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THE INFORMER, 



No. I. 

 For the Bee. 

 Give unto Casar the things that are Ccesar''s. 

 1 HERE is not to be found in the annals of juris.^. 

 prudence, a juster sentence than that which I have 

 adopted as the motto to this paper. To govern- 

 ment alone, man owes all the blefsings he derives 

 from society ; under its protection he can rest in 

 peace, afsured that he can suifer no material in- 

 jury. To insure to him that tranquillity, many- 

 persons must be continually employed to reprehend 

 and to punifli offenders ; and all these must be 

 paid ; — " "The labourer is worthy of his hire ;" but 

 if money be not provided to pay for that hire, 

 where fliall he find it ? Nothing, therefore, can 

 be more just and expedient, than that the taxes 

 imposed on the people, by an enlightened legisla- 

 ture, ought to be chearfuUy paid : Every one 

 ought to " give unto Cssar the things that be 

 Cnesar's," 



It does not however, follow, tliat all the de- 

 mands of CoEsar ouglit to be implicitly acquiesced 

 in, " The labourer is worthy of his hire'''' only when 

 he is engaged in useful and beneficial employ- 

 ments. It were a great absurdity indeed, to in- 

 sist that every sturdy fellow who fhall be employ- 

 ed to annoy instead of protecting me, should have 

 a t'llc to claim payment for this his destructive 

 labour, Some dlicriminatidn is neccfsary hefote 



