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diffuse the advantages of one section to the wants of a- 

 ROther section of the country. The south and west fur- 

 nish immense quantities of raw materials and provisions, 

 the efficient resources of manufactures, and of extensive 

 domestic traffic — the north and east possess sailors, ships, 

 artizansand establishments, which enable them to become 

 the manufacturers, carriers and distributors of these vast 

 products. With such ample means — with such unequal- 

 led advantages, shall we doubt and linger on the brink of 

 ruin ? Shall our countrymen longer remain insensible to 

 their own welfare ? Will you, gentlemen, continue the 

 humble tenants of your soil, to supply distant nations with 

 the materials for advancing their own wealth and strength, 

 by returning on you your own products enhanced an hun- 

 dred fold by their industry ? Will you toil on in the de- 

 graded vassalage, slaves to habit, and dupes to the dis- 

 honorable imposition, that manufactures do not become 

 your condition ? The supposition is offensive to your 

 feelings, and hostile to true American policy. It tends to 

 degrade the lofty character of the nation — to subject the 

 country to become a great theatre for foreign speculations. 

 The genius of America spurns such unvvortlw humility. 

 Gentlemen, the people should understand their real 

 and permanent interests, and place tliem on n basis as firm 

 as their own independence, and cherish them with an ar- 

 dor only surpassed by their attachment to their precious 

 liberties. To the people, then, we address these sen- 

 timents ! To the people we comrwit their protection. 



G£NTi.EME>r — In unison with these impressions, im- 

 portant events have elicited several decided expressions of 

 the public sense. By these our hopes are animated, and 

 our confidence increased. The recent establishment of a 

 Society in the enterprising State of New- York, composed 

 of numerous members from every employment, distin- 

 guished for science, intelligence, wealth and spirit, hav- 



