tionship. Tims all branches of industry help and assist each other, 

 and all are made richer and happier. 



Rut the vital utility of manufactures to the fanner is in their 

 subserviency to agriculture by affording to the husbandman a nearer 

 and steady home market. They give him the advantage of two 

 markets instead of one. And instead of quickening the industry 

 and augmenting the resources of other nations, they stimulate and 

 increase the capital and honor of our own. 



In order to show the more intimate connection between agri- 

 culture and its kindred interests, I would refer to a speech of Mr. 

 Stewart of Pensylvania in Congress on the Woolens Bill of 1828. 

 He said that he supported the bill from its supposed benefits to 

 agriculture, on the ground that protection to our manufactures 

 created a home market for our farmers which no change in Europe 

 could effect, and prevent the importation of foreign agricultural 

 products to the neglect of our own. lie continued : " What is the 

 importation of cloth but the importation of agricultural products '' 

 Analyze it, resolve it into its constituent parts or elements, and 

 what is it ? Wool and labor. What produces the wool ? Grass 

 and Grain. What supports labor but bread and meat ? Cloth is 

 composed of the grass and grain that feed the sheep, and the 

 bread and meat that support the lab >rer who converts the wool 

 into cloth." He also controverted t'ie idea that the encourage- 

 ment of manufactures was injurious to commerce, and held it to 

 be a sound doctrine that the prosperity of commerce would al- 

 ways be in proportion to the prosperity of agriculture and manu- 

 factures. 



Daniel Webster once spoke of agriculture as follows : "It feeds 

 us, to a great extent it clothes us, without it we should not have 

 manufactures, we should not have commerce. They all stand to- 

 gether, like pillars in a cluster, the largest in the centre, and that 

 largest is Agriculture." Washington said: " I know of no pur- 

 suit in which more real and important service can be rendered to 

 any country than by improving her agriculture. A skillful agri- 

 culture will constitute one of the mightiest bulwarks of which 

 civil liberty can boast." 



Did he foresee the great struggle through which his country 

 was to pass, and through which it could not have passed triumph- 

 antly but with the assistance of this " mighty bulwark" that com- 

 pelled the South to give up sooner than she would had not starv- 



