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manufactures in the colonies common nuisances, and directed 

 the Governors, on information of two witnesses under oath, to 

 cause the same to be abated within thirty days, or forfeit the 

 sum of X500. 



Thus early the people of New England, against the remon- 

 strances and even commands of the parent country, established 

 and carried on manufacturing. The business was continued 

 and increased after the separation, and has been carried on 

 under varying circumstances to the successful results of the 

 present time. And now. New England is known at home and 

 abroad as tlie manufacturing section, as fully and universally 

 as the West is known as the grain-growing, and* the South as 

 the cotton-growing sections. 



The facts and results of this long experience, as well as the 

 certain operations of natural causes, point to New England as 

 the manufacturing centre of the country in the future as in 

 the past. 



The people of other sections may, to a limited extent, carry 

 on successfully some of the coarser manufactures, in which but 

 little skilled labor is employed, and may in exceptional times, 

 as within the last few years, attempt with temporary success to 

 establish other manufactures, but when the aflairs of the 

 country are brought back to their normal condition, it will be 

 found that such experiments will result in failure. 



The people of New England, with the advantages of the 

 system of reciprocity throughout the country as in the past, 

 will always be able to control the markets of the country in 

 manufactured articles against any domestic competition, and 

 largely, in time, against any competition from abroad ; and with 

 the future growth of the different sections, no man can 

 calculate the proportions to which our manufacturing industries 

 will expand, or the amount of prosperity which their expansion 

 will bring not only to the agricultural, but to every other 

 industry of our section. 



It is impossible for the people of the United States to over- 

 estimate the value of the system of government inaugurated by 

 their fathers. Under it vast communities, which under other 

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