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ing at their head that excxzlieat man, the second Magis- 

 trate of the nation, for the express purpose of encourag- 

 ing manufactures, is at once the evidence of reformation, 

 and the pledge that this great cause shall be sustained. 

 ^Massachusetts, not less distinguished for cnterprize and 

 public spirit, has caught excitement from the example, 

 formed an Association with kindred views, and organized 

 with a weight of talents, wealth and respectability, that 

 ensures confidence, perseverance and success in the ma- 

 turity of time. Pennsylvania, Delaware, Connecticut 

 and New-Hampshire, deeply interested in the success of 

 these useful and splendid objects, have imbiljed the spirit 

 of improvement, and are co-operating vigorously in all 

 the measures requisite to ensure the permanent indepen- 

 dence of the nation. The cKcitement and the enterprize 

 arc not insulated ; but extending to other States and to 

 other sources of improvement. The great and intelligent 

 State of Virginia is shaking off its sloth and the torpor of 

 inaction, and commencing various projects for advance- 

 ment in its agricultural resources. North- Carolina, though 

 lieretofore retarded in its career of improvement, has com- 

 menced, with a noble zer,l and energy, the great and use* 

 ful measure of diffusing among itj citizens the means of 

 a vast and rapid amelioration of all its native resources. 

 Societies have been instituted in these States to succeed 

 these most useful purposes : and, gentlemen, it is not a- 

 mong the least of your honors and felicities, that yonr So- 

 ciety has every where been adopted as a model, and ha 

 aid sought and readily afforded. 



The enlightened and benevolent men of our country 

 have considered these subordinate ariangcments as imper- 

 fect, and the advantages liable to be impaired lor the \\ ant 

 of a wise superintending head to conceive and todifuise 

 its spirit and intelligence through the nation. Authorised 

 by the general concurrence of opinion, this Society mudti 



