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as I ever remember to have found in the same compass, in 

 relation to the prosperity of the American farmer. It is as 

 applicable now as wlien it was written ; and it ought to be 

 printed in good legible type, and hung up in a frame in 

 every farmer's house in the Union : — 



" The Colonies," says he, " that produce provisions, grow 

 very fast. But, of the countries that take off those provi- 

 sions, some do not increase at all, as the European nations ; 

 and others, as the West India Colonies, not in the same 

 proportion. So that, though the demand at present may 

 be sufficient, it cannot long continue so. Every manufac- 

 turer encouraged in our country makes part of a market 

 for provisions within ourselves, and saves so much money 

 to the country as must otherwise be exported to pay for the 

 manufactures he supplies. Here in England," he adds, " it 

 is well known and understood, that, wherever a manufac- 

 ture is established which employs a number of hands, it 

 raises the value of lands in the neighboring country all 

 around it, partly by the greater demand near at hand 

 for the produce of the land, and partly from the plenty of 

 money drawn by the manufacturers to theu- part of the 

 country. It seems, therefore, the interest of all our farmers 

 and owners of lands to encourage our young manufac- 

 tures in preference to foreign ones, imported among us from 

 distant countries." 



In these golden words of Franklin, which could find no 

 better illustration the world over than here, in presence of 

 those to whose lands and to whose crops yonder mills and 

 furnaces and machine-shops have given a value so far 

 beyond any which they could otherwise have commanded, 

 — if these golden words of Franklin, I say, could be im- 

 pressed upon the heart and mind of every farmer in our 

 land, there would be less complaint that our Government 

 had found time to do every thing for manufactures and the 

 mechanic arts, and had done nothing for agriculture ; and it 



