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Spring,- — all ready to sacrifice their own hap- 

 piness for mine, — into a country like that, 

 and confine them to the greatest slavery that 

 the body can bear, or the mind suppose, ap- 

 pears to me a crime of the most unpardon- 

 able nature. The necessary attention to our 

 cows, &c. is a striking proof. Sucli exer- 

 tions in England, as those I have so re- 

 peatedly enumerated, must enable a man to 

 live, if not thrive; and the climate is more 

 agreeable. When I had traversed the 

 country, the fable of Hercules and the 

 carter occurred to me. There was no way 

 but one ; and that was, to set my shoulder 

 to the wheel, and whip the horses. By so 

 doing, I extricated myself. Any man who 

 goes to America will find it like England in 

 only one thing, that is — the lower kind of 

 people extolling it much: the natives of 

 America particularly boast of their liberty 

 and equality. But those persons who have 

 any thing to do with the cultivation of land, 

 will say as I have written. In Great Bri- 

 tain, the men in general who are riotovfs arQ 



