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all religious feeling, and all social duty t the most 
productive^ because the capital admits of quicker re* 
turn ; because the whole of the capital is permanently in- 
vested and employed at home ; because it contributes di- 
rectly, immediately, and wholly, to the internal wealth and 
resources of the nation : because the credits given, are 
more easily watched, and more effectually protected by our 
own laws, well known, easily resorted to, and speedily ex- 
ecuted, than if exposed in distant and in foreign countries, 
controuled by foreign laws and foreign customs, and at 
the mercy of foreign agents : the most patriotic , because 
it binds the persons employed in it, by all the ties of habit 
and of interest, to their own country ; while foreign trade 
fonds to denationalize the affections of those whose pro- 
perty is dispersed in foreign countries, whose interests are 
connected With foreign interests, whose capital is but par- 
tially invested at the place of their domicil, and who can 
remove with comparative facility from one country to ano- 
ther. The wise man observed of old, that “ where the 
treasure is, there will the heart be also,’ 9 and time has not 
detracted from the truth of the remark. 
Nor can there be any fear that for a century to come, 
there will not be full demand produced by a system of 
home manufacture, for every particle of surplus produce 
that agriculture can supply. Consider for a moment what 
are the articles that may fairly be regarded as of the first 
necessity, that an agricultural capitalist will require either 
to conduct his business, or for his reasonable comforts. 
1st. The iron manufacture in all its branches from the ore 
to the boiling pans, the grate, the stove, the tire, the plough- 
share, the spade, the scythe, the knife and fork, the sword 
and the gun : the copper manufacture , for his distilling 
vessels ; for the bolts and sheathing of ships : the lead ma~ 
tiufacture , for his paints and his shot : the tin manufacture , 
for his kitchen utensils ; the manufacturing of powder 
