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cultural products. They will extend and increase the num-* 

 ber of our yards, for building ships. They will demand more 

 iron, more founderies, for making machinery for steamers, 

 and more men to labor in the?e factories. These men will 

 need clothes to cover them, and food to support them and their 

 families. 



The trade, navigation and fisheries of the Upper lakes, 

 ought, at no distant day, to support one million of our citizens 

 living on the shore, and near it, of lake Erie. Another mil-' 

 lion might easily be supported by the trade, navigation and 

 manufactures connected with the western rivers. Ten millions 

 more could easily find a support, and full and profitable em- 

 ployment, in the interior of this state, on their farms, in their 

 shops, offices, stores and factories of all sorts. The valley of 

 the Mississippi, the largest one on the globe, contains ample 

 space in addition to the Upper lakes, for us, in which, to move 

 about and act. In this large theatre, we should be the actors. 

 On these boards the people of the East may be as they please, 

 either the actors or the audience. 



Laying aside the figure, their productions will be very dif- 

 ferent from ours, and will not compete with us, in any rrtarket. 

 Ours, consisting of food for the planter and his laborer's, of 

 hay and horses to eat it, of cotton bagging, and gins to clean 

 his cotton, of boilers and steam engines, with which to manu- 

 facture his sugar^ will not compete with Maine, with her ice 

 and tripes packed in it, of fishes, either fresh or salted, of 

 lumber, such as boards spars and staves. 



Massachusetts and Rhode Island may cafry their cloths 

 and their fishes, and Connecticut her wooden clocks, but Ohia 

 will not be in their way. 



