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Pawtucket, R. I., and of Utica, N. Y. Our locomotives found 

 their way abroad and drove the English from the markets of 

 Central Europe. And now that recent treaties with South 

 America have placed us on the same commercial footing with 

 Great Britain, a rich field for enterprise is opened in those coun- 

 tries. Let us not abandon the vantage ground which our indus- 

 try has gained. Let us be true to ourselves, that our country 

 may press onward with unfaltering step in the march of prosperi- 

 ty and power, 



I have thus far, gentlemen, endeavored to direct your atten- 

 tion to some of the results which American industry has achiev- 

 ed, to show how it was instrumental in framing our political in- 

 Btitutions, and thus in securing to our country an incalculable 

 Influence on the destinies of the world. I have traced the effects 

 of that influence in the revolutions of nations, and in the milder 

 forms in which it is developed, and I have considered the doc- 

 trine of protection, as " the one thing needful to preserve the in- 

 terests of American industry unimpaired." 



One subject more presents itself and demands our serious at- 

 tention. It is one before which all others shrink to insignificance. 

 It has been said that the industrial interests of the United States 

 might survive their Union. True it may be so — as the fragments 

 of the Memnonium survive the armies of Cambyses, to show 

 what Thebes has lost — as the riven oak survives the thunderbolt, 

 to witUer &,nd decay — as the tribes of Israel Burvive the curse of 

 God, to be the reproach of men. It has been said that manu- 

 fectures and the Union are alike " rooted in interest and attach- 

 ment beyond the power of those to rend or destroy, who can calm- 

 ly calculate the value of the one, or blindly deny the importance 

 of the other." The time has come when both these contingencies, 

 supposed impossible, are realized : one is sacrificed to the spirit 

 of party ; the other, if not " calmly calculated," is at least mad- 

 ly assailed in the blindness of sectional strife. 



If we would not destroy all that we have created, involve our- 

 selves in ruin, and dash the cup of hope from the lips of expec- 

 tant man j if we would not belie the language of our glorious 

 declaration, and te^r open with sacrilegious hands the graves of 



