are we able to trace the period when the cul- 

 ture was arrested. Many of the trees, how- 

 ever, we are told, remain, and it would be an 

 easy matter to multiply these, and commence 

 anew this profitable branch of business. No 

 one who knows the enterprising character of 

 the people of the west can presume, that they 

 will leave so good a chance of emolument un- 

 improved, when they have so many facilities 

 within their possession for entering into the 

 culture under most favorable auspices. 



We have thus briefly sketched the princi- 

 pal facts as they have been placed within our 

 reach, and without pretending to have given 

 any thing like a full view, we merely claim 

 for what we have written, the desire of fideli- 

 ty, which has never been absent from our 

 mind for a solitary instant. 



In closing this branch of our labors, we 

 must be indulged in a few remarks expres- 

 sive of our hopes, that a feeling and an inter- 

 est has already been aroused, which will not 

 slumber until the triumph shall be complete. 

 We are doubly solicitous on this head, be- 

 cause we see in the success of the silk cul- 

 ture, the surest means that philanthropy could 

 desire, for sustaining the thousands and tens of 

 thousands of poor women and children, whose 

 support is now stinted and precarious ; be- 

 cause we see in it too, a radical cure for an 



evil which is sweeping the inhabitants from 

 the old settlements with a force which almost 

 threatens depopulation to many neighbor- 

 hoods; and lastly, because, it will afford the 

 pecuniary ability of improving the other por- 

 tions of each estate on which its culture may 

 be introduced. To several of the old states, 

 it offers the only available resource for politi- 

 cal safety, the only guaranty against those 

 encroachments which never fail to follow in 

 that train of evils that befal the weak in the 

 vicinity of the pmoerful. There is no truth 

 more firmly enforced by history, than that 

 peace and independence, is only to be expected 

 where the ability to repel and punish aggres- 

 sion is enjoyed. It should, therefore, be the 

 policy of small powers living in close vicinage 

 with large ones, to keep a careful prospective 

 eye about them, in order that their more po- 

 tent neighbors may not be provoked by their 

 weakness to contemplate their subjugation ; 

 for the history of the ancient Republics con- 

 firms the melancholy truth, that power, in the 

 view of nations, is but another word for right; 

 that the ties of consanguinity and the claims 

 of common origin, offer no barriers to that 

 unchastened ambition and unbounded desire 

 of conquest, which is indulged in by most 

 states, towards their weaker neighbors. 



