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gratify them, in return, by not laying the restriction of two-thirds 

 on the power of Congress to regulate Commerce.* 



The fruits that grew from such diversity of seeds are yet in 

 partial vegetation, and mark as a sequence the measures and pro- 

 ceedings of the present day. We are now in full tide of commer- 

 cial, manufacturing and agricultural prosperity. Our country, 

 small at beginning, now covers America, in the fullness of its 

 power. We have increased from a few colonies to be the nation 

 of this continent, and we stand proudly prominent in the civil- 

 ized world. 



The population, wealth, strength and prosperity of the North- 

 ern States are quadrupled by reason of their Commerce, Manufac- 

 tures, Internal Improvements, and labor-saving machinery. Mas- 

 sachusetts has over eight hundred miles of Railroad. New- York 

 has her canals, and about 1200 miles of Railroad. The South- 

 ern States, after an age of resistance, and without material ad- 

 vancement on their part, have come to realize and appreciate 

 this important fact, and are now fast entering into the competi- 

 tion, in all its varieties. AVith their climate and soil, the arti- 

 cles of Madder and Tea, and the Vineyard, wili aflford them new 

 staples. 



" The Georgvd Helicon sets down the number of cotton mills in 

 the States of Georgia, Tennessee, South Carolina and Alabama, 

 at 98, in which are invested about $1,000,000. Some 16,000 

 hands are employed, and 152,000 spindles. They consume 

 94,000 bales of cotton per annum." It is believed tliese state- 

 ments are short of the reality. They do not include the whole 

 South, nor show one-half its recent investments in business pur- 

 suits. Many new enterprises are on foot at the South. If the 

 present year does not, tlie addition of a second year will show 

 many more millions invested in their successful industrial pur- 



♦ Journals of the Convention— Published 1818, by order of the 15th Congress. 



Communication of Luther Martin to the Legislature of Maryland, 1787. 



Letter of Gov. Randolph of Virginia, against the Katification of the Constitution 

 of the U. S., without the two-thirds clause against the power of Congress to legis- 

 late on Commerce, 1787. 



The Journal of Yates and Lansixg, &c., &c., published at Albany, &c. 

 [Genet, &c.] 



