...not at liberty to follow. Our people have a decided taste for navigation and commerce." Furthermore, "experience has taught me that manufactures are now...necessary to our independence as to our comfort." Jefferson's two terms as president had made him more empirical in his judgment of commerce, less disposed...

...a figure than the self-proclaimed champion of agrarianism, Thomas Jefferson confessed in 1816 that "experience has taught me that manufactures are now...necessary to our independence as to our comfort." In 1828 Ichabad Lord Skinner, a former Congregational clergyman from Connecticut, published a journal...

...convinced of the value to the nation of manufactures. "Experience has taught me," he wrote in 1816, "that manufactures are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort" (quoted in Peterson, 1967, p. 160). The war encouraged advocates of other large-scale public projects...

...that foreign nation or to be clothed in skins and to live like wild beasts in dens and caverns .... Manufactures are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort." In the domain of manufacturing and industry, Jefferson, as historian Peter Onuf reminds us, was opposed...

...— like his animosity to commerce — was lasting. He would support the protective tariff in 1816: "Experience has taught me that manufactures are now...as necessary to our independence as to our comfort" (Jefferson to Benjamin Austin, Jan. 9, 1816). 28. Jefferson to Benjamin Stoddert, Feb. 18, 1808. 29....

...or to be clothed in skins and to live like wild beasts in dens and caverns. I am not one of those; experience has taught me that manufactures are now...as necessary to our independence as to our comfort. This was one of the first instances of Lincoln invoking Jefferson's name for substantial support on...

...that foreign nation or to be clothed in skins and to live like wild beasts in dens and caverns. . . . Manufactures are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort." Even so, there were limits to Jefferson's tolerance for development and business. There was something...

...or to be clothed in skins, and to live like wild beasts in Jens and caverns. I am not one of the^e; experience has taught me that manufactures are now...as necessary to our independence as to our comfort. * * * Of course, since the date of this letter conditions have greatly changed. It may even be doubted...

...subsequently changed his views on this subject. In 1816, in a letter to Benjamin Austin, of Boston, he writes: "Experience has taught me that manufactures are now...necessary to our independence as to our comfort." «White's Memoir of Slater, 1836. 4 A1903- 30 manufactured cotton yarns, 1 cotton twist, and 7 piece...

...prominent men and women, asking their candid opinion of the matter and an expression of their views : " ' Experience has taught me that manufactures are now...as necessary to our independence as to our comfort ; and if those who quote me as of a different opinion will keep pace with me in purchasing nothing...