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5044. MANUFACTURES, Rooted.—[continued].

We owe to the past follies
and wrongs of the British the incalculable advantage of being made independent of them
for every material manufacture. These have
taken such root in our private families especially,
that nothing now can ever extirpate
them.—
To W. H. Crawford. Washington ed. vi, 420. Ford ed., ix, 504.
(M. Feb. 1815)