The New Olive Branch, Or, An Attempt to Establish an Identity of Interest Between Agriculture, Manufactures, and Commerce: And to Prove that a Large Portion of the Manufacturing Industry of this Nation Has Been Sacrificed to Commerce, and that the Commerce Has Suffered by this Policy Nearly as Much as Manufactures

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M. Carey & Son, 1820 - 248 strani
 

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Stran 63 - Not only the wealth, but the independence and security of a country, appear to be materially connected with the prosperity of manufactures. Every nation, with a view to those great objects, ought to endeavor to possess within itself, all the essentials of national supply. These comprise the means of subsistence, / habitation, clothing, and defence.
Stran 54 - I am not one of these; experience has taught me that manufactures are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort...
Stran x - The united voice of the nation attests its accuracy. As there is no recorded example in the history of nations of a reduction of the currency so rapid and so extensive, so but few examples have occurred of distress so general and so severe as that which has been exhibited in the United States.
Stran 54 - We have experienced what we did not then believe, that there exists both profligacy and power enough to exclude us from the field of interchange with other nations: that to be independent for the comforts of life we must fabricate them ourselves. We must now place the manufacturer by the side of the agriculturist.
Stran 64 - Considering a monopoly of the domestic market to its own . manufacturers as the reigning policy of manufacturing nations, a similar policy, on the part of the United States, in every proper instance, is dictated, it might almost be said, by the principles of distributive justice ; certainly, by the duty of endeavoring to secure to their own citizens a reciprocity of advantages.
Stran 234 - Congress fro 2d do. 3d do. 4th do. 5th do. 6th do. 7th do. 8th do. 9th do. 10th do. llth do. 12th do. 13th do. 14th do. 15th do.
Stran 77 - ... there was some excuse, in that France had latterly made a show of concession, to which England, more candid and direct in her negotiations failed to respond. The relations with England were, moreover, complicated by the grievance of impressment. The dominant party carried everything before it, and on the 18th of June, 1812, war was declared against Great Britain. During all this period, when a rupture often seemed imminent, little was done to improve the navy. The last vessels of any size that...
Stran 101 - ... citizens, and look on and see a great branch of industry, of the utmost importance in every community. prostrated under circumstances fatal to all future attempts at revival, without a further effort for relief. We would not magnify the subject which we now present to congress, beyond its just merits, when we state it to be one of the utmost importance to the future interests and welfare of the United States.
Stran 63 - But the uniform appearance of an abundance of specie, as the concomitant of a flourishing state of manufactures, and of the reverse, where they do not prevail, afford a strong presumption of their favorable operation upon the wealth of a country.
Stran 41 - The scarcity of money has become so great, and the difficulty of paying debts has become so common, that riots and combinations have been formed in many places, and the operations of civil government have been suspended.

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