Excerpt from Addresses of the Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of National Industry With a capacity to raise cotton 'to supply the whole world, our treasures are lavished in Hindostan to'purchase cotton of inferior quality, which is now manufactured in the United States, to the injury Of our cotton planters. And with skill, talents, water-power, capital, and machi nery to supply our utmost demand for cambrics and mus lins, millions of money are in a similar manner lavished in Hindostan and England, to procure those articles; while tens Of thousands Of our own citizens, capable of furnish ing them, are pining in indigence; their employers ruined; and machinery, that cost millions of dollars, rusting and rotting; and while hundreds of manufacturers, invited to our shores by the excellence of our form of government, are unable to earn a subsistence at their usual trades, and are forced to go to Canada or Nova Scotia, or to return to Europe. About fifty sailed from hence in one vessel a few da 8 since. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.