210 on manufactures and agriculture. Dec. 12. 
drunkennefs and debauchery. One person seduces 
another ;—their morals become corrupted, and their 
manners irregular. Persons of this description are, 
of all others, the worst to manage ina state. While 
they enjoy the sunfhine of prosperity, they are riot- 
ous and factious. Ever ready to run into ex- 
tremes, they become the willing tool of every despe- 
rate man who wifhes to raise disturbances in the 
state. A Catiline has only to appear, and he finds 
them ready for his purpose. Such persons are, of 
all others, the most unfit to bear those checks, and re- 
verses of fortune, to which manufacturers must ever 
be subjected. Hence, it happens, that manufacturing 
towns become such fertile nurseries of thefts and 
robberies, and every species of depredations. These 
difsipated persons become a charge on the parifh, or 
they go to the highway or the gallows. 
Such excefses are never experienced in rural situ- 
ations, where men follow the peaceable employment 
of agriculture. Their labour is constant and equal ; 
—they are never overdone, and never idle; — 
their sustenance is equally certain, uniform, and 
moderate ;—they do not afsociate together in such 
numbers, and are by consequence lefs lable to be 
seduced by the contagion of bad example.—Being 
actively employed in the fields during the whole 
week, Sunday becomes a day of rest; and divine 
service is to them a pleasing amusement. Every 
mind that is not corrupted by vicious habits, is fond 
of being informed. On this principle, they become 
interested in the duties of religion, and attentive to 
the discourses of their pastors, In fhort it is 
