is 

 promoted. Without the use of iron, for instance, the 

 fields of Massachusetts would yield but a meagre harvest. 

 Nor would we be limited to this riew of the subject. No 

 real friend to New-England, no wise man, that has watch- 

 ed her progress, that has compared her situation with ' 

 that of the wealthiest countries of Europe, but must admit 

 that the time is approaching when she must be an exten- 

 sive manufacturing district. Circumstances beyond our 

 control, have rendered it necessary that some of the 

 streams of our surplus capital should be turned into this 

 channel. By a judicious management, this wealth will 

 not be lost to us : it will become absorbed in the soil — it 

 will be prevented from flowing to too great a distance — 

 and thus it may diffuse a more general fertility. In the 

 present languishing state of commerce, this probably is 

 the only mode by which we can retain our surplus popu* 

 lation and our resources among ourselves. Time and 

 circumstances will probably accomplish all that the most 

 sanguine "friend to domestic industry" can desire. The 

 controversy that has so long agitated the com.munity upon 

 this subject, is merely upon the degree of encouragement 

 that is proper to be given to this branch of employment. 



To adjust the jarring interests of Commerce and Manu- 

 factures, seems to hdive been, of late, a great part of the 

 business of the Grand Council of our nation. That they 

 should be encouraged and protected, the €nhghtened 

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