We buy most of our pottery and all of our
crockcry from Abroad, yet no fact is more
certain than that every variety, almost, of
clav exists in plenty in our limits, even to
the kaolin from which china-ware is man
ufactured. So we import nil the marble
used, from distant points, as also slates,
while deposits of these await only the hand
of industry to make them available. So
v o expend largo sums every year for plas
ter, hydraulic cement, mineral paint, and
other similar necessities, .ho raw material
of which is abundant. Nor is there any
apparent reason, except that capitalists have
not undertaken the work, why all kinds of
agricultural implements, tools, and machin
ery. wooden, and w How ware, wagons and
carriages, leather, and the various articles
into which it is made up; castings, engines,
in short, all that we use of these necessary
articles, may not bo supplied almost entire
ly bv the labor and skill of our own people,
and within the State.
