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in the counU'y, consist almost wholly of them. Take out 

 the foreigners and ihe negroes, and you will find, that 

 the paupers of New York do not amount to a hundredth 

 part of those of Liverpool, Bristol, Birmingham, or 

 London, population for population. New York is a 

 sea-port, and the only great sea-port of a large district 

 of country. All the disorderly crowd to it. It teems 

 with emigrants ; but, even there, a pauper, who is a 

 white, native American, is a great rarity. 



392. But, do the Borough-villains think, that the word 

 pauper has the same meaning here that it has under 

 their scorpion rod! A pauper under them means a 

 man that is able and willing to w;orA, and who does work 

 like a horse ; and who is so taxed, has so much of his 

 earnings taken from him hy them to pay the interest of 

 their Debt and the pensions of themselves and their 

 wives, children, and dependents, that he is actually 

 starving and fainting at his work. This is what is meant 

 by a pauper in England. But, at New York, a pauper 

 is, generally, a man who is unable, or which is more 

 frequently the case, unwilling to work ; who is become 

 debilitated from a vicious lilie ; or, who, like Borough- 

 mongers and Priests, finds it more pleasant to live upon 

 the labour of others than upon his own labour. A pau- 

 per in England is fed upon bones, garbage, refuse meat, 

 and " substitutes for bread." A pauper here expects, 

 and has, as much flesh, fish and bread and cake as he 

 can devour. How gladly would many a little trades- 

 man, or even . *le farmer, in England, exchange his 

 diet for that of a New York pauper ! 



393. Where there are such paupers as those in Eng- 

 land, there are beggars; because, when they find, that 

 they are nearly starved in the former character, they 

 will try the latter in spite of all the vagrant acts that 

 any hell-born Funding system can engender. And, 

 who ever saw a beggar in America ? "I have !" ex- 

 claims some spy of the Boroughmongers, who hopes to 

 become a Boroughmonger himself And so have I too. 

 I have seen a couple since I have been on this Island ; 

 and of them I will speak presently. But there are 

 diffferent sorts of beggars too as well as of paupers. In 

 SJngland a beggar is n poor erefttufej with hairdly rag« 



