Congress have repeatedly, and not without success, directed their attention to the 'encouragement of manufactures. The object is of too much consequence not to ‘insure a continuance of their efforts in every way which shall appear eligible.”
"We must now place the manufacturer by the side of the agriculturalist.” THOMAS JEFFerson.
‘There is no subject that can enter with greater force and merit into the deliberations of Congress than a consideration of the means to preserve and promote the manu'factures which have sprung into existence, and attained an unparalleled maturity in "the United States."
"We should become a little more Americanized, and, instead of feeding paupers and laborers of Europe, feed our own." ANDREW JACKSON.