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consumption at home, and in part by exportation to 

 foreign countries, but principally by the latter. Both 

 causes however, sprang from commerce; and both, 

 as^long as commerce exists, will continue to operate 

 in a greater or less degree. Indeed, if we could sup- 

 pose a nation cut off from all intercourse with other 

 nations, (that is, from all foreign commerce) that na- 

 tion, though abounding in all the necessaries of life^ 

 would be barbarous, selfish, illiteral and ignorant. 

 Neither let us give way to the idea, that either ag- 

 riculture, or commerce, are incompatible with domes- 

 tic manufactures. Unwise laws, may injure either 

 one or the other, by unjust preferences ; but under 

 proper regulations, they will aid, and invigorate 

 each other. This is not the place for entering into a 

 disquisition of the degree of encouragement which 

 should be afforded by law, to manufactures. That 

 important subject is before the national legislature, 

 where it will, no doubt, receive an impartial and ma- 

 ture consideration. But thus much may be said, 

 with certainty; that it is the duty as well as the in- 

 terest, of all of us, to use our owrij in preference to 

 foreign manufactures, where they can be furnished 

 on reasonable terms. It cannot be denied, that ma- 

 nufactures afford a sure market, for the productions 

 of the neighbouring country; and as they are multi- 



