their minds new command takes place new servants and new masters their information their wealth their correspondence have made them quite other men than left their native shore t ey are now and by another patent than the king s had been good had broken the power of the kings and had some very good traits of its own but it had grown mischievous it was time for it to die and as they say of dying people all its faults came out trade was the strong man that broke it down and raised a tht young american april new and unknown power in its place it is a new agent in the world and one of great function it is a very intellectual force this physical strength and combination information science in its room it calls out all force of a certain kind that in the former it is now in the midst of its career is not ended yet our still partake largely of that element trade goes to make the insignificant and to bring every kind of faculty of every individual that can in any manner serve any person on sale instead of a huge army and navy and it to convert government into a of intelligence an intelligence where every man may find what he wishes to buy and expose what he has to sell not only produce and but art skill and and moral this is the good and this the evil of trade that it goes to put everything into market talent beauty virtue and man himself by this means however it has done its work it has its faults and will come to an end as the others do we rail at trade and the philosopher and lover of man have much harm to say of it but the historian of the world will see that trade was the principle of liberty that trade planted america and destroyed that it makes peace and keeps peace and it will slavery we complain of the grievous oppression of the poor and of its building up a new aristocracy on the ruins of the aristocracy it destroyed but there is this immense difference that the aristocracy of trade has no is not was the result of toil and talent the result of merit of some kind and is continually falling like the waves of the sea before new claims of the same sort trade is an instrument in the hands of that friendly power which works for us in our own despite we design it thus and thus but it turns out otherwise and better this beneficent tendency without violence exists and works every observation of history a confidence that we shall not go far wrong that things mend that is it that is the moral of all we learn that it hope hope the mother of our part is plainly not to throw ourselves the young american across the track not to block improvement and sit till are stone but to watch the of successive and to with the new works of new days government has been a it should be a plant i conceive that the office of law should be to express and not to the mind of mankind � new thoughts new things trade was one instrument but trade is also but for a time and must give way to somewhat broader and better whose signs are already dawn ing in the sky i pass in the third place to speak of the signs of that which is the of trade it is in consequence of the revolution in the state of society wrought by trade that government in our times is beginning to wear so clumsy and an appearance we have already seen our way to shorter methods the time is full of good signs some of them shall to fruit all this beneficent is a friendly omen and the swelling cry of voices for the education of the people that government has other offices than those of banker and witness the new movements in the civilized world the of france germany and the trades the english league against the corn laws and the whole so called in paris the the of the has begun to make its appearance in the witness too the spectacle of three which have within a very short time sprung up within this beside several others undertaken by citizens of within the territory of other states these proceeded from a variety of motives from an impatience of many in common life from a wish for greater freedom than the manners and opinions of society permitted but in great part from a feeling that the true offices of the state the state had let fall to the ground that in the scramble of parties for the public purse the main duties of government were omitted � the duty to instruct the to supply the poor with work and with good guidance these preferred the agricultural life as the most favorable condition for human culture but they thought that the farm as we manage it did not satisfy vol iv no iv the american the right ambition of man the farmer after sacrificing pleasure taste freedom thought love to bis work turns out often a like the merchant this result might well seem all this from to for all these years to end in and the s flag and removing from bad to worse it is time to have the thing looked into and with a criticism ascertained who is the fool it seemed a great deal v because the farmer is living in the same town with men who pretend to know exactly what he wants or one side is agricultural coolly exposing the nonsense of our and expense of and o� by means of a of artificial to turn a into corn and on the other the farmer not only eager for the information but with 