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have land to labor then, let us never wish to see our citizens occupied at a
work bench, or twirling a distaff. Carpenters, masons, smiths, are wanting in
husbandry: but, for the general operations of manufacture, let our work-shops
remain in Europe. It is better to carry provisions and materials to workmen
there, than bring them to the provisions and materials, and with them their
manners and principles. The loss by the transportation of commodities across the
Atlantic will be made up in happiness and permanence of government. The mobs of
great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to
the strength of the human body. It is the manners and spirit of a people which
preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats
to the heart of its laws and constitution.
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