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of their skill and labor profitable to tliemselvs and acceptable to 

 their countrymen at least, in preference to similar articles from 

 abroad, competing successfully with the foreign producers in 

 price, and leaving them behind in the character of their articles, 

 because of their superiority in style and finish, their better adap- 

 tation to the purposes required and their value in labor-saving. 

 Let us ask, will our woodmen go into the forest with an axe 

 made in Europe? Will our farmers prepare their fields with a 

 foreign plow? Will they prepare for their harvest with scythes, 

 cradles, mowing machines and reapers from abroad? Will our 

 copper smiths and tin smiths look abroad for their tools? Will 

 our house and ship joiners and builders look beyond liome for 

 their axes, saws, planes, augers, rules, nails, hammers, tacks, 

 brads, bolts, locks, butt-hinges, door-kn bs, stained glass, &c.? 

 Will our tailors cut their garments with shears made in Birming- 

 ham or Sheffield ? Who sends abroad to purchase a carriage or 

 a piano forte? Our common laborers do not enter upon the toil 

 of the day unless armed with a shovel made at home, of proper 

 materials and form. 



After watching with the most intense anxiety, the progress of 

 our countrymen in the varied departments of labor and produc- 

 tion, for the last c^uarter of a century, we have come to the con- 

 clusion that, at no very distant day the people of these United 

 States will produce every thing wiiich can be obtained through 

 the agency of human hands, equal in price and in quality to the 

 best products of the old world, no matter what may be the course 

 of legislation, unless laws prohibiting the use and application of 

 native skill and industry are to be enforced. 



JAMES TALLMADGE, President, 



ROBT LOVETT, Vice President, 



FtOB'T L. PELL, " 



GEO. BACON, " 



E. T. BACKHOUSE, Treaswer, 



H. IVUEIGS, Recording Secntary, 



ADOXJRAM CHANDLER, Cor. Sec. 



Trustees. 

 New-York, December, 1852. 



