Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1841-05-06

meDt theory 10 come III COlh'St Win AASA /
ing prosperity.
Rhode Island also early gave her attention to
this branch of manufactures. She saw that an
independent nation would not long consent to de-
pend on foreigners for staples OF such general use
and so easily manufactured on our own SOIL, ana
early gave her attention to their encouragement
She is now enjoying the rich fruits of her wise
forecast.
Look arain at Massachusetts, She once man
acled her piant powers in the same way that we
have done but soon learned wisdom, gave free
play to her energies, and IS now gathering IN an
abundant harvest But little over twenty years
ago, the spot where the city OF Lowell now stands
was a lonely wilderness, with little besides the
woodman $ axe to disturb its repose The wa
ters of the charming Merrmac murmured on
midst the solitude of nature unobstructed by hui
man hands, without the tick OF a hammer to throw
an echo from its banks, or the buzz OF spindle to
throw discord upon the music OF its mean
derng waves But under the wise and fostering
! laws of the old Bay State, the wilderness has dis
/ appeared the Merrimac made a minstering
agent to human will, and one of the most beauti-
| full and important cities ofNew England, sudden
/ ly risen upon its banks Lowell ten years ago,
! had about d. 900 inhabitants. She now has about
81 900 inhabitants in the enjoyment OF as much
happiness, as falls to the lot OF any portion OF the
human family. Is that policy to be Stunned, to
be looked upon with jealousy and fear, that has
caused such beautiful and life-lke creations to
spring up, as it were by enchantment, from the
DESERT giving employment and comfort to thou
sands, who might, otherwise, be idle and desti-
tute. That policy that forces every noisy brook
to lend its aid in strenthening the arm, and for
warding the plans of man. That policy that is
pouring wealth from all quarters of the globe in
! to the lap of Massachusetts, and making almost
every State in the Union tributary to her. Our
citizens constantly making large cash pay
msnts to Massachusetts, for articles which can
and ought TO be manufactured in own State ;
and the only way for Maine to throw off this vas
saiage, is for those who are here, directing her
destiny, to establish snch an enlightened policy
not to drive capital out of the State, but to
courage it to remain with us, join hands with
industry, and travel on tremendously together.
1t is not 10 be disguised, continued Mr.. NJ. that
Maine, with all her mineral and furest wealth, is far
in the of most Of the free States in such meas
ures as tend 10 cherish domestic industry, bring to
light our hidden wealth, and give more wide spread
aud substantial prosperity to our State What is 10
be ultimate destiny9 Through what channels
il willing labor TO seek its just reward? ques-
tons worthy of being considered here. fl portion
OF our enterprising citizens the sea board,
gaged in Transporting the productions Of other lands.
1 he fishing business gives employment to another
portion. But, aside from agricnt ure, forests
have always been looked to AS The great source of
wealth and the manufacture and expectation of
lumber the principal branch Of business that
To give employment to labor. But this mine of
wealth has no permanent durability. The time is
not very far distant when i'll to yield its
Increase Our rich forests fast disappearing
Already The lumberman is driven back to the sources
Of our great rivers, and The streams that empty into
our interior lakes to obtain his annual supply We
must iheie fore, soon look for falling off in this
branch of trade. Let US then exeIC se wise fore
cast and prepare for the change that must inevitably
oyertake US, by setting free those channels Of trade
which have been 80 long licked M.
DO gentlemen expect said he, by their
contracted policy, 10 force citizens into agricu
tura pursuits, and Thus endeavor 10 make us, almost
exclusively, an agricultural people, II so, they
ulust remember that we live in high northern ati-
tude-n legion of frosts-that plains are
whened with snow, and streams bound mp
with ice nearly half the year. They must rcmem-
Der thai, although many of the productions Of The
earth can be raised here in abundance yet the toll
of the husbandman is far more iaborous than il is
in the fertile west, and that citizens frequent
ly seen leaving. what they cal this sterile SOIL and
vending their way 10 more genial chimes. He hoped
wiser councils would prevail and that the unreason-
able. and absurd Jealousy which had for some years
past been cherished against associated wealth, would
give place to more enlarged and patriotic views Of
human progress.
His friend from Limerick he said, Ind cautioned
the House against being bhed by foreign capitalists
lie at some loss to know how to deal with such
nm idea, for he could hardly tell whether the gentle
man was in earnest or ndu cling himself in n few of
the clap-traps of the day. But to suppose him sin
cere, be would say the caution was entirely uAneces-
sary-ihe difficulty was in the opposite extreme We
have been so long accustomed to bearing denuncin-
tlons poured out upon wealth in all its forms espec-
inly corp orate wealth, that there fear Of its in
-huence becoming potent here, No! of whatever
else we may complain, it cannot be that the Legs-
ators of Maine have been too lenlent towards that
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