s——a territory so vast and advantageously situated, containing objects so grand, so useful, so happily connected in all their parts!
our manufacturers will likewise require the systematic and fostering care of the government. possessing as we do all the raw materials, the fruit of our own soil and industry, we ought not to depend in the degree we have done on supplies from other countries. while we are thus dependent the sudden event of war, unsought and unexpected, can not fail to plunge us into the most serious difficulties it is important, too, that the capital which nourishes our manufacturers should be domestic, as its influence in that case instead of exhausting, as it may do in foreign hands, would be felt advantageously on agriculture and every other branch of industry equally important is it to provide at home a market for our raw materials, as by extending the competition it will enhance the price and protect the cultivator against the casualties incident to foreign markets.
with the indian tribes it is our duty to cultivate friendly relations and to act with kindness and liberality in all our transactions. equally proper is it to persevere in our efforts to extend to them the advantages of civilization.
the great amount of our revenue and the flourishing state of the treasury are a full proof of the competency of the national resources for any emergency, as they are of the willingness of our fellow-citizens to bear the burdens which th
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