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in which the efforts of individuals will be aided and cherish- 

 ed by legislative patronage, and pecuniary support. Our 

 state will then hold its proper rank among our neighbours ; 

 and our natural and local advantages, remain no longer in- 

 active. Roads and inland navigation, w^ill be primary ob- 

 jects of legislative attention. The arts oi husbandry will be 

 assisted, supported, and rew^arded : public men will be po- 

 pular and eminent, in proportion to the services they render 

 to the leading interests of their country. These, most as- 

 suredly, are those of agriculture, and the arts and sciences., 

 all of which are intimately, and indissolubly connected. Oui' 

 eyes will then be opened, to the sources of wealth and pros- 

 perity, wdiich are properly our own ; easily attainable, ample^ 

 and inexhaustible : and it will no longer be leit to the dis- 

 cernment of the intelligent in rival states, to perceive, and 

 take advantage of our culpable blindness, negligence, and 

 mistakes. 



