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5014. MANUFACTURES, Home.—[further continued] .

If the piracies of France
and England are to be adopted as the law of
nations, or should become their practice, it
will oblige us to manufacture at home all
the material comforts. This may furnish a
reason to check imports until necessary manufactures
are established among us. This offers
the advantage, too, of placing the consumer
of our produce near the producer.—
To William Short. Washington ed. vi, 128.
(M. 1813)