Jefferson was an economic idiot and his letter to a even more foolish doctrinaire only underlines it. Neither man had a clue as to how the world economy was developing or the necessity for a strong industrial economy to any nation desiring to become powerful.
Keeping America confined to an agricultural economy would have assured its weakness and likely destruction at the hands of stronger nations. This was always Hamilton's greatest fear and one of the prime reasons he wanted a policy to develop manufacturing to help create a balanced economy. National Security was always his greatest concern and, like most democrats, almost never Jefferson's.
Yeah, right...
The Lousiana Purchase was a catastrophic blunder... </sarcasm>
LOL! Hamilton was such a pathetic free traitor that you're forced to misrepresent Jefferson's position as his!
"The prohibiting duties we lay on all articles of foreign manufacture which prudence requires us to establish at home, with the patriotic determination of every good citizen to use no foreign article which can be made within ourselves without regard to difference of price, secures us against a relapse into foreign dependency."
--Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Say, 1815.