Identifier: fibriliapractica00alle (find matches)
Title: Fibrilia: a practical and economical substitute for cotton ... Together with a history of the growth and manufacture of wool, cotton, flax, etc., in Europe and America. With illustrations from microscopical examinations
Year: 1861 (1860s)
Authors: Allen, Stephen M. (Stephen Merrill), 1819-1894
Subjects: Textile fibers Textile industry
Publisher: Boston, L. Burnett and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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s of coming peril. Lether protect the laborer, the mechanic, and the farmer intheir own proper calhng, and guard their rights with ajealous care, that their earnings shall not be consumed bymultiplicities in traffic by the non-producing part of her 183 FIBRILIA. communitj, some of whom set themselves up as theirmasters ; and who, if suffered to go on, would so counter-feit jN^ew England products and New England hearts, thatthey would soon be unknown in comparison with the past.She should consohdate her whole people by the indissolu-ble bonds of affection and justice. Then all her elementsof industry will become active, her people happy, and herinstitutions respected by the whole Union and the world.Thrice happy will she then be, and thrice useful in thecause of humanity ! Her benevolence, now so large, willbe practical, and will be the more valuable from the judg-ment and discretion brought to bear in its use.
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