ABSTRACT
At all times, and in all places, the intelligence, morality, and activity of the citizens have been regulated by the prosperity of the country; and wealth has increased or diminished according to these conditions; but nowhere have labour, economy, the spirit of invention, and the spirit of industrial enterprise accomplished any thing great, where civil liberty, the institutions and laws, external policy, the internal government, and especially where national unity and power have not lent their support.
