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by it ; defence is more difficult and expensive ; active 
hostility almost impossible ; the communication of socie- 
ty, and of course of knowledge, is greatly retarded ; 
many of our citizens are tempted to live in a half savage 
state ; and even the administration of law, and the mainte- 
nance of order and necessary subordination, is rendered 
imperfect, tardy, and expensive. 
2dlv. Our agriculturists want a home market : manu- 
factures would supply it. Agriculture at great distances 
from seaports, languishes for want of this. Great Britain 
exhibits an instance of unexampled power and wealth, 
by means of an agriculture greatly dependent on a sys- 
tem of manufacture : and her agriculture, thus situated, is 
the best in the world, though still capable of great im- 
provement. 
3dly. We are too much dependent upon Great Britain 
for articles that habit has converted into necessaries. A 
state of war demands privations that a large portion of 
our citizens reluctantly submit to. Home manufactures 
would greatly lessen the evil. 
4thly. By means of debts incurred for foreign manufac- 
tures, we are almost again become colonists ; we are too 
much under the influence, indirectly, of British merchants 
and British agents : we are not an independent people. 
Manufactures among us would tend to correct this, and 
give a stronger tone of nationality at home. I greatly va- 
lue the intercourse with that country, of pre-eminent 
knowledge and energy, but our dependence upon it is of- 
ten so great, as to be oppressive to ourselves. 
5thly. The state of agriculture would improve with 
the improvement of manufactures, by means of the gene- 
ral spirit of energy and exertion w hich no w here exists in 
so high a degree as in a manufacturing country ; and 
by the general improvement Qf machinery, and the de- 
mand of raw materials* 
