...find employment in this line, I would not convert them into mariners, artisans, or anything else. ... I consider the class of artificers as the panders...liberties of a country are generally overturned." 17 Even the development of the cotton gin did not change the situation. Instead of resulting in the...

...alongside agriculture. Ours was a nation of farmers, and Thomas Jefferson was not the only American to view "artificers as the panders of vice and the instruments...liberties of a country are generally overturned." But severe postwar depression combined with real, if limited, wartime manufacturing success to create...

...the frequent statements of the beloved Thomas Jefferson, for example, portraying artisans, no less, as "the panders of vice and the instruments by which...the liberties of a country are generally overturned" (cited from his collected papers in Ware 1931, 8). As late as 1845 — just before the influx of the...

...independent, the most virtuous" (Jefferson 1993:351). Artisans, on the other hind, are "the panderers of vice, and the instruments by which the liberties of a country are generally overturned" (p. 351). People who work for wages, who live in cities, who engage in trade and are therefore dependent...

...wish to turn them to sea in preference to manufactures, because comparing the characters of the two classes I find the former the most valuable citizens....vice and the instruments by which the liberties of the country are generally overturned." 1 His neighbors of the Chesapeake were already at sea, and Virginia...

...them to sea in preference to manufactures, because comparing the characters of the two classes I 5° find the former the most valuable citizens. I consider...vice and the instruments by which the liberties of the country are generally overturned."" His neighbors of the Chesapeake were already at sea, and Virginia...

...characters of the two classes I COMMERCIAL SQUIRES AND GOVERNORS find the former the most valuable citi2ens. I consider the class of artificers as the panders...vice and the instruments by which the liberties of the country are generally overturned."1 His neighbors of the Chesapeake were already at sea, and Virginia...

...stability in the republic. "I consider the class of artificers as the panders of vice," wrote Jefferson, "and the instruments by which the liberties of a country are generally overturned." Stability, however, does not pay its own bills, which is why Jefferson's distaste for markets, manufacturing,...

...language to condemn urban artisans and merchants. "I consider the class of artificers as the panderers of vice, and the instruments by which the liberties of a country are generally overturned."1' They contrast unfavorably to the "cultivators of the earth [who] are the most valuable...

...find the former the most valuable citizens. " I consider," he goes on, "the class of artificers as panders of vice, and the instruments by which the liberties of a country are generally overturned1." At this date, then, the Free Trade course seemed to him to be preferable, both on economic...