subtle with obvious truth � how they reason from assumed premises which being mistaken or lead to false and often absurd conclusions � how they contradict and confound each other and often from adam smith their down to and make which their whole fabric or confess themselves ignorant or in the dark on points the most vital to a correct of the great they s to have reduced to a science yet even adam smith himself e and the the grounds of protection whole system upon an attempt to apply it to the com laws and is but a free by and has never yet answered his own powerful arguments in behalf of protection on the other hand we point you to the long array of mighty names which have illustrated the annals of in modem times � to william and the great of to the whole array of memorable french including napoleon the first of them all to our own washington and to our two to say nothing of the eagle eyed and genial hearted living master spirit of our time the opinions and the arguments of all these are on record it is by to and their counsels that we shall be prepared to walk in the light of experience and look forward to a glorious national destiny my friends i i dare not detain you longer i commit to you the cause of the nation s independence of her and her prosperity guard it wisely and shield it well for it your own happiness and the enduring welfare of your countrymen � clay a day s ride in us three days had glided away and not very idly among th � days bright as italy mountains the still abundant the from the streets the in the beams of the nights were crisp and f ance of lighter in the street with which winter s mantle si surrounding country the ice nearly to fourteen miles ness of and vicinity in its tempting the to travel treacherous surface but on tu several preceding days was gradually of a coming which in the became quite and the roof of the house through t of a moist ride to was not however till tlie stage drew up at the door between six a � � in r tliat the fun of i a day s ride in there were six of lis passengers not forgetting the driver the beat of all whom no obstacle could and no and who protected in part by his rubber over all looked the day s driving wind and driven rain in the face with philosophy the six amused themselves when they could stay in the wagon by turning a part of the water from one to the other by means of four which would have been of some account had not the course of the descending been so greatly from the perpendicular by the sweeping gale and had there not been entirely too much of it even as it was the man in a red flannel shirt and glazed outer garments who occupied the most sheltered position of the and seemed to have been taught by some bird the secret of himself contrived to maintain a comparatively dry look to the end ten miles � mainly of mud � had slid and merrily behind us before we encountered the first formidable still occupying the road over which hundreds of had travelled securely for weeks but into which softened by the rain ours plunged in it the next moment the leaders were down in a tangled pile the off one rolled clear over the nigh one and was and got up on the near side the passengers the ie t having been thrown out rather suddenly as we came to a halt the wagon barely not walked ahead in quest of and shelter perhaps it did n t pour the wheel horses were also taken off and four oxen obtained to draw the wagon out of the drift and on to the changing place not far distant soon all were on board in � all as good as before except that the were wet on both sides and the seat had rather a feeling and we went on merrily as ever � meeting few decided obstacles for the next twelve miles � to the second changing place north so far we had made good time in spite of wind and weather and now said the driver you may expect to see some bad going the testimony was confirmed by others but we did not need their assurance two miles more were got over pretty well one bad place being avoided by letting down the fence and making a through the field but soon we were brought to a dead halt again the horses were in a rather profound drift the wagon was stuck and no resource remained but to beat up the neighborhood for oxen to draw it on while the passengers went ahead in quest of dinner the of the number weighing good two hundred who had already twice taken his own portrait by a flying leap into a snow drift and had received some severe and a hard in the later operation when he narrowly missed breaking a leg in clearing the wagon alone lingered behind to pick up some bits of rides between the worst snow of which i think there were a hundred within that next two yet the wagon was by six oxen got through or around them somehow in a little more than two hours � the horses following behind and coming through with a beaten and sorry look i had no idea it could be done so soon by an hour dinner at in a hurry and all aboard again and to we were enabled to take the rain sitting instead of walking for nearly all the time some had to be walked over of course some snow had 