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There is, in short, scarce a single instance in history of the contrary, where manufactures have once taken firm root.
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gutenberg.orgBenjamin Franklin: “There is, in short, scarce a single instance in history of the contrary, where manufactures have once taken firm root.”
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Franklin asserts that once established, manufacturing rarely disappears without major upheaval.
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It is upon this fact I found the propriety of the measure of settling a barrier colony in those parts of our frontiers, which are not the immediate residence or hunting-grounds of our Indians.
Our legal method of compulsion is by imprisonment: the Indians cannot and will not imprison one another; and if we attempt to imprison them, I apprehend it would be generally disliked by the nations, and occasion breaches.
Many quarrels and wars have arisen between the colonies and Indian nations, through the bad conduct of traders, who cheat the Indians after making them drunk, &c. to the great expence of the colonies both in blood and treasure.
But above all this, the state and circumstances of our settlements render such a measure not only proper and eligible, but absolutely necessary.
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