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tributary branches from opulent towns and manufactories on each respective line of railroad. I venture to recommend these on public grounds only, no private party feelings or private interest should intervene or impede such important national designs.
When such extensive designs shall have been completed, the landowner, farmer, grazier, trader, manufacturer, and merchant will vie with each other, in the lasting benefit, splendour, and glory which such expanded views of science will send forth to the productive classes and the consumers of the production of the earth.
Extensive tracks of excellent land on each respective line of railroad will be brought into cultivation. The agricultural labourer and artisan will be called from the workhouse and prison to permanent and profitable labour; while the produce of the loom and the manufacturer will be called into extensive demand by the additional consumption that prosperity would give. Among the advantages that these railroads would give is the extension of agriculture; more than a million of acres of productive land would be brought into the foreground, and cultivated, through which the projected railroads would pass. Husbandry and labour would be extended; and the home growth of grain may be progressively made equal to home consumption ; whereby the four or five millions per year, now expended in the purchase of foreign grain, may be expended in manual labour and cultivation at home.
These railroads would contribute towards the poor and county rates most essentially in every parish and county throughout which they pass; while manual labour would be extended to the advantage of all;
