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Harrison, William Henry (1773-1841) to Mathew Carey

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01803 Author/Creator: Harrison, William Henry (1773-1841) Place Written: Columbus, Ohio Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 27 December 1819 Pagination: 2 p. ; 25 x 19 cm. Order a Copy

Encloses (not present) a joint resolution of the Agricultural & Manufacturing Society indicating the course the Society wishes Congress to follow. Addressed at bottom of second page to Carey as the President of the Society for the Encouragement of Manufactures.

Columbus O 27th Dec. 1819
Rev. Jan. 9th
Ans. 10th
Dear Sir
I received before I left home several communications from the society for the Encouragement of Manufacture which has been organized in your city. Amongst them were some copies of a printed memorial with a request to have them circulated for signature. I did not pursue the course recommended because the Agricultural & Manufacturing Society of Cincinnati had previously proposed and circulated memorials of similar import and having about that period been elected to a seat in the State Senate I determined to exert myself to obtain an expression of sentiment favorable to the important object we have in view by the Legislature. I have the pleasure to enclose you the result, in the shape of Joint Resolution indicating the coarse which we wish Congress to propose. I should be wanting in Candour not to acknowledge that I have been converted to my present principles in favor of manufacture by the Luminous views upon this Subject which have been published by your society.
I am with great respect
yr. Hum[ble] Servt.
W.H. Harrison
M. Carey Esq.
President of the Society for the encouragement of Manufactures-Philadelphia

Harrison, William Henry, 1773-1841
Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839

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