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dren, otherwise too often idle, are here provided 

 with pleasant and profitable engagement. While 

 by their industry, they are enabled to contribute 

 essentially towards their support, and education, 

 they are preserved entirely from the temptations of 

 idleness, and the allurements of vice. On this sub- 

 ject, we are happily not without experience. Visit 

 the flourishing manufacturing villages of Lowell, 

 Waltham, Ware, and Chickopee, and inquire into 

 their internal arrangement and police, and show 

 me, if you can, more orderly, and prosperous, and 

 happy communities. Children under a certain age 

 are required to be kept at school, while those above 

 that age, are employed, regular hours, in the per- 

 formance of allotted easy tasks, and both, contented 

 and happy, are acquiring temperate, industrious, 

 and useful habits. Habit, in the conduct of life, is 

 every thing. Children, early and systematically . 

 trained to the regular habits of application, prac- 

 tised in well conducted factories, will be very un- 

 likely to depart from them in after-life, and assume 

 the disorderly and vagabond habits of the votaries 

 of idleness and sloth. \ 



Politically considered, their extensive introduc- 

 tion is of the first consequence. They would rap- 

 idly increase our population, both by preventing 

 emigration to the new states, and by inducing immi- 

 gration to these establishments. Our own sons and ' 

 daughters would give over their dreams of the val- 

 ley of the Mississippi, and the verdant banks of 

 the Ouisconsin and St. Joseph's, when they found 

 offered them, at home, the means of easy, and repu- 

 table support. Yankee skill, and ingenuity, would 



