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it; and, for any thing we can tell, in the multitude of causes and. com- 
binations of causes around us, that result never can. oceur. We-at 
least are at a measureless distance from any approach to.it.. Still the 
Economist, and the Committee manifestly have this impression constantly 
before their eyes, and have no hesitation whatever in announcing the 
redundancy in question itself, a proof of the doctrine. We say it is no 
proof atall. The redundancy is the result of nothing, but excess of 
machinery on the one hand, and the over-reachings and. over-graspings 
of private interest on the other. ‘The country is well capable of sustain- 
ing all that breathe upon it, tenfold. The remedies are at home, and 
it is idle to go elsewhere on a wild-goose chase after them. 
__ Not to recur to the actual sources of the circumstances under which 
the pauper labours, and bring them prominently forward, is impossible. 
Public measures and the interests of particular classes, have ruined the 
lower classes. Public measures have relieved the wealthy, to the sacrifice 
of the poor. Particular classes have pursued their accumulating course, 
reckless of consequences, and have, carelessly or ignorantly thrown the 
labourers out of employ, or reduced them to wages, on which they. cannot 
subsist; and now that they return upon them, as we said, in the shape of 
paupers, they must be gotten rid of. They are nothing but. burdens, 
though burdens of their own making. Pack them then out of the country ; 
expose them to the snows of Canada, or the suns of Colombia; dismiss 
them to the Antipodes to herd with convicts, or drive the in the rear 
of the Cape to grapple with savages—no matter, get rid of them at all 
eyents,—but, remember, make them first or last, pay the charges of 
the transport. Now really this last condition is more. intolerable than 
the infliction of exile itself. The least that could haye been expected 
by the degraded victims of power, if they must ‘be transplanted from 
the soil of their birth, was to be freely transported, and to be freely left 
to themselves and their own exertions, unfettered by any obligations to 
repay the expenses, by them unwillingly incurred, of an unwilling and.un- 
deserved banishment. It is altogether atrocious. 
But the expense—the expense will knock the foolish scheme on. the 
head. £20 a-head for Canada, and £40 for Botany Bay, is the very 
lowest rate of transport: and what, without large additions of expense, 
is to become of them, when they arrive? Oh, crops are soon raised— 
not for months at least, and then they may fail, Emigration to new 
lands and distant climates is not for paupers, but for those, who, while 
they have money at command, cannot maintain their rank at-home ; 
who have time to look about them, and choose their station, and wait 
for events. cal 
Any person of common sense may reasonably ask, where is, all the 
provision—the actual food and clothing to come from, till the colonists 
provide for themselves? They will take every thing with them. _ Then 
these things are in existence—they are to be had? To be sure, all are 
living and eating now. Then let. them still live and be fed at home, and 
save the cost/of conveyance. | It will be the cheapest expedient, and in 
oe meanwhile look to the remedies, which are at home, and in your own 
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