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factures a more accurate account of her power and greatness, than 

 has ever been deciphered of the past from the imperishable monu- 

 ments of p-enius : for even these tell not a tale of civilization so im- 

 pressive, as the simple winding-sheet torn from the skeleton that it 

 has enshrouded for hundreds of years. 



The secret of England's power and greatness is in the protection 

 of her own industry. From the days of her Edwards and her Henrys, 

 when she launched her first battle ship and imported sailors to man 

 it — when, to foster her o\vn manufactures, she excluded those of other 

 countries, and even made the exportation of raw materials felony, and 

 required the dead to be buried in woollen j unto the present time, she 

 has pursued the same policy of protection. It is inscribed upon the 

 sails of her ships ; stamped upon the products of her arts, and em- 

 blazoned upon every monument of her genius, enterprise and power. 

 Through all change of time, of sovereigns, of ministers, and of parties 

 —beneath this broad shield, England has stood armed against the 

 world. With her unchangeable position of buying nothing she could 

 produce, she has successfully competed with all competition. 



Within the last half century, our country has sprang forth her ri- 

 val. In this contest she possesses peculiar advantages — a broad ex- 

 panse of territory in the heart of a new continent, laved by an ocean 

 on either side stretching out like a beautiful carpet, through every va- 

 riety of clime, and intersected with magnificent mountains, valleys, 

 rivers and lakes, with every peculiarity of soil, producing all the ne- 

 cessaries and most of the luxuries of life — sparkling all over with the 

 richest minerals, abounding in the elements of national wealth, with 

 immense facilities of internal and external communication, and teem- 

 ing with a population literally panting for the conflict. Let us sus- 

 tain them, that we may give happiness to the wretched, permanency 

 to our wealthy, character to our country — replenish the national trea- 

 sury, establish confidence, put in motion millions of machinery, give 

 employment to millions of citizens, cheer the husbandman with the 

 certainty of a market, whiten the ocean with canvass, speed the canal- 

 boat and car, and electrify this entire nation with new life and ener- 

 getic action. 



