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give an estimate of the income of the other industrial classes. The 

 income of all the manufactures in the Union for the same year, is 

 estimated at five hundred millions of dollars. The profits of the 

 fisheries seventeen millions. The profits of trade and commerce at 

 twenty-three milions ; and of professions, rents, banks and money in- 

 stitutions, one hundred and forty five millions, — making a total of 

 seven hundred and eighty-five millions of dollars. By these esti- 

 mates the amount of the industry of the country for a single year 

 is one thousand nine hundred and eighty nine millions of dollars. 

 Of this immense sum nearly two-thirds is the produce of agriculture 



Here is a lesson for those who have regarded agriculture as of 

 minor importance, and considered other pursuits of more conse- 

 quence , — and also to residents of our great commercial cities, 

 who, being accustomed to the noise and activity of those crowded 

 marts, have looked upon commerce as the great leading interest of 

 the Union. These estimates will correct such views and show that 

 although the interest in commerce is great, yet contrasted with that 

 of agriculture it is comparatively insignificant. The same amount 

 of income from trade and commerce as that of 1847, would not in 

 fifty years equal the estimates of the income of agriculture for that 

 year. 



These extracts and comparisons are not made for the purpose of 

 undervaluing any of the great industrial pursuits of the country ; 

 far otherwise — for all the different professions are reciprocally bene- 

 ficial and go to swell the aggregate of national prosperity ; but for 

 the purpose of rescuing the profession of agriculture from the un- 

 just estimate it has held in the minds of some, and of presenting 

 the subject in its true light. 



It is agriculture which enables us to receive and supply the 

 wants of those thousand of oppressed and destitute immigrants who 

 are annually seeking an asylum on our shores, from foreign op. 

 prcssion. 



It was a successful agriculture which enabled us so recently to 

 send relief to the famished inhabitants of a transatlantic region, — not 

 only to supply them commercially, but to extend the hand of a na- 

 tion's charity. 



What scene more touching than that, when the destitute inhabi- 

 tants of that distant land, hourly sinking to the grave for lack of 

 bread, saw in the distant horizon, through the mist of Death which 



