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child or servant the farmer or householder may have fifty acres; the 
lands to be laid out in townships of one hundred thousand acres each, 
or a plot of land twelve miles square. ‘ Are you ambitious?” he says. 
“Come here and be proprietors of lands. Have you any regard for 
your posterity? Bring them to a country where they may be forever 
free and not be subject to the scorn and contumely of the great.” 
The Advertisement at the end of the pamphlet expresses a hope that 
Europeans, panting after the sweets of liberty and independence, will 
flock to New Ireland. “Here are no griping and racking Landlords to 
oppress you; no avaricious Priests to extort from you the tenth of all 
your income and labours, whom you must pay for the liberty to come 
into the world, of being married, of having children (in or out of wed- 
lock) and likewise of leaving the world. . . . Send here the Frugal 
and Industrious; no half Gentlemen with long Pedigrees from Nimrod 
and Cain, nor any who expect to make their fortunes by any other 
methods than the plain beaten paths of honest industry; for idle in- 
dolent people, unwilling to work, ought not to eat, but to live in all 
places miserable. ” 
The pamphlet sets forth in its title page that the scheme is prepared 
by special direction of the people concerned for the consideration of their 
convention when met, and that it is composed by those who are invested 
with a proper authority for that purpose. The opening pages contain 
a long and pious dissertation upon the duty of choosing none but God- 
fearing men as rulers. Then follows a declaration of the “ Rights of the 
Inhabitants of the State of New Ireland.” A very democratic tone 
pervades the declaration. It is divided into fifteen sections. The first 
declares in true Jeffersonian style “That all men are born equally free 
and independent, and have certain inherent and unalienable rights, 
amongst which are Life and Liberty, acquiring, possessing and protect- 
ing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety; and 
consequently slavery is a gross violation of the natural rights of man- 
kind and shall not be tolerated among us. ” 
Next follows “The Constitution and Frame of Government of the 
Free and Independent State of New Ireland.” This is couched in 
grandiloquent terms and states that the promoters “anticipating the 
glorious morning of American Freedom, which will shortly shine upon 
them with a lustre superior to any other spot on the terraqueous globe, 
after consulting with the sagest Politicians of the Age and carefully ex- 
amining the several frames of Government already erected in this new 
Empire, and particularly all the advantages which Divine Revelation 
affords, have drawn up the following Frame of Government for New 
Treland,” etc., ete. 
