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Rh 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. 



A NOTICE OF THE COMMERCIAL PRODUCTIONS PARTICULAR TO THE STATE, AND OF THOSE OBJECTS WHICH THE INHABITANTS ARE OBLIGED TO GET FROM EUROPE AND FROM OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD?

Before the present war we exported, communibus annis, according to the best information I can get, nearly as follows: 
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