a Bounty } to encourage the Exportation of Corn. 417 
demand, in proportion to the quantity, as 
neceffarily renders it dearer. 
Now, there is hardly any public queftion re- 
fpedting agriculture, manufactures, or com¬ 
merce, but its expedience and ufe may be 
afcertained by fome one, or more, of thefe 
propofitions. 
The queftion before us is of the greateft: 
importance f there is not a Jubjebt in the realm , 
tvhofe intereft: is not affected by it. Nothing can 
be more interefting, than that proper meafures 
fhould be taken reflecting an article, upon which 
the people depend for their daily fubfiftence. It is 
a meafure, however, in which men of good fenfe 
have been deceived and deluded ; by which millions 
have been foolifhly thrown away, to the advan¬ 
tage of our neighbours ; and which, to this hour, 
has its advocates, who contend, not only for its 
continuance, but alfo for its extenfion. But the 
effects of popular prejudice are indeed very 
furprizing.—Let us firft take a curfory view of 
its hiftory, and then try its merit by the fore¬ 
going propofitions. 
Patriotifm, genuine patriotifm, is a word of 
noble fignification. But, a true patriot, one 
who, in all things, at all times, and upon all 
occafions, prefers the good of the community 
to his own private intereft, would be as Angu¬ 
lar a phenomenon in the political world, as a 
Phoenix in the natural. It is an objedt one may 
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