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DR. SPOFFORD S ADDRESS. 



wanderer o'er sea and land, shall in vision or reality return 

 to wander ovec the happy haunts of his childhood, and lay his 

 ashes on liis native soil. 



True these opinions would he of more weight if they came 

 from ahroad, or from one who had travelled extensively ; but 

 these estimates of other parts of our country are founded on the 

 observations of many competent witnesses ; and as it is an honor 

 to a child to highly esieem his father's house, so I consider it 

 an honor, a duty, and a privilege, to do justice to my native soil* 



Let us now attend to some of the means essential for the 

 Improvement and enjoyment of these advantages. 



And one of the first requisites for the improvement of our ad- 

 vantages is — untiring industry. 



It is often hterally true that the hand of" the diligent maketh 

 rich;" but where from any cause it fails to enable a person to 

 gather heaps of shining dust, it always in this land enables the 

 diligent to possess constantly and plentifully the necessaries and 

 comforts of life, which to every reasonable mind is true riches. 



See England by her active industry extending the arm of her 

 power over every sea, and drawing her supplies from the remo- 

 test corners of the earth. 



Water and steam and muscular force, is in perpetual action. 

 The very elements are forced to labor, and the island is one 

 vast workshop. Her ships and seamen brave the tempests of 

 every sea, and bring back the riches of every clime. The mer- 

 chandise of both the Indies congregates in her warehouses, and 

 her merchants are hterally princes, and a hundred millions of 

 the indolent Asiatics own their authority and lay their unwilling 

 tribute at their feet.* 



The advantages of industry on a large scale, are also strikingly 

 illustrated by the comfort and prosperity of New England com- 

 pared with our southern States. 



• Yet notwiihstanding the political power and grasping policy of England, the nation is fo 

 convinced of the iniquity, impolicy and uselessness of personal SLA.rERT,that it is not permitted 

 on her soil, and is about (at a groat expense) to be extirpated from her colonies ! an example 

 worthy to be followed by our nation, when boasting of ita Libbrtt and proclaimioc that " all 

 Mtn at« born free and equal." 



