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arrps from the United states. Very few of
the arms received are fit for efficient SER
vice. The common gun smiths OF our coun-
try, with very inferior rep rations and
machinery, make On article much mere eff
%fcient and servicable ti.an the guns rece-
ived from the United States armories where
they should have the best mechanics and
the very best machinery for making them.
Prepared as our arnorles ought tc Be, with
good machinery, good materials, and good
mechanics, an ~interio- gun should never be
distributed. This subject is important, and
merits attention. To send our country men
to war with defective arms, is to send them
ito the slaughter pei. to be butchered.
In two years which has passed since tie
meeting Of the last Legislature. a reascna-
BILE share Of the blessings of a kind Provi.
Idence las been bestowed on our country.
In the first, the crops were generally good:
in the latter they have been more varied,
in some places being superintendent, in
others abundant and in others sl.oit, as tie
rains happened 10 be more or less plentiful
or the drought great; but enough has been
made to supply our wants and much to
spare.
We have a rich soil and a climate adapt
ed to the growth of many products, and with
iproper culture and favorable seasons, the
h~usfandmen reap abundant harvests. Yet
it is a fact, which it is needless TO dis
guise, that, which our rich soil and genial
climate and all our industry, care and econ
omy, we are not a prosperous and thriving
.!people-the great mass Of US are not grow
ing in wealth, nor accommodating many LftEe
comforts or even of the necesSaries of life.
The Causes o%fIthis want of rrosperit, are
various. The mass of us have not yet lcarn-
cd enough. For want gilmore skill end sci
I%ence, and better implements of husbanGry,
VIC do not GUILTY. ate the soil to the best ad-
vantage. The people of some other coun-
inferior soils, than We produce from our rich
lands. We sell orr productions with the
ruGcst preparations for market, and of
course at the lowest prices, while others
pEeparet rem for consumption aid resell to
us, and of course at the highest prices. We
make too much Ct the same articles, or ofthe
same class of articles, aud t!.us reduce the
price by quitting the :aarket and destroy ing
tie Command for our products; while We
make none Of another article, or class of ar
~ticles, equally Necessary TO supply our vents
ard thus we create a market and a demand
for those articles and enhance the prices.
IL XII, way CRY system reduces the price
Of ali that VIC make 10 sell. and enhances
the price of all that we have to buy. AL
most our entire population are engaged in
agriculture, and E05Gy in consequence Of
tins, our corn, wheat, hemp and tobacco
brings us but little wealth, and our beef and
pork, horses and mules. pay but little more
than the bare expenses oiraising them. Tie
tariff flour own ant other countries cripp!eS
our foreign trade in ONE articles, and dos
truyS it In others. What l. intended TO te
our home marke:-our domestic manufac-
t.rcs-rrnves to be no market at all to us,
partly because it is not at home. 1t costs
abort as much 20 send our products to Mas
sach sets as IL docs to send them to Europe:
and, if it cost us nothing, the eastern manu-
factories would always be mainly supplied
by their ncighbors, before our produce col Id
reach them. We not Only MAKE less ter want
of more skill, but many Of us often sell for
less. for want Of more infnrmation; and the
sIrrewd spectators not ~unfrrquently make
more in a few weeks, BY dealing in our TIo-
ducts, than Tie producer makes by the whole
v, ar's lard toll. Another disadvantage UNI
der Which we labor, is Il at we sell almost
ever,t in, We produce at its first and very
lowest pric', and before any Of the profits
oftradt lave been attached 10 it; and that
every thing which we DO not produce, we
buy at it last and very high price, and af-
ter all the profits of trade have been attach
ed to it. Another and Il greater evils, that
ItI,rc are Rainy valuable articles, and nee
eSsart oncs to supply the wants Of life,
Which we 10 not pretend to produce at all,
or else 70 luce but pant ally. Ofthis class
arc the y r GUS manufactured a ticl,s. We
do not nv. il o~urSrlvs Of any of the advan-
tasrs of tie in prove cd ma. hinery of the age
of the labor sa, inc machints rs they are
al t!y cIlicd-oft ii g Iii, ne, milking mach;n-
Is as ticy might he more api rorriately
called. We d, pend on H. ysicHI laLrr, nd