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5085. MARKETS, Home.—[further continued].

The bringing our countrymen
to a sound comparative estimate of
the vast value of internal commerce, and
the disproportionate importance of what is
foreign, is the most salutary effort which can
be made for the prosperity of these States,
which are entirely misled from their true interests
by the infection of English prejudices,
and illicit attachments to English interests
and connections.—
To Dr. Thomas Cooper. Washington ed. vi, 294.
(M. 1814)