Delaware journal., 1827-12-18

sovereign communities, will grow up in those cxu-
berant portions Of territory, presents considerations
favourable to the main policy lhculcatch. ms
populations carrying with them. the wants ara habi's
of society, will create demand Tor manufacturers
which must, at least for some time, be supplied from
other sources 1t will hence form the natural mar
ket Of purchase and consumption Tor those produced
in other parts of the Union, rather than IN foreign
countries. BY this intercourse we may hope to see
multiplied the commercial and pecunary ties which |
it is Gt should grow up and be cherished Throughout
the whole Federal family, superadding themselves to
all other ties, and harmonzlDg and c0mpactips the
elements of great Empire. Should it still be ap-
pretended by any, that evils will be generated IN
state of society where large manufacturing classes
coexist, with full population, to such minds the
reflection must prove consolatory aud re-assursng'
that. in the Public Lands, a check to these evils
will be at hand for ages to come. This immense
domain besides embodying all the ingredients, ma
teral and moral, of riches and power, throughout a
long vista of the future may therefore also be clung
to- under the varous springs and conjolnt move
merts of our happy political system. as safeguard
against contingent dangers. Its very possession IS
conceived to furnish paramount inducements, under
all views. for quckenng. by fresh legislative cou-
eance, manufacturing labor throughout other parts
of the Union 1t is power to be turned to the ac-
count of manifold and transcendent blessings, ra-
f ther than reposed upon for aggrantllZlng too ex-
clusivey the interest agriculture, fundamental as
that must ever be in the State Agriculture itseli
. would be essentially benefited the price of lands,
/, in all the existing States, would soon become en-
n hanced, well as the produce from them, by a
policy that would, in any wise, tend to render por
l. tons of their present population more stationary
by supplying new and adequate motives to thei'
e becoming so. And it is the laws that have largely
al in effect, throughout long course OF time, superln
III duced dsincnations TO manufacturing labor b.
their overpowerng calls to rural labour in the mod
m of selpg1off the Public Domain, the claim OF furthe
legal protection to the former kind of labour. at thi
ur day. seems to an aspect OF justice no less tina
h. of expediency.
til Finally, the great plans of Internal Improvement
ms wisely in prosecution contemplated, in diife
ia ent portions of the country, will lose much OF the
e object and value, if activity be not impaired to mar
tio ufacturng industry. The increased facilities of COZ
,pt veyancs, which these plans intended to effec
le presuppose, their basis the necessity OF transte
or ring the produce of the country from place to place
the How such transfers will be increased by mutp
me ing the products of manufacturing labor is apparen
be New sources for this kind of labor may be expecte
the to rise up these plans in progress, whether
of bringing to light occult treasures, by atfordln
5ly through improved transportation, the means of u
pu- to those already known. And then, as manufactu
SIS ing enterprise. acting upon greater variety al
or abundance of materials, shall be seen to enlarge
,c- spheres, how much rec procay beneficial "
her not its exchanges become with the produce of 4
,la land It'll this state Of things that will emphatlc
that y bind together the farmer the manufacturer, al
sion the merchant, in one indissoube connection. Tow
me, and villages may be expected to rise up in go
pre time, under such policy, lining the borders Of o
res canals of our natural streams. Scenes of stirr
BAL industry will strike upon the eye, flowing from
ge rous ana snDd'vned LABOR, me aggregate results
nu all which will stand out in the advancing culvati
nds and embellishments of the earh and extended pr
sys- perity and happiness of our People. This is
mi broad policy suited toa nation destined by nan
!. Of gifts, t, reach the height, Of civilization and pow
me Such nation rejects too confined, the couns
the that would limit her to the walks of agriculture
nc commerce, or oi manufactures. slnSiy; seeing u
lda her resources and aPtudes OF all KINDS, confer
raw rer me Warrah' OF pre-em'nencc IN each. Uni
III 'his coplnaoli' we nave Deheid no state en-
tive any other than an imperfect ransitory grean
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