24 THE IMPORTANCE OF 



ly to stake his life upon a contest for what he con- 

 ceived duty to that country required ? Who does 

 not know, that the fishermen of New England, 

 under a Tucker, (himself a fisherman), and a 

 Hull, performed for their country the most brilliant 

 achievements, and displayed at the same time, all 

 the noble qualities of the citizen and the patriot ? 



Massachusetts, with her intelligent population, 

 her advances in manufactures and the arts, — her 

 enterprising commerce and flourishing fisheries, 

 contains within herself, all the elements of strength 

 and power. A minute examination of the mutual 

 bearing of all these interests, will show how im- 

 portant it is, that each should be sustained by the 

 protection of the others. The inhabitants of the 

 sea-board will exchange with those of the interior, 

 the products of the ocean and foreign climes, for 

 those of our native soil, with mutual advantage and 

 profit. The interior will naturally seek channels for 

 the conveyance of its surplus productions to the 

 sea-board, for the purposes of exchange, and thus 

 private interests, if not public sentiment, will in 

 obedience to the dictates of a wise and prudent 

 policy, open avenues which will at the same time 

 develope the resources of the State — bind together 

 the various local interests — and quicken the cir- 

 culation of intelligence and good feelings. 



Small though she is in territory, what State, 



