5083. MARKETS, Home.—
There can be no question, in a mind truly American,
whether it is best to send our citizens and
property into certain captivity, and then
wage war for their recovery, or to keep them
at home, and to turn seriously to that policy
which plants the manufacturer and the husbandman
side by side, and establishes at the
door of every one that exchange of mutual
labors and comforts, which we have hitherto
sought in distant regions, and under perpetual
risk of broils with them.
—R. to A. N. Y. Tammany Society. Washington ed. viii, 127.
(Feb. 1808)
