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5013. MANUFACTURES, Home.—[further continued].

I have not formerly been an advocate for great manufactories. I
doubted whether our labor, employed in agriculture,
and aided by the spontaneous ener
gies of the earth, would not procure us more
than we could make ourselves of other necessaries.
But other considerations entering into
the question, have settled my doubts.—
To John Melish. Washington ed. vi, 94. Ford ed., ix, 373.
(M. Jan. 1813)