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5033. MANUFACTURES, Independence, prosperity and.—

The risk of hanging
our prosperity on the fluctuating counsels and
caprices of others renders it wise in us to
turn seriously to manufactures, and if Europe
will not let us carry our provisions to
their manufactures, we must endeavor to
bring their manufactures to our provisions.—
To David Humphreys. Ford ed., v, 344.
(Pa., 1791)