NEW ENGLAND FAllMEH. 



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in will have a collection directly, which, with- 

 tflii.v other magic than that ofa little patience, 

 II make vou an estate. 



•'However, it is more to my purpose to sng- 

 st, that nearlifl^encp, in the deparlmcnt of a 

 use-«ifc, will either make, or keej), her hiis- 

 id poor. No providence nor exertions ot a 

 ;n can sustain his family and improve their 

 idition, asjainst this silent and ceaseless coro- 

 n at the heart. It is the perpotn.il dropping;, 

 lit will wear the marble and exhaust a sea. 

 an, therelore, has a slatternly wife, it is 

 over with him. Tiie weird sisters may 

 id up his destiny as soon as they please. 

 Entering upon lite, a young man, with some- 

 j before hand, builds a large house. It is 

 n to be furnished. By this time, all he is 

 rth and his wife too and perhaps something 

 re, is invested in it. Fences and out-buildings 

 t correspond. Repairs must he made as oc- 

 on may require. Taxes must be paid. Fur- 

 re replenished as fashion varies. And, with 

 1 a tine establishment, there would he no 

 sting the temptation to shew it frequently 

 )ne"3 friends. Now I atfirm, that at the age 

 t"ty, if instead of building, he had hired, or 

 ted his accommodations strictly to his 

 ts, the capital he would have saved and 

 protit upon that capital, would have amount- 

 to a handsome estate. But suppose he 

 been able to maintain and educate his fam- 

 AVhen he makes his will, he gives his 

 eslead to his favorite son, and, to make his 

 Ireii equal, charges him with the payment 

 ;gacies to the others. Thus the son be- 

 lite, with an accumulation of debt upon 

 and, in the issue, sinks under it. Go 

 re you will, the eye meets with a succes- 

 of large houses, in every stage of dilapi- 

 in from broken windows, to tailing sheds, 

 prostrate walls. And, what is singularly 

 acteristic, we build for the summer ; so 

 in order to keep cool, one third of the 

 we have full employment, the other two 

 , to keep warm. A ditferent practice 

 d have put a new face upon New England. 

 jvho \vould live in a little hutch of a place! 

 eneral objection, and away goes all a 

 s philosophy on the subject. 

 The other particular, upon which I promis- 

 remark, although too important to be pas- 

 n silence, yet, as it has been the subject of 

 nent by my predecessors, 1 shall be excus- 

 i only notice ; for, if the certain conse- 

 ce of ruin to health, to character, to for- 

 to family, and, if you choose to look be- 

 , the career of ruin onward; if to a man, 

 admits the truth of these realities, and teels 

 too, and with a sensibility that maddens to 

 al torture, and deepens to anticipated hell, 

 living images appeal in vain, what think 

 .vnrds can do ! Oh, there is not in nature, 

 )ject more to be commiserated, than an in- 

 erate man, thvis bound down and chained 

 3 destiny by this tyrant habit. He is in the 

 itjon of Laocoon, in the folds of two enor- 

 erpents ; and what heightens the horror 

 e conception and tinishes the analogy, the 

 complicated wreaths of the strong and pol- 

 ls and resistless monsters that wring the 

 r to death — embrace his children also. Is 

 : an object worthy of this society, of the 

 'ined effort of this society, to see if some- 

 cannot be done to stay the progress of 



this appalling evil? If you cannot extinguish 

 the (Ire, may you not countermine and counter- 

 act it. so that when the materials upon which 

 it feeds are consumed, it shall go out? But at 

 present, it is bursting every harrier and kind- 

 ling along the whole line of life." 



" You patronize household manufactures and 

 encourage them by your rewards. You do right. 

 But u|ion what principle is it, that the labor of 

 a girl, that turns a single spindle, can be pro- 

 ductive, and the labor of another, that turns one 

 iHiiidrcd, the reverse ? There is the expense 

 of the machinery ! True, and there is the sav- 

 ing of the wages and board of ninety-nine per- 

 sons. And not only so; while the labor of one 

 hundred persons is thus despatched by one, the 

 ninety-nine are all at liberty, and each of them 

 can do as much work, in the same way, as the 

 individual spinster. If the one deserves pa- 

 tronage, therefore, I leave it for you to de- 

 termine, ivhether the other is not entitled to pro- 

 tection ? But the master of a family, if he can- 

 not sell, can consume ; the manufacturer, how- 

 evei-, must sell, or his business must cease. 

 -And, therefore, a wise government will enable 

 him to do it, — not for his own sake merely, but 

 for the good of the great fraternity ; or, if you 

 please, of the family. 



" The balance of trade, as it respects England, 

 is against us; but the conclusion, that therefore 

 it is a losing trade, is denied. Without stopping 

 to trace the arguments in their windings, or con- 

 tending that the custom-house returns indicate 

 the exact truth on this subject, or controverting 

 the position, that it does not follow, of course, 

 that it is a losing trade ; yet it is quite apparent 

 that an individual may purchase and consume 

 more than he can pay for. A nation may do 

 the same. And an individual does it, when the 

 amount of his purchases and consumption, for a 

 given time, exceeds the spare product of his 

 industry and capital, supposed to constitute his 

 means, for the same time. A nation does it, 

 under like circumstances. When an individual 

 mortgages his estate, or parts with vested and 

 productive property, to the trader, his condition 

 is obvious. What means then, permit me to in- 

 quire, the almost unlimited transmission of stock, 

 both bank and national, to England? When 

 the day of reckoning and payment comes, let the 

 guardians ot the public credit look to it, that its 

 pillars do not tremble. 



"It is not two hundred years since Great 

 Britain imported her broadcloths from Belgium, 

 and not one hundred since she derived her cot 

 ton goods from Germany. Had she acted upon 

 the principles which we oppose, she would not 

 have sold a yard of either, even in her own 

 market, to this time, while now she supplies 

 half the world with both. But, instead of leav- 

 ing manufactures to originate and protect them 

 selves, she originated them by prohibition and 

 protecting duties. In the time of Elizabeth,we find 

 the great Bacon, vehement, in protesting against 

 the importation of foreign products, on account of 

 the national dependence and poverty which it in- 

 volved. To this day, the ports of Great Bri 

 tian are closed against the introduction of a single 

 manufactured article, which British industry and 

 British capital can make. No sooner did our 

 straw-braid find its way into London, than a 

 petition went to Parliament for an act of exclu- 

 sion. 



" Suppose the tables reversed and that we 

 could undersell Great Britain, in her own mar- 

 ket. Would she permit it ? She would sacri- 

 llce her manufacturing capital, it will be said 

 I say more. She would not only sacrifice that. 

 but her agricultural capital with if. 



' Increase of population and consequent de- 

 mand for produce, originally gave, and still give, 

 value to land. How injurious, therefore, to 

 New England has been the emigration to the 

 westward ! The magic that has reared the 

 towns and villages in that part of the country, 

 "las been your citizens and your capital, under 

 the double influence of increased exertion and 

 increased economy, the prevalent virtues of a 

 new settlement. 1 know that politically, some 

 advantages may accrue from a New England 

 population there, and I by no means wish ill 

 to those of our friends who are interested in 

 the lands there, but, to the same extent as em- 

 igration prevails, the value of pro|)erty is re- 

 duced here, to say nothing of the loss of capi- 

 tal and of men — the most valuable of all capital 

 It is this, among other causes, that has left 

 farms upon the hills without tenants, without 

 purchaser-s, and without price. Bleeding at 

 every vein, for a succcs.sion of years will re- 

 duce any subject to depletion. The way to 

 restore health and soundness, in such a case, 

 is to cut the ligatures and staunch the blood. 



"The bounties of Providence are distributed 

 with more impartiality than we imagine. Wher- 

 ever a privilege is given, or hardship impos- 

 ed, an equivalent is exacted, or conferred. 

 Our hills are rough ; hut (he business of grazing 

 affords leisure to farmers, for the very purpose 

 of enabling them to subdue the rebellious char- 

 acter ofthe soil. Our river lands are produc- 

 tive ; but the price of them is comparatively 

 high, and without yielding to the proprietor a 

 better return than the hills for the interest of 

 his money, they exact of him more labor. With 

 industry and economy, the necessity of which 

 is a blessing, we can all live, and in the Ar- 

 cadia of the western world, they are not ex- 

 empt from the common lot. At certain points 

 of remove, deformities disappear in the indis- 

 tinctness, or blend in (he light, ofthe landscape. 

 For more reasons than I have time to assign. 

 New England is the place in which to live and 

 to die." {To bt continued.) 



Vaccination. — The following incident, says 

 the Norfolk Herald, while it serves to shew the 

 brutal prejudice which still prevails against 

 vaccinadon, is ano(her among millions of 

 proofs already adduced, of i(s efficacy as a rem- 

 edy against the Small Pox. The incident 

 occurred in France, and is recorded in the Gaz- 

 e.ttt de Sante, (Gazette of Health) of Paris. A 

 woman in a village near Cherbourg, mother of 

 4 children, had the good sense and courage to 

 hav« her young family vaccinated. After 

 some time the Small Pox made its appearance 

 in the village. All the children, excepting 

 the four vaccinated, were infected, and many 

 died. The women who had mocked at the 

 wise precaution of the happy mother, mortified 

 at her security and comfort, enticed the chil- 

 dren to their houses, and smeared their faces 

 with variolous matter. Their malignity was 

 only further embittered by seeing that all their 

 efforts to communicate the disease to the vac- 

 cinated children were uDSuccessful. 



