Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

From the HAMPSHIRE HERALD.

To every real friend to his country, the following extract of a letter from a gentleman in the eastern part of this state, to his friend on the western borders of the state, must not only be pleasing, but excite some very useful reflections at the present crisis.

As to curing the evils which our fellow citizens at large now labour under, we need only time, patience and resolution to effect. -- Industry, frugality and oeconomy will set us above these evils, and render our country truly independent. While we will wear the clothes, and use the manufactures of Britain, we can never be an independent people; for so long as we will have their commodities, so long must we work and toil to make remittances, and openly shew to the world, that we are but little better than tributary slaves to that detested nation -- that arrogant selfish people. We ought to prohibit the killing of lambs for some years; we ought to have large sheep-walks, of 1500 or 2000 acres each, and we ought to encourage, by a bounty, the immediate increase of our sheep. No country upon earth is better calculated than our own, for the linen manufactory, and it is a scandal to us, that we import a yard of linen from abroad. Hemp is a native of our country, and we ought to raise sufficient to supply not only ourselves, but some of our sister states, and even the more western parts of Europe. But sitting in our chimney corners for near seven months in the year, and crying, O Lord! sure it is dreadful cold! will never produce either wool, flax or hemp. We have endless resources among us, but industry and enterprize are absolutely necessary to call them forth into view, and into use, for the public benefit. I hope the country towns will instruct their members, and the counties will instruct their senators to adopt, without delay, whatever is necessary for the due regulation of the Lawyers, and of the future practice of the Law; and at the same time further instruct them to attend to our own manufactures already established; and to encourage the introduction of such other manufactures as may be well adapted to our country. No hats, nails, iron, hollow-ware, candles, soap, refined sugar, beer, &c. should be permitted to be imported into this state, on any pretence whatever, unless the same be most clearly the produce of some of our sister states. -- Many other things may strike other persons; and as it is the duty of every individual to assist his country to the utmost of his power, every one should communicate freely to the publick, whatever appears to him probably beneficial to the community.