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but of the iron work. When I moved my things 

 from Long Island down to a house and piece of 

 land near New York, just before I came away, 

 there were ten neighbours, some with one and 

 some with two wagons, to do the job for me. 

 If there be any" thing more amiable than this; 

 any thing that bespeaks a better people, I should 

 be glad that some one would describe it. But 

 it is the ease in which the people live that is 

 the great cause of this neighbourly conduct; 

 the exactions of the government are so trifling, 

 the graspings of the miser and the usurer so 

 small comparatively; there are so few idlers to 

 live upon the fruits of the labour of the indus- 

 trious, that, with very few exceptions, every one 

 has something more than he wants ; and to keep 

 a people in this state is the first duty of every 

 government ; its very first duty ; and it ought 

 to be the first aim of every statesman, who never 

 ought to close his eyes in quiet with the know- 

 ledge of the fact, that a considerable part of the 

 people are in want. 



179. If some one, some precious monopolizer, 

 some favoured child of cent, per cent, with his 

 pen behind his ear and his book of interest tables 

 before him, should, rising up from his calculation 

 exclaim, *'What a devil and allof money Cobbett 

 will get by this corn !" some reader of the Regis- 

 ter, who has a memory capable of a test of twenty- 



