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the use of it altogether. If, on the other hand, the pro- 

 prietor of a sugar mill were to proclaim a table of rates at 

 which he would make sugar, and also the prices at which 

 he would buy cane, and if he would provide himself with 

 a double set of operatives, who would run his works night 

 and day, never permitting them to stop except on the Sab* 

 bath, from the commencement of the sugar harvest to its 

 close, he would save the interest upon the capital invested 

 in them, for all the additional time they were in motion, 

 which would be more than half. 



He might also, during the balance of the year, use his 

 engine and buildings in sawing lumber, or in some kind of 

 manufacturing to which they might be adapted, and 

 escape the absurd expense of importing shingles and staves 

 from Maine, lumber from Georgia, refined sugar from Lou- 

 isiana, and flour and cheese from New York, and all his 

 textile fabrics from Great Britain. By this process, too, 

 the small proprietor might save all his interest upon works 

 and machinery, which constitute such a burden at present 

 to the sugar makers, and by virtue of all the reasons upon 

 which is based the great and familiar principle, that cheap 

 prices follow the division of labor, he would get his canes 

 ground upon better terms than even the large proprietors 

 can do it for themselves, under the present system. 



Mr. Stanley very flippantly dismissed from his considera- 

 tion, this proposal to separate the culture from the manu- 



