find profitable employment in our own workshops, 

 and manufactories, rather than in the western wilds. 

 New-England will soon be shorn of her remaining 

 political importance, unless her population can be 

 more rapidly increased, so as to keep pace with the 

 clustering thousands of the western states. Her 

 voice may, indeed, be still heard and respected, the 

 eloquence of her statesmen will be admired, and 

 their arguments prove unanswerable, yet, notwith- 

 standing, her interests will be overlooked, and her 

 just demands, neglected. It is a mortifying truth, 

 but, therefore, none the less worthy to be told, that 

 the best, and often, the only successful argument in 

 our national councils, is numbers, mere physical 

 force. Let us, then, by giving all proper encourage- 

 ment to the establishment of manufactories among 

 us, endeavor to acquire possession of this best, this 

 conclusive argument. 



Past experience has demonstrated the extreme 

 folly and madness of relying on foreign countries, 

 exclusively, for a supply of manufactures. Our late 

 war with Great Britain found us unprovided with 

 the necessary materials for equipping and clothing 

 our defenders. We were compelled to trust to the 

 spindles and looms of our enemies, for the very 

 blankets of our soldiers. The urgent necessity of 

 the case supplied itself by corresponding efforts. 

 Numerous small manufactories were put in opera- 

 tion, in various parts of our country, and during the 

 war, contributed materially to its successful progress, 

 and proved profitable investments of capital. On 

 the re-opening of our ports to foreign importations, 

 these young establishments could not, unaided by 



