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cheapness and abundance render the country independent 

 of supplies from foreign sources, surely steps will be taken 

 to adopt universally such improvements as will prevent its 

 continuance. 



The planters of slave-holding states are convinced that, 

 even with their advantages of compulsory and continuous 

 labour, they will not ultimately be able to maintain their 

 position, unless they take advantage of every aid which 

 science and skill can afford them, as is evinced by the large 

 orders for machinery which our engineers and coppersmiths 

 are executing for them. We read, that at the present 

 moment an order is being executed for a single establish- 

 ment in Cuba for machinery to the amount of <£l 7,000, 

 and I have myself seen many large orders in progress of 

 construction. Do not these facts speak volumes? Do 

 they not show clearly that these men are looking forward 

 to the time when wasteful and inefficient methods of 

 manufacture will not advantage them, and that they are 

 availing themselves of their temporary prosperity to make 

 preparations for the struggle which they foresee, a struggle 

 in which only skill and energy, directed by science, can be 

 successful. 



