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been persisted in by Great Britain They found that the stimulus which England fond [ ly supposed she was administering to he
 own vigor, had only strengthened her foes She had depressed and withered her own re- sources, while she wns animating the ener- gies of her emulous neighbors. She was diverting the blood from her own heart, to pour tide of life into the veins of her ad- versaries. The poisoned chalice offered to others was commended to her own lips. This result is rendered more striking by the fact, that without disturbing causes, 1t would have been hard to rival the manufacturing superiority of England. Her immense wealth, her vast possessions, the thrift and persevc- rance of her people, her advanced knowledge and skill, and the general free spirit that per- vades her institutions, would have enabled her to retain the advantages with which she began. But, falsely ambitious, she has aimed at too much. Naughty and inperious in the conduct of her foreign relations, she has alienatcd her natural allies and best friends
 A system of oyerbearing insolence and selfish exclusiveness, has lost her the noblcst pos sessions < You taxed us,n once said an American 10 the English, you taxed Us into independence. you fought us into a maritime power, and you now enact that we shall be your manufacturers" 4 kindred policy to- wards other nations of the world will ineyi- tably produce the same effect. Let younger nations profit by her example!
 But in the fourth place, the effect of this rivalry is not confined to it's mere commer- cial influence. It spreads itself through the entire legislation and spirit of nations. A feeling of hostility is engendered, that 500 tel or later works itself up into open enmity. At first mere competitors in trade, they be- come in the end, bitter political opponents
 No cause has been more prolific of war than the restraints governments have been aceus- toned to impose on commerce. They have torn asunder the ties that should bind the universal race of man into firm brother i hood. They are part of an odious system of isolation, founded upon the principle that different nations are necessary enemies, and that reciprocal intercourse and exchange are pernicious. Nothing could be further from the truth Nations were not created ene- mics. They are made SO, only by the false and cruel political creods which it has been the interest of crafty statesmen to maintain. Nations are but aggregates of equal human beings. They are collections of individuals, endowed with the same rights, moved by the same motives, destined 10 the same end, with ourselves. They are not dens of reptiles whom we may tranple to the earth, not hordes of outcasts whom We may pillage and burn. not sWarms of miscrcants whom we arc commissioned 10 sweep from the earth. They are men like ourselves, they are fathers, and brothers, and children; they arc interested in all tha! interests ns; partak- CTS of common inheritance; heirs of the same immortality. They must work and eat and sleep, the dire necessity of this hu- man life is laid upon them; the eternal obli- gations of truth and duty are impressed on their hearts the great problem of mans eX- istence is to be solved by them as by us. Are they no more to Us than the brutes that per- ishi Are they beings to be hated,--to be cheated-to be hacked and hewed as bies of wood Have we no friendly feelings, no cordial and kindly sympathies, no heartfelt greeting to extend to themi Must our inter course for ever continue to be the intercourse of proud and antagonlstic powers Such IS the spirit of the restrictive system. IL forfi- fes national preiudices; it increases the oc- casions of conflict; it abjures the civilizing influences of commerce.; 1t surrounds the nations with wall as impenetrable as the wall of China, that the people may yegetate in stupidity, barbar!sm, and selishness.
 None of the consequences of Free Trade have more strongly impressed our minds than it's relations to the moral melioration of society We do not believe that free trade | lra ti, ,lI hot cb be; but it would give il the opportunity to become so, and put it on the way. It would bind diverse interests into solemn league of goodwill. Men seem to have taken 1t for granted, that the diversity which prevails ill the climates and soils of the earth should be reason for diversity of interests among its inhabitants. Because there are different governments, they infer that there should he hostile governments. But such was not the intention of nature. The differences and di- versailles of which we have spoken, are de- signed to enlarge the number of our enjoy ments. The products which contribute to human comfort and improvement, are multi piled by means of it. The luxuriant fruits of the south, the useful ores of the north, the agriculture of one region, and the manu- ldctufc Ol dHOllleT, are fUdue aLtdlldDlS to llle whole race. This is an advantage, howev- CT, which can only be appropriated through free trade. Restraints and prohibitions con- fine all people to their own narrow confines. Free trade makes the wealth of each the con- mon property of all It spreads everywhere whatever the Deity has made for the fruiiion of his creatures. It leads to perpetual inter- change, to an unceasing barter of one thing for another, to a general and ever-grewng feeling of amity. It weaves, through all the notifications of society, so many ties of trade; it binds the mutual dependence of nations so firmly, it connects one with another by so many ligatures, brings them into such neigh borhood, that disruption and war arc render ed morally impossible. Those rancorous feuds, in which millions of property and mil lions of precious lives are lost, could never arise. They would be instant destruction to all parties and should any disagreement a.