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amount of uwrk performed for a given sum and not the 

 price of a days labor, that we have to consider, and in this 

 view of the subject there are few undertakings in which 1 

 shouldfear competition more particularly where intelligence 

 and ingenuity, can come in aid of the task. Again/weZ 

 which enters largely into the expenses of the manufacture 

 of the beet sugar, is generally incomparably cheaper in our 

 country than in France ; in the town I inhabit, not 1-3 the 

 price, land not one quarter, ^(Zares comparatively nothing ; 

 and no fear hanging over us as it now does over the French 

 manufacturer, that Government, is standing ready and will 

 ere long pounce upon him and claim the Lion's portion. 

 Of those who entertain fears from the comparative price of 

 labor I should be inclined to ask, how it happens that our 

 cotton and a variety of other manufactories can stand a 

 competition even mfoi^eign markets with those of Europe 

 for many kinds of goods ? the answer is obvious, it is 

 to the superior intelligence and activity of our country- 

 men that we owe the prosperity of these undertakings, and 

 why should not these which are universal elements of suc- 

 cess work as well in a beet sugar, as a cotton manufacto- 

 ry : It is true in some few manufactures the almost entire 

 value of which is the labor required to produce them, and 

 which demand the aggregation of an endless variety of tal- 

 ents and krts that time only can produce; such for instance 

 as the rich and costly tissues of Lyons, in these I admit 

 we could not expect to compete with any fair prospect of 

 success, (though in the more common silk goods we might), 

 nor is it of any importance to us that we should ; the case 

 before us is very different and far from seeing any cause of 

 discouragement for the manufactory of indigenous sugar, 

 I perceive every security for the most complete success. 

 We have furnished France, and Europe, with many im- 

 portant discoveries of which they are reaping the advantage. 



