{"newspaper_name": "Holly Springs gazette.", "edition": "01", "page": "p2", "byline": ""}
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The past year has been characterized ed by
more numerous, and more extensive conf1a.
gratlons than any other period in the histo
ry oil our country; attending most OF them
there is striking peculiarly characteris
TIC of no other period. namely. the ex,en, to
which the manufacturing interests of,he
country have been involved in these sad ca,
lamities. Numbers of fires have either orr
iginated in the factories themselves, or in
such proximity. that their destruction was
inevitable. To account for such singular
fatality resting on our manufactures, is inns
possible unless we admit the plausible con-
lecture, that foreign incendiaries are sent
into our midst to break down, an inieres,
which, more than any other. has tenden.
| cy to make us independent at home, and
admit us on an equal footing abroad with
the greatest commercial nation ofthe world
Goblet long since suggested the idea 10
some English lords. that the only way to
prevent Americans from becoming a man
,ufacturing people, was to burn fheir faete-
ries as soon as established, for which sup
gestion he was declared to deserve a statue
Of gold. Look well to your interests, you
who wonld tamper with foreign influence
for the sake of few votes, that you MAJ
not nurse viper, that will turn and sting
you.