Ms. K's List: Unit 1: New Nation

• and particularly to the means of promoting such as will tend to render the United States independent of foreign nations for military and other essential supplies;
• The expediency of encouraging manufactures in the United States, which was not long since deemed very questionable, appears at this time to be pretty generally admitted. The embarrassments which have obstructed the progress of our external trade, have led to serious reflections on the necessity of enlarging the sphere of our domestic commerce.
•         Besides this advantage of occasional employment to classes having different occupations, there is another, of a nature allied to it, and of a similar tendency. This is the employment of persons who would other wise be idle, and in many cases a burthen on the community, either from the bias of temper, habit, infirmity of body, or some other cause, indisposing or disqualifying them for the toils of the country. It is worthy of particular remark that, in general, women and children are rendered more useful, and the latter more early useful, by manufacturing establishments, than they would otherwise be. Of the number of persons employed in the cotton manufactories of Great Britain, it is computed that four sevenths nearly are women and children, of whom the greatest proportion are children, and many of them of a tender age.
• that it is the interest of the United States to open every possible avenue to emigration from abroad,

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• Use the section that is highlighted to answer question 4. - Ms. K on 2008-07-08

• Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God,

• While we 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.

   

   

• To enter into such a compromise with her, as she suggested  to you, is totally inadmissable, for reasons that must strike at  first view: for however well disposed I might be to a gradual abolition,  or even to an entire emancipation of that description of People (if the  latter was in itself practicable at this moment) it would neither be  politic or just to reward unfaithfulness with a premature  preference; and thereby discontent before hand the minds of all her  fellow-servants who by their steady attachments are far more deserving  than herself of favor. 

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