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become again tenanted by that least expensive, and 

 most profitable species of stock. 



" Manufacturing establishments afford occasional 

 and extra employment to industrious individuals 

 and families, who are willing to devote the leisure 

 resulting from the intermissions of their ordinary 

 pursuits, to collateral labors, as a resource for mul- 

 tiplying their acquisitions or enjoyments. The 

 husbandman himself experiences a new source of 

 profit and support from the increased industry of 

 his wife and daughters, invited and stimulated by 

 the demands of the neighboring manufactories." 



The genial influence of their successful introduc- 

 tion would be felt by all landholders and cultivators 

 in the material diminution of taxes, and the rapid 

 rise in value of real estate. The worth of lands is 

 proportioned to their capacity of production, and 

 their proximity to market. If, by encouraging the 

 growth and multiplication of these establishments, 

 we create a market at home, in our own neighbor- 

 hood, perhaps, before our own doors, who does not 

 see, that we materially increase the value of our 

 lands, and render their cultivation more profitable ? 

 The establishment of a home market calls into ac- 

 tion all the energies of the husbandman, and adds 

 new zest to agricultural pursuits. 



In a moral, and political view, the general intro- 

 duction of manufacturing establishments, assumes 

 yet higher importance. The peculiar moral excel- 

 lency of large manufactories, as conducted in New- 

 England, is their furnishing active employment to 

 a class of persons, who without them, have not the 

 means of regular occupation. Females and chil- 



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