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¬which should be so regulated as to ensure im- portation, without enabling it to overpower the agriculture of your own country. ¬" It would be speaking at random to be more particular in concerns so new to me, but the principle is universal. Importations of natural productions may occasionally be politic, because manufactures are often taken in return ; but advantages may be purchased too dearly, and no price can be more ruinous than when foreign harvests have an injurious interference with the natural productions of any nation. ¬" To avoid this evil, affecting alike manufac- tures and agriculture, protecting duties have been constantly resorted to by all governments, and I cannot even conceive the danger of adopt- ing them upon the present occasion, nor the difficulty of settling their amounts. — After fixing a proper standard, you might then keep up your present warehousing system, that you might always have a supply ; securing to the ¬n 3 importer ¬
