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home to manufacture every article that wo require for our own 

 consumption. But before I go any farther, I cannot refrain from 

 asking you to look at the legislation of Congress in 184G ; its 

 mistaken policy and the cruel results. It has caused the total 

 ruin of thousands and tens of thousands of the most useful men 

 in the country. It tends to the utter destruction of the coal and 

 the iron, the cotton and woolen interests. The act of Congress 

 of that date provided a taritf on the raAV materials, higlier than 

 on the imported manufactured articles, which had the effect of 

 materially injuring our manufactures and depressing domestic 

 labor. I hope that the next Congress will wipe from its statute- 

 book that law, whicli was so irijurious in its effects. 



We have been trying for several years to make our own cut- 

 lery. Here are specimens which are considered better than 

 those imported. Our country has ?one on in a great career of 

 prosperity ; but the unfortunate system of putting a tax upon the 

 raw material has ruined capital and worked injuriously upon 

 the manufacturers. It has left us this year under a debt of fifty 

 millions, being the balance of trade against us, for imported ar- 

 ticle from Europe. It is time that our interests and our labor 

 were cherished with reasonable and fair protection. 



Let it not be supposed that any articles not mentioned are 

 purposely omitted. We would notice all kindly, for we- feel 

 that all have contributed alike to raise our country to a promi- 

 nent position among the nations of the earth. Time forbids. 



Walk into the macliine-room, and after inspecting it, I am sure 

 you will say there is not its equal to be found The same science 

 which is there concentrated and exhibited cannot be surpassed. 

 There is Griffin's improved Furnace-fire for the steam boiler, and 

 a place has been prepared to exliibit the machinery, which works 

 with wonderful precision and order. That shaft and that engine 

 lun as steady as a patent lever watch, disturb nobody in the ac- 

 tion, and the amount of fuel that has been saved, is about one- 

 third that was formerly consumed. It is also calculated as a heat- 

 er for separate buildings, and is particularly adapted to public 

 edifices and for drying rooms. 



