An eulogy on the Honourable Thomas Russell, Esq : late president of the Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians and Others, in North America ; the Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts ; the Agricultural Society ; the Society for the Advice of Immigrants ; the Boston Chamber of Commerce ; and the National Bank in Boston ; who died at Boston, April 8, 1796 ; delivered, May 4, 1796, before the several societies to which he belonged / by John Warren.

  • John Warren
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MDCCXCVI [1796]
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Credit: An eulogy on the Honourable Thomas Russell, Esq : late president of the Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians and Others, in North America ; the Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts ; the Agricultural Society ; the Society for the Advice of Immigrants ; the Boston Chamber of Commerce ; and the National Bank in Boston ; who died at Boston, April 8, 1796 ; delivered, May 4, 1796, before the several societies to which he belonged / by John Warren. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ »9 ] have pointed out the influence which the adoption of an uniform fyflem of commercial regulations, would have upon the navigation of the United States ; and the ten- dency of the propofed conftitution to increafe our {flip- ping, furnifh a nurfery for feamen, give employment to mechanicks in the article of {hip-building, to thofe engag, ed in the bufinefs of felling timber and tranfporting it to the places affigned, to the hufbandmen, by encreafing the demand for provifions, and the producl of their labour ; and, in fine, in his own terms, to give fuch life and fpirit to commerce as would extend it to all the nations of the world.f Thefe, he faid, were the blemngs which he anticipated from the adoption of the federal con- ftitution ; and, fo convinced was he of its utility, that if the arm which he extended, mould refufe the office of manifefling it, he would cut it off, and calf it from his bod}-. the predictions which he made, have been fo fully verified in the events which have taken place, that I could not wi:hhold the teftimony to his judgment, which this circumftance affords. THE i f- VI ie debate? of the Convention,
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