The Future Wealth of America: Being A Glance At the Resources of the United States and the Commercial and Agricultural Advantages of Cultivating Tea

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Excerpt from The Future Wealth of America: Being a Glance at the Resources of the United States and the Commercial and Agricultural Advantages of Cultivating Tea, Coffee, and Indigo, the Date, Mango, Jack, Leechee, Guava, and Orange Trees, Etc In a country situated as America is, if her people sit down in contentment with the events of yesterday, and with the state of things in times gone by, and will not look forward to the wants of to-morrow, or the future, of themselves and their posterity, adieu to American great ness, adieu to the advancement of civilization within her shores. Plant a tree, dig a well, says the Shaster (a Bible) of the Hindoos, for your children's use; these are among the great works of charity. And in like manner are we bound to look beyond the span of our existence, and bequeath to our successors increasing means of happiness, in keeping with the wants of an unparalleled increasing population. Our predecessors provided for us; so, in like manner, it is our duty to do all we can for the rising generation. Or are we to die and leave no other monument to witness our virtues but that cold and too often lying marble slab erected over our miserable clay?