...interim America had discovered that other countries had both profligacy and power enough to exclude us from the field of interchange with other nations:...of life we must fabricate them ourselves. We must place the manufacturer by the side of the agriculturalist. . . . Experience has taught me that manufactures...

...achieving free trade, Jefferson allowed that manufacturing had become necessary to national independence. "We must now place the manufacturer by the side of the agriculturist," he concluded in 1816. Given persistent restrictions on American commerce, those who would oppose domestic...

...manufactures and proved the vulnerability of an agrarian republic such as he had envisioned, Jefferson wrote. "We must now place the manufacturer by the side of the agriculturist." He permitted Austin to publish the letter. It soon became well known as his definitive opinion. Clay...

...experienced what we did not then believe, that there exists both profligacy and power enough to exclude us from the field of interchange with other nations:...the manufacturer by the side of the agriculturist. The former question is suppressed, or rather assumes a new form. Shall we make our own comforts, or...

...in 1785, "we did not then believe, that there exist both profligacy and power enough to exclude us from the field of interchange with other nations:...the manufacturer by the side of the agriculturist." But what about the question he had raised in Query XIX? Did not the immensity of unimproved land in...

...(as a means toward national economic self-reliance). Late in coming to this belief, Jefferson wrote, "We must now place the manufacturer by the side of the agriculturist . . .Experience has taught me that manufactures are now as necessary to our independence as to our...

...experienced what we did not then believe, that there exists both profligacy and power enough to exclude us from the field of interchange with other nations;...the manufacturer by the side of the agriculturist . . . The grand inquiry now is, shall we make our own comforts or go without them at the will of a...

...good or for ill, became the order of the day, as the United States developed a diversified economy. "We must now place the manufacturer by the side of the agriculturist," Jefferson would assert in 1816, in the wake of the War of 1812 and the failure of his embargo. He had...

...6, 1816) in supporting a federal tariff for the promotion of domestic manufacture. Jefferson wrote: To be independent for the comforts of life, we must...must now place the manufacturer by the side of the agriculturalist. The grand inquiry now is, shall we make our own comforts, or go without them at the...

...the agriculturist," he conceded in 1816, acknowledging that industry could not be barred from Eden. "To be independent for the comforts of life we must fabricate them ourselves." Indeed, people who were against domestic manufacturing "must be for reducing us either to dependence...