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It would be little less injurious to us ; it would no more 

 endanger our liberties and independence for the foreigner 

 to make our laws, than our cloths ; either policy will in 

 a few years destroy our liberty, recoloniae the States, 

 and make us " hewers of wood and drawers of water'* 

 to foreign task-masters. 



Let the Government protect the manufacturers in sup- 

 plying our own citizens ; let us live on our own resources^ 

 and enjoy peace, independence and happiness ; let this 

 Society come forward, with renewed vigor, and emanci- 

 pate, not only the genius of Berkshire^ but the genius of 

 America. 



Let the agriculturalist explore the hidden treasure of 

 his farm ; perhaps the mountains of Berkshire contain 

 the riches of Potosi, and the vales of Berkshire the mines 

 of Golconda 1 



Fair Daughters of America ! 



Assert your rights ; assume your dignity. Let not the 

 swarthy daughters of Austria, or the copper- colored Rus- 

 sian, exceed you in patriotism \ Let your ornaments be 

 American, and the work of your own fingers ; then the 

 hearts of freemen will do you homage. Disdain the fash- 

 ions of St. James and St. Cloud, and you shall be rank- 

 ed with the Heroines of the Revolution, who expelled 

 the China beverage, rendered dear by habit, from tlie 

 party of pleasure. 



I detain you no longer ; but proceed to the pleasing du- 

 ty of proclaiming the successful competitors for premi- 

 ums on this joyful anniversary* 



