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STATE AaKICULTUEAL SOCIETY. 
“You tell me I am quoted by those who wish to continue our dependence 
on England for manufactures. There was a time when I might have been so 
quoted with more candor. * * * We have since experienced what we 
did not then believe—that there exists both profligacy and power enough to 
exclude us from the field of interchange with other nations; that to be 
independent for the comforts of life we must fabricate them ourselves. We 
must now place the manufacturer by the side of the agriculturist.” 
Andrew Jackson, in 1826, wrote to Dr. Coleman: 
“In short, sir, we have been too long subject to the policy of British mer¬ 
chants. It is time that we should become a little more Americanized^ and in¬ 
stead of feeding the paupers and laborers of England, feed our own, or else 
in a short time, by continuing our present policy, we shall be rendered 
paupers ourselves. 
Henry Clay, speaking of the balance of trade against this country, uttered 
words worthy of heed to-day: 
•‘In the mean time there will be an export of the precious metals, to the 
deep injury of internal trade, and export of public securities, a resort to 
credit, debt, mortgages. All of these conditions are believed now to be 
indicated by our country in its commercial relations. What have we 
received for the bonds sent to England ? Goods. But these bonds must be 
paid.” 
In 1846, Daniel Webster, looking into the future of this Northwest, sagai 
ciously said: 
“The Northwestern States are destined to be manufacturing States. They 
have iron and coal. They have a people of laborious habits. They have 
already capital enough to begin works such as belong to new States and new 
communities; and when the time comes—and it cannot but come soon—they 
will see their true interest to be to feed the Northern and Eastern manufac¬ 
turers, as farasthey may require it, and in the meantime begin to vary their 
occupations by having classes of men among them who are not of the now 
universal agricultural population. The sooner they begin this work the 
better ; and begin it they will, because they are an intelligent and active 
people, and cannot fail to see in what direction their true interest lies.” 
These are the opinions of great Americans. Similar opinions of great 
Europeans might be given. 
Our distinguished political economist, Henry 0. Carey, well known on both 
Continents, and whose masterly writings should be in every home library and 
in every school, well says: 
“ Steadiness and regularity in the returns to agricultural labor grow with 
increase in the variety of commodities produced in the land. Disease tends 
to disappear as population increases and a near market is created. The poor 
Irishman sees his potatoes rot, consequent on the increasing exhaustion of 
the^soil; the Portuguese witnesses his hopes destroyed by the vine disease ; 
