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Prom ike EAGLE*
AGRICULTURE;
A POEM,
By PlilLir Garrigain, of Concord, New Htmpfulrt.
DELIVERED
Ai the aitniverfary QotnmencemeHt of llnrtntjHtb Uw~
verJStn Hanover, Aug. in, 179-.
SWAINS of the field ! your dusty labors stay*
Nordrefs your green com in the blaze of day ;
But reft an hour upon this pan Red g lade;
St.-.' i!.) from thr noon-beams, by this ifr aple's- fhaje,
Ann i-i the art you ply. your rfiiiid amule,
Surest 111 the fun nets of th ruftie muTe,—
F.'*e Agftuhufe Irei polifrc haitcl
Wa»«« o' c-r the joylef* iirteftV of a landV
The face of earth, nature friroad?,
J ; cloui3 of vapours and a' night of woods:
Tbefe. scarce the plants their di toha'ge rear,
No Zephyis kii'e thrtn, and no lun beam? cheer ;
Lini'erin* and fad the lonely wild flowers bloom,
Pine on their thorns and weep amid the gl.iom.
Loud howls the panting Wolf, in dismal fpello,
The fcrpent hi (Tea, and the Panther yells.
Pale,a'et the desert, swims the .av-yted moon,
And horror tides the winds of nigm's fad noon !
No birds of song, at morn's becrimfon'd ray,
Wak- the wild woods and hail emerging day.
But o'cV the hills the familh'd Eagle tails,
Andiooty Ravens croak along the vales,
Where, Hoping down, some lonely river glide?,
With Plaited hemlocks nodding on its fides,
lis naked waves no loaded barks fuftam,
17ui roll unvifited, unheard, by man.
Save that loose pilgrim hunter thence may steer,
Loft in the chacings of th? mountain Deer.
Forfar, far homeland weeping, dreads his doom,
To find ro other, tha:i the woods, his tomb !
Bun when the!- native lhades are swept away,
And earth, unfhrouded, to the light of day 5
When Agr'uulltfrt, with the parting fliare,
TurSs the tang furrow to salubrious air.
Soon from the feed, inhum'd with glad surprise,
She fees her itranger plants, in order rife,
Flaunt to the fun, the dews of morn inhale,
And wni.fk-their infant leaflets to the gale.
fJrton, o'er her lap, afar, the verdure fprcads,
Laughs on th(?hi!l3, and b'.ulhes in the meads;
Shaded by Tarious dyes, some parts adorn
Mellifluous clover, some the afpi ing corn.
There springs the vellile flax, the bloflbmed peas,
There the tall green grass, whifiling in the breeze ;
In grateful tides, its fpiry billows play,
, And the field rolls a vegetable sea !
Gay round their bleat fng dams, in sportive groups,
The larr.kins skip. and race »n little troops.
The Iturdier herds, wide o'er the paftury glade,
Snuff the piue gale, and crop the tender blade ;
Ten thousand thqufand, of the plumy train,
In mingling carols, cheer the blooming plain ;
I Fro*) the green fields exhaufttefs odors rife,
m in. grateful incense, to the foftering skies.
I, And when the fun, with Red bread's song decays,
LAi'd paints the hill tops with his linking rays,
■The blooming virgins /lance, in sprightly meiq,
r .» .[J fiiv;, flatter lillies on the green.
m 4 x-iwr.'ixrrc rTtmi:in? Wiiiv.s.
' 1 hus Education, from his native wood,
.ueavis tne wild savage -barbarous and.riirle ;
1 ones his rotigh boi. m to each thought refin'd,
And tames the furious paflions of his mind ;
Directs his devious ftr-ps in virtue's road,
And bends his heart to wifdam and :o God.
Hail, agriculture, hail! thy charming ray
Converts the midnight of the foil to day ; *
Like Spring; the fetters of the glebe unbinds,
Reforms the rnifts, and purifies "the winds..
i hus Health ambroiial blooms, where poifonsbred,
And plenty smiles, \yher<> famine dioop'd his head,
The wealth of rations and their facial laws,
Behold in thee their origin and canfe.
By thee the rolling, wheel of commerce runs,
A'ifJ hence flie peopl.-s Ocean with her Sims ;
I liee their sole prt>p, towns, cities, countries fee,
And all -the living world depends cn thee,
With thee reigninnocence, Content and Bliss,
1 he laughing ci ei übs of -domestic peace,
Thy votaries breasts no torturiug crimes alarm,
The vulture vites fliun the peaceful farm ;
On Qnixot wings let vain ambition soar,
itrive for arts tranfctiidirig mortal power ;
•i*f Mlanthardlaunch hisjiry fljiff aiid rife,
O'er the light ftirges of the fhorelefe -feies,
And thought some Ansel, b\ aftonifh'ddo.wda,
Cradled in winds, And fiillc-wed upon Clouds,
Sail torn the lefftning Earth, with daunilefs breast,.
Td iviipre the lightnings (lee-p, the thunders reft.
But know, bold artist ! Heav n's Almighty plaiij
Deiign'd this Globe, the-befl balloon for Man.
Taught him to delve it's dull, and here sojourn,
Frorn where he sprang, to where he mult return.
A'nd.'may age those honots give,
1/Ue to that art, by which all others live ;
Twine the green laurel round the Farmer's brow,
And learn to lift, -ta veneiate the plough,
Its rugged sons a caufrtly's bulwark form—
1 was fuel), whodarefl to brave Oppreflion's storm ;
'Twas such, Columbia ! -when a tyrant's hand,
cpi-tad death and ciAknefs o J or the indignant land,
Who bade, on high, thy ftar'ry banners wave,
And fought the battles of fhefre-e and brave.
Where are they now ? by whofe-exploits are
Your fields, your civil rights, confirrr.ed.by blood :
Where are they now ?—The muses a/1? with pain
T-1 haps they sleep onYorke' or Monmouth's plain.
Bare to the winds,that swept the porfe-elad hekk.
Bare to the night-born dews, the moon jdfttills,
•i»>iir soldier's bled, upon their turf green biers,
'ihiir tombs of glory are their country's tears t
„ rirr and sun das, 'at wimblebozz.
[«5f PET E R PINDAR.]
; , O fay, where fir* was plann'd thy Powdfr fchemc?
■ At Wi?riltd::n arof'e the golden dream ;
\V here thou, -and honeit A/Mic/y-huntirig JtIARRY,
, I'i-ojcift, and-rt-j-rc-jeiSl. aad oft niifcirry?
Two, Graziers, cheiip'tiing'hogs, to fill your styes;
Two spiders weaving linns for iimple.flies,
Rich spot! whence millions take their ealy wing ;
'I<i hril'c an Empcior, and refrtjb a King,;
• Where, Heft, ye bumper it in-England's cause,
O ion's fall, and hiccup laws;
Wi.'h equal spirit; where each work fuoteeds,
A r.ow, and now a. Nation Mccus.
[concluded.]
Though it will be partly a digrefilon, I cannot
forbear, is this place tp notice some observations of
Cato in his 10th number. After Rating, that in
1784, the peltry from Canada fold in London for
2?o,oool. Iterling, he proceeds to observe, that,
excluding, the territories ofthe Hudson's Bay Com
pany, nine tenths of this trade is within the limits
ofthe United States; and though, with studied
ambiguity of exprelfion, he endeavours to have it
nnderftood, that nine tenths of the trade which
yielded the peltry, that fold for 230,0-0!. sterling
in 1784, was within our territories. It is natural
to ask how he has akertained t)ie limitsofthe Hud-
Jon's Bay Company (which at other i 3 El
ferted, by way »1 objection to the article, to be al
together indefinite) with so much exaftnefs as to be
able to pronounce what proportion, if any, of the
trade carried on through Canada may have come
from that country, towards the calculation which
has led to the conelufion, that nine tenths of
the wholelies within oui limits ? The truth is, indu
bitably and notoriously, that whether any or what
ever part of the peltry exported from Canada may
come from the country ofthe Hudson's Bay Com
pany, seven eighths* of the whole trade which fur ( -
nifhes that peltry, has its fouiee on t!»e Britiflifide
ofthe boundary line. It follows, that if it were
»v*r. true, that only <yie tenth of the whole lay in
that part <rf the Britith territory, which is not of
the Hudson's Bay Company, inatmuch as onK
one seventh of >t lies within our limits, the- reluh
would be, that the trade in yvhich we granted an
equal privilege was\«that in which a like privilege
is granted to us, as one seventh to one tenth, and
not, according to Cato, as nine to one. This le
gerdemain, in argnment and calculation, is really
too frivolous foi so serious a fuhjeft : Or to speak,
more properly, it is too shocking, by the spirit of
deception which it bcirays. C*to has a further
observation with regard to the trade with the Indi
ans in the vicinity ofthe Miflitippi. and from that
river into the Spanish territories; theprodt ft o all
this trade, he fays, mult down the Miffifippi,
and, but for the ftipulaiion of the third article,
would have been exclufivtty ours; betaufe," by
the treaty of Paris, though the Biitilh might 11a-
vigate the Miffifippi, yet they did not own afoot
jof land upon either of its banks; whereas the Uni
j ted States possessing all the Indian countryVn the
vicinity of that river, and-the Eatt bank for many
hundred »miles, could when they pleased eltablifh fac
tories and monopolize that commerce." This as
sertion with regard ti the treaty at Paris, is in eve
ry sense incorrect ; for the seventh article of that
treaty, e(ta>>li(hes as a boundary between the domil
nions of France and his Britnnnic Majelty, " a line
drawn along the middle of the river M:fli!ippi, from
its fourceto the tiver Iberville, and from thence by
aline drawn along the middle of this riv/r and the
lakes Maurepas and Pont Chartraim tc the fca," ,
and cedes to his Britannic majelty ail country 1
on the F.aft fide of the Miffifippi. By the t j
of Paris then his Britannic Majesty owned all, ex
ritbry on tfieEaft TitTe of the Miffifippi, iuitcad of
not having a foot of land there.
What part of this territory does not (till be
long to him, is a point not ye' fettled. The treaty
of peace between the United States and Great Bri-
tain, supposes that part will remain to Great Bri
tain ; for one line of boundary betwee i us and her,
donated by that treaty, is a line due well from
the lake of the woods to the Miffifippi. If in fact
this river runs far enough north to be inteife&ed
by such a line, according to the f.ippofition of the
last mentioned treaty, so much of that river, and the
land upon it,, as (hall be north of the line of inter
feron, wiil continue to be of the dominion of
Great Britain. The lately made treaty, not aban
doning the possibility of this being the cafe, pro
vides for a survey to ascertain the fad ; a"d in ev
ery event, the intent of the treaty of peace will re
quire that feme clufiHg line, more or less direst, shall
be drawn from the Inke of the woods to the
Miffifippi. The pofiticn therefore, that Great
Britain has no land or ports on the Miffifippi, takes
for granted what is not afceitsined, and of which
the contrary is presumed by the treaty of peace,
Ihe trade with the Indian country on our lide
of the Miffifippi, from the Ohio to the lake of the
woods, (if that river extends so far north) fomc
fragments excepted,has its present direction through
Detroit and Michillunaenac, and is included in ma
ny calculations, heretofore Itated of the proportion
which the Indian trade within our limits, bears to
that within the British limits. Its eflimated a
mount is even understood to embrace the proceeds
of* clandestine traffic with the Spaniffi territories,
so -that the new scene suddenly explored by Cato,
is old ?nd trodden ground, the special reference to
which cannot vary the rcfults that have been pre
ferred. It is still urqueflionable and notoriously
true, that the'fur trade within our limits, bears no
proportion to that within the British limits. Asto
contingent traffic with the territories of Spain,
each party will be free to pursue it according to
light and opportunity; each would have, indepen
dent cf the treaty, the facility of bordering territo
ries. The geography of the belt regions of the
fui* trade, in the Spanish territories, is tuo lit tie
known to be much reasoned upon, and if the Span
l'arda, according to their usual policy, incline to
exclude their neighbours, their precautions along the
Miffifippi will rentier theaccrfs to it circuitous : a
circumltanci* which makes it problematical, wheth
er the poflefiioh of the oppofitebank is, as to that
obje<&, an advantage er not, and whether we may
not find it coavenient to be able, under the trearv
to make.a circuit through the British territori. s.
2. it IB upon tWugj;elt*,n of Great But.rin
having no -ports Miffifippi, that thevhaige
of want -of reciprocity ,in the privilege granted
with regard to the us- of that tiver, is founded.,-!
Tiiefuggeftionl has been fliewn to be ire peremp
tory ;hati is jutlified by fads. Yet it is ftiil true/
that the ports oswmr fide be?ir no proportion to any
that can exill on the part of the Britift, according
* Some JlatemcnlS rate it betweenf.x eighths anjfc
vol eighths. m.'"- ' J
from Tut Argus.
THE DEFENCE No. XII.
♦ ♦
to the prefen; state of territory. It will be exam
ined in a subsequent J. lace, how far this difpropor*
tion is a proper rule in the eiliraa'e of reciprocity.
Bat let it be ebferved in the mean time, that in judg
ing of the reciprocity of an articlc, it is to be ta
ken colle&tvely. If upon the whole, the privileges
ottained are as valuable as those granted, there is a
lubftantial reciprocity ; and to this test, upon full
ard fair examination of the article, I freely refer
tie decision. Besides, if the situation of Great
B"itain did not permit in this particular, a pre
cis equivalent, it will not follow that the grant on
otr part was impioper, unless it can be (hewn, that
it w;:S attended with some inconvenience, injury or
lcifs to us j a thing which has not been, and I be
-1 i<ve cannot he iTie.v/r. Perhaps there is a very im
pcrtant beneficial tide to this quelt>on. 1 lie trea
ty of peace eltabliihed between us and Great Bri
tlinj a common interest in the Miflilippi ; the pre
sent treaty strengthens that common intereli. Ev.
cry body knows that the life of the river is denied
so by .Spain, and that it is an indispensable outlet to
our wettern country. It is an inconvenient thing
to us, that the interest of Great Britain has in this
particular been more completely fepaftited from that
of Spain, and more closely conuetted with ours ?
3. The agreement to forbear to lay dutie3 of en
try 011 peltries, is completely defenfible on the fol
lowing grounds, viz. It is the general policy of
commercial nations, to exempt raw materials from
duty. This has likewise been the uniform policy
of the United States, and it has particularly em
l»r»ced the article of peltries, \vhivh by ourexifting
laws may be imported into any part of the United
States, free from duty. The object of this regu
lation is the encouragement of manufactures by fa
cilitating a cheap supply of raw materials. A duty
of entry, therefore, as to f«ch part of the article
as might ae worked up at home, would be prejudi
cial to our manufacturing interest, as to such part
as might be exported, if the duty was not diawn
back, would injure our commercial interest. But
it is the general policy of our laws, in conformity
with the pradtice of other commercial countries,
torfraw baek and return the duties which arecharg
! edlupon the importation of foreign commodities.
Tlis has reference to the advancement of the ex
pojt trade of the country ; so that with regard to
such peltries as fhouid be re-exported, there would
advantage to our revenue from having laid a
duV of entry.
Sm ha duty then being contrary to our eftahlifh
ed iltem and to true principles, there can be no
objection to a stipulation against it. Asto its hav
ing Ihe effect of making our country the channel of
the (tiitifh trade in peltries, this, if true, and it is
indeld probable, could not but promote our inte
reli. A large proportion of the profits would thfn
necelTarily remain with us to compensate for tranf
portjtion and agencies, It is likely, too, that to
fecuit the fidelity of agents, as igufual, copartner
ships would be formed, of which British capital
wotil/1 be the principal interest, and which would
throw a fti'l greater proportion of the prohts into
our hands. The more we can make our country
the entrepot, the emporium of the trade of so-
the more' we fliall profit. There is tlo
COK.- r,r > ■'—:, i- — 1 , - 1 -'-
agreed, or more generally i>rs<?Hfed
up(>n. in countries where commerce is w tytder
ftoild
4. The fourth of the above enumerated suggesti
ons i) answered in its principal point by ihe practice
jutt fated, of drawing b:ick the ducics on import
ation, wheg articles are re-exported. This would
placi the articles, which we lliould fend into the
Britfh territories, exactly upon the fame footing
as til duties with the fame articles, imported thete
fron Europe. With regard to the additional ex
pend of transportation, this is another inftanee of
tlve -ontradi£hon of an argument, which has been
reliei upon by both fides, which is, that taking'
the 'oyage from Europe in conjunction with the in
terim transportation, the adrantage, tipon the
whn'e, is likely to be in our favour. And it is
upof this aggregate tranfpwrtation-that the calcul?
tion ought to be maue. With refpedt to India or
Altaic articles, there Is the cit-cunjllance of a dou
ble ioyage.
5. As to the fciall population of Canada, which is
urged ffc depreciate the advantages of the trade with
the »'hite inhabitants of those countries, it is to be nb
fervtd, that this population is not stationary. If the
date of the census be rightly quoted, it was taken ele
ven years ago, when there were already 113,081 fouls.
It is prefumeable that this number will soon be dou
b!tdf fnr it is notorious, that settlement has proceed
ed for some years with considerable rapidity in Upper
Canada, and there is no reason to believe that the fu
ture progress will be ilnw. In time to eome the trade
may grow into real magnitude, but be if more or less,
if beneficial; it is so much gained by the article ; and
so much clear gain, lince h has been ihewn not to be
true that it is counterbalanced by a facrifice in the fur
trade.
6. With regard to -the supposed danger of fraag
gling, in the intercourse permitted by this article, it is
very probable it will toe found less than if it were pro
hibited. Intirely to prevent trade between bordering
territories, is a very arduous, perhaps an impracti
cable talk. If not authorised, so much as is tarried on
must be illicit, and it may be reasonably presumed, that
the extent of illicit trade will be much greater in that
cafe, than yrhere a« intercourse is permitted •under the
usual regulations .and guards. In the last cafe, the in
ducement to it i« less, and such as will only influence
jierfons of little charatfer or principle, while every fair
trader is from private interest a sentinel to rhe laws;
in the other cafe, all are interest to break through the
barriers of a rigorous and apparently unkind prohibi
tion. This consideration has probably had its weight
with our government in opening a communication
through Lake Champlain with Canada ; of the .princi
ple of-which r«gulatiq» the treaty is only an ejetenfion
7- The .pretended inequality of the article, as ari
sing {roan the greater extent of the United States
than of the Britilh territories, Js one of those fanciful
positions which are so apt to haunt the brains of vision
ary politicians. Traced thioiigh all its confe<Juegces,
it would terminate that a great empire couid
never form a treaty of commerce,with a i'mall one;
fox to equalize advifitagrs according to th« i'caleof ter
ritory,-the small state mutt cogipcr.fite for its deficit
e,ncy in extent by a greater quantum of positive privi
lege is proportion to the difference of extent, which
would give the larger state the monopoly of its trade.
According to this principle, what wretched treaties
have we made with France, Swedes, ! ruflia, and
Holland ? For our territories exceed in extent "those of
eitl'.er of thei'e powers. How msmenfe the facrifice i»
the cafe of Holland ? for the United States are one hun
dred times larger than the United Provinces.
But how are we sure, that the extent »f the United
States is greater than the territories of Great Biitain
on our continent ? We kuow that (he has utetenConi
to extend to the Pacific Ocean, and to embrace a vast
wilderness, incomparably larger than the United S.lte«,
and we are told, as already mentioned, that het trad
ing eltablifhments now actually extend beyond the 56th
decree of north latitude, and 117 th degree of welt
longitude-
Shall we be told ((hifting the original ground) that
not extent of territß-y, but extent of population, is
the nieafure I Then how great is the a.'.vantage which
we gain in this particular, hy the treaty at large r The
population of Great Britain is to that of the United
States, about two and a half to one ; and the compa
rative concefiion by her in the trade between her Eu
ropean dominions and the Uniied States, muit bem
ihe fame ratio. When wt jidd to this the great popu
lation of her East-India pofleflions, in which privileges
«re granted to us, withcut any return, how prodi\;i
oully will the yaiu: of the trsaiy be enhanced, accor. •
iug to this new and extraordinary rule I
But the rule is in fa<£>, an abf'urd out, and only me
rits the notice which has been taken of it, to exhibit
the weak grounds of the opposition to the treaty. The
great standard of reciprocity as equal prixijfge. The
adventitious cireumfiatices which may render it race
beneficial to one paitv than the other, can iclrtom be
taken into the actoi.nt, because they fin seldom he ef
tiinated with certainty— the relative extent of countif
«r population, is of others, a failleioi;s guide.
The comparative resources and facilities for mutual
lupply, regulate the relative utility of a commercial
privilege; and as far as population js concerned, it
may be laid down as a general rule, that the fnn.'.'eft
population graduates the scale of the trade on both
(ides, since it is at once the principal meaiprt of what
the (mailed state can furuifh to the greater, and of
what it can take from the greater, or ill other v. urds,
of what the greater (late can find a demand for in the
smaller state. Hut this rule too, hke raoft genera}
ones, adm.ts of numerous exception;.
In the cafe of a trade by lamt and inland navigation,
thefpbereof the operation of any privilege* rati M'y
Extend a certain diftamx. v\ hen tiie distance to a gi
ven point, through a particular channel, is fui h that
the expencf of transportation would render an article
dearer than it could b; brought through another chan
nel to the fame point, the privilege to carry the article
through hat particular channel to such point, 1« omej
of no avail. Thus the privilege of trading by land or
inland navigation, from (he Brittfh tenhories on tfcis
continent, can procure to that c ountry no advantage of
trade with i'rncetcn in New-Jerky, becauie fuppltes
can come to it on better terms from other quarters*
Whence w« perceive, that the abfoliite extent of ter
ritory or population ot the United State's, is no mea
sure of tiie relative value of the privileges teciprccally
granted by the article under confederation, and coul'e
quently no criterion of the real reciprocity ol the arti?
cle.
The ohjetftors to the treaty have mar(hallcd against
this article a quaint fi o ure, of which from the use of
ir in different quarters, it is prefurocable they are not a
little enamoured ; it is this, that the article enables
Great Britain to draw a line of qu'er.'.mrvaii'"ftlm round
the United Stales. Tkcy hope t<> excite prejudice, by
preferring to the in»nd, trie image of a iiegc or iuvfcft
ment of the country. If trade be Mar, they have
chafes a most apt figure ; and we cannot but wonder,
the ynforUin ite .flaud of. Cr at M.i:a!n has heetj,
able so long to jitiintajri her independence arrruLtl the
beleaguering ess. »is of the number of nations with
of cofiHiicrcr; an J v/ho, h'r;r.i hi
1., -
s. How ti.cfcy il i. for sh. U..htJ s, '!..i at
l.'aft one fide is < ov-re j by hjiam, and tiiu. ,'Jr
midahle liae cf ..ir..uHrivi!iati(.n csnrjot be completely
perfected ! or rnthcr, now hard (iiiv.u luuli thole be,
w ho are obliged to call to their ?ii at'xiljaries so pre
posterous!
Can any pood rejfon be given, why one fide of a
country Hjou'd not i ■ acctffary t» foreigners for pur
poses of trade equally with another? iViight not the
cultivators on the fide from which they were excluded,
have cause to compla:-?, that the carriage of their pro
duaions was fiihjed to an increafcd fcharj«bf a mono
poly of the national navigation.j wliW the cultivator*
in other quarters enjoyed the ben ;St of a competition
between that and foreign and ir.ij.ht net
.all the inhabitants have a righf to dem nd a iea!ow,
why their commerce ihouhl be k.s open and free, thai)
that of other parts of tile country ? \y;H erivilcges of
trade extend the hne of terntorial pijtumva iation i
Will not the extent of contiguous British territory re
main the fame, wheiher the i omrnunicationi pi trade
are open or (hut ? Bv opmin; therrij may we not ra
ther be said to make so many breaches in the will, or
intrenchment of this newly invented circumvallation ?
indeed it len :>t inchanted!
The argument upon this article, has hitherto
turned, as to the trade With the white inhabitant*
of the British territories on European a;»d part In
dia goods. But there can be no doubt that a mil,
tually beneficial commerce in native commodities
ought to be included in the catalogue of advanta
ges. Already there is a ufeful interahange of cer
tain cotTimoditics, which tune and the progref? of
lettlement and refourCej cannot fa.il to extend. It
la molt probable too, that a coriiidrrable part of the
productions of the British territories will find the
molt convenient channel to foreign markets thro'
us ; which, as far ss it regards the interest of ex
ternal commerce, will yield little lefa advantage
than if they proceeded from our own foil or indus
try. It is evident, in particular, that as far as this
shall be the cale, it will prevent a jjrea'. part of the
competition with our commodities which would ex
ill, if thole productions took other routs to foreign
markets.
In considering the fuhjtdx on the fide of a trade
in heme commodities, it is an important refic&ion,
4hat the United States are much more advanced in
lnduftnous improvement, tnah the British territo
ties. This will give us a material and a growing
advantage. While their articles of exchange with
us will eiTentialiy consist in the produftsof agricul
ture and of mines, we-fha!! add to these matiufac
tnres of various and multiplying kinds, feivfne to
incieafe the balance in our favor. • °
In proportion as the article is viewed on /n en-
Urged plan and permanent scale, in :mp*r ance to
us magnifies. Who can fay h«>w far Biitffh colo
nization may fptead southward and down the wc't
fide of the Miflifippi, northward and westward imi>
the rait interior regions towards the Pacific ocean ?
Can wc view it as a matter of indiffe.entv, tharthi*
new world is eventually laid to our tut-nri:'-,
to an anterprife fecondetl by the
already mentioned, of a more improved date of it.-
dultry > Can »« be infctiiible, that-the precedes
furitifhesns with a cogent and perftiafive argusrn.r,
to hring Spain t> a «nvW nrrsn»r. s . t .„ t f ~ j
can we be bi.nU to »!«• , ; *ie«t ;u'.«:reft we have .. 4
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