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evident that there will be a corresponding aemand for 

 animal power, as well as for that more potent, derived 

 from the elements ; and although tne latter may vastly 

 predominate, yet should the horse be employed, and 

 his increase for other purposes continue, as it now 

 does in the ratio of population, the number, at no very 

 distant period, may become as alarming in our own, 

 as it is at present in our mother country. And not- 

 withstanding we may feel secure, from the extent of 

 our territory and extreme diversity of soil and climate, 

 but, above all, from being in possession of Indian 

 corn — the golden fleece found by our "pilgrim 

 fathers," when they first landed on these shores ; yet 

 such peculiar advantages may not insure us against the 

 visitations of one of the most distressing calamities 

 that a feeling community can possibly be subjected to. 

 Brighton, Mass. May 27, 1825. 



