exterminating wars. An ambitious president may 

 nullify the legislative and judicial departments of 

 the government, by refusing to execute the laws, 

 and thus pave his way to despotic authority. But 

 let us hope for better things. We have heretofore 

 had our political agitations and strifes. More than 

 once has the horizon been overcast with dark por- 

 tentous clouds. More than once has the thunder of 

 disunion been heard in the distance menacing the 

 dissolution of our civil compact. But like the 

 whirlwind and the tempest, the hail and the light- 

 ning of the physical world, they have passed off, 

 leaving a purer atmosphere and serener sky. 



In this march to national greatness, where will 

 New-England, this little speck on the map of our 

 country, be found ? Will she be found as usual, in 

 the van, pioneering the way of improvements, or 

 will she abandon her love of enterprise, and retro- 

 grade to the rear? Her determination is already 

 announced, and she has assumed an advanced posi- 

 tion in the line of march, by encouraging manufac- 

 tures and the mechanic arts. She is destined to 

 sustain the same relation to manufactures, that she 

 has, hitherto, sustained to commerce, and while her 

 canvass shall continue to whiten every sea, her 

 ships shall be freighted with the produce of her 

 looms and workshops. 



The local advantages of New-England seem to 

 designate her as the favorite site of manufacturing 

 establishments. Her proximity to the Atlantic, 

 and her immediate connexion with the great inter- 

 nal channels of communication ; her immense water 

 powers, and inexhaustible supplies of timber and 



