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in this country than in anotlier, tlien, and only then, nature for- 

 bids the employment, and to force it would be unwise. To raise 

 tropical fruits here, costs more labor than in the torrid zone ; but 

 iron and coal can be extracted from our mountains, and broad- 

 oloths and carpets can be woven upon our looms, with the same 

 expenditure of labor and sldll which are required in Wales or 

 Belgium. li the money cost is more here, it can only be because 

 labor demands a higher reward ; and that such is the case is mat 

 ter, not of regret, but of exultation. Labor has wants here which 

 are unknown elsewhere. It demands its hours of leisure; its 

 oomfortable and refining hcnse ; its means of mental cultivation; 

 and, above all, ability to educate the children who, while the 

 father bends in cheerful toil over ilie anvil or the bench, are 

 laving the foundations of the learning which is preparing them 

 to become your preachers, your authors, your inveiltors, your 

 Senators, your Governors, and the Presidents of your Republic, 

 Well, therefore, may we exult in the fact that labor demands a 

 higher compensation here than el^^cwhere, as its w^nts are higher 

 and more extended. 



The law to which I have just alluded, viz., tljat nature forbids 

 the productions which require a greater amount of labor here 

 than elsewhere, provides for the pursuit of another great branch 

 ■if human industry, commerce. 



In a country like ours, internal commerce far transcends in 

 importance that which is exclusively f .-reign. The sails of do- 

 mestic commerce are hovering constantly on our coasts ; our 

 rivers and lakes are alive with unnumbered and nameless water 

 craft ; our railroads groan under the weight of richlj-frcighted 

 •ars, and all our millious of liigffAvays are worn smooth by the 

 wheels of internal trade. All this, stimulated and sustained by 

 the industrial independence which, to ^certain extent is already 

 ours, and which must grow to more perfect maturity with tlie 

 growih of our nation, furnishes the means and the materials of 

 that vast foreign commerce which is so imi)ortant an element in 

 our national greatness. As wealth, enterprise, and taste increase, 

 human wants expand in more than equal measure. Climes far 

 away over distant seas, lands breathed upon by softer gales, 

 warmed by a brighter flun, and visited by stars which never beam 



