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569. ARTISANS, Americans as.—

While
we have land to labor, let us never wish to
see our citizens occupied at a work-bench, or
twirling a distaff. Carpenters, masons, and
smiths, are wanting in husbandry; but for
the general operations of manufacture, let
our workshops remain in Europe.—
Notes on Virginia. Washington ed. viii, 405. Ford ed., iii, 269.
(1782)