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| D. "a steady adherence to the Union" necessary to secure all the commercial advantages which America possesses, | No. XI. | 67 |
| E. the effects of disunion on the commerce of America, | 68 | |
| a. the rivalship of the different parts would frustrate all their natural advantages for promoting commerce, | 68 | |
| b. it would become "a prey to the wanton intermeddling of all nations who are at war with each other," | 68 | |
| a. neutrality is respected only when it can be adequately defended, | 68 | |
| c. it would produce "little arts of little politicians to control or vary the irresistible course of nature" in the growth of our commerce, | 68 | |
| d. it would invite foreign nations to interfere with our rights, | 68 | |
| a. by prescribing the conditions of our political existence, | 68 | |
| b. by embarrassing our commerce, | 68 | |
| c. by interfering with the commercial rights of the Union, which had been then acquired, | 69 | |
| A. in the fisheries, | 69 | |
| a. the importance of the fisheries to France and Britain, | 69 | |
| b. our "decided mastery" therein, a subject of importance to those powers, | 69 | |
| c. their importance to all the commercial States, | 69 | |
| i. in affording a field for their enterprise, | 69 | |
| ii. in affording a nursery for the mercantile marine, | 69 | |
| d. their importance in promoting the establishment of a Fœderal navy, | 70 | |
| B. in the navigation of the western lakes, | 69 | |
| C. in the navigation of the Mississippi River, | 69 | |
| a. the jealousy of Spain on that subject, | 69 | |
| 6. in promoting the establishment of a Fœderal navy, | 70 | |
| A. such a navy would be mutually advantageous to all the States, | 70 | |
| 7. in their commercial relations with the Peoples of other States, | 70 | |
| A. it would promote the interchange of their respective productions, | 70 | |
| B. "the veins of commerce would be replenished" and invigorated, | 70 | |
| C. a greater variety would be afforded to the commerce of the country, | 71 | |
| D. the aggregate balance of trade would be increased, in favor of America, | 71 | |
| E. objection, concerning the necessary course of inter-State commerce, in any event, answered, | 71 | |
| F. the assumed superiority of Europe referred to, and Americans appealed to to disprove it, | 71 | |
| 8. in respect to revenue, | XII. | 73 |
| A. commerce the most productive source of national wealth, | 73 |
