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"LET THE POOR EUROPEAN MANUFACTURING PEOPLE STAY AT HOME" (INDUSTRY.) Sprague, Hosea. D'Homergue on the Manufacture of Silk. Manuscript, 24 pages (6 of them blank), stitched without cover, wear at corner and dampstaining on title page but entirely legible and mostly clean. Np, 1833
These fragmentary lecture notes are described as "some extracts from the Report of the Committee on Agriculture," location unknown. Most of the notes offer standard background information on silk cultivation, which had been promoted by a French immigrant named John D'Homergue. More interesting is the conclusion, a 2-page rant against not only silk manufacturing, but factories of any kind and the foreigners they attract: "The most worthless part of the European workmen come over to this country to seek for employment in the manufactories here--and our almshouses are filling up with them."
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