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through the whole scheme and the whole fabric of society, the 

 whole theoiy and the whole practice of the world — and that is, 

 increased profit and increased production, — greater capacity for 

 producing, sustaining, educating, advancing the race. The 

 small and despised stream which flows through the heart of this 

 city, is a wiser witness and a more liberal philosopher than we. 

 What growth, and upbuilding, and expansion of industry has it 

 not witnessed ! It very early beckoned to its banks a scattered 

 humble, dependent colony of mechanics. It kept them up 

 through prosperous and adverse fortune, till now a score of 

 smoking shafts penetrate the sky, and from the reservoir on the 

 north to its southern outlet, its banks are vocal with the hammer 

 and the axe, the whirling wire and the building machine, the 

 forming plough and the noisy plane, the fierce glow of the fur- 

 nace and the heavy working of iron, the whiz of the car-shop 

 and the crack of the pistol — while a host of children, whom no 

 man can number, look towards it in the morning and in the 

 evening, for their daily bread. If I were to call upon this pro- 

 ductive rivulet for its testimony, what think you, it would be? 

 Why, to be sure, that the wire-maker and the machine-builder 

 combined to supply the cotton and woolen mill — that the plough- 

 maker furnished his wares for the whole agricultural world — 

 that the iron man, with his five or six scores of hands, was at 

 work for every body — and so on to the end of the chapter, con- 

 cluding with this essential and impressive fact, that, as this com- 

 munity has increased from year to year, new churches and new 

 schools, a little more counsel and a little more medicine, yet 

 other stores for wholesale and retail, more boarding-houses, and^ 

 shoe-shops, and tailors and hatters, and grocers, and dress- 

 makers, were demanded and came in upon us, till the town has 

 become, what we behold it to-day — all helping one another, and 



THE FARMER FEEDING THE WHOLE. i hold hiui tO be a SUSpicioUS 



friend, who would scatter the seeds of dissension where Provi- 

 dence and natural causes have established a coincidence of in- 

 terest; and against his testimony I place that ever-speaking and 

 benevolent stream, as it carries down to the waters of the Black- 

 stone, to be diffused over yet larger communities between this 

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