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is a fine country ; it is a glorious country ; it contains 

 an ingenious, industrious, a brave and warm-hearted 

 people ; but, it is now disgraced and enslaved : it is 

 trodden do^m by these tyrants ; and we must free it. 

 We cannot, and we will not die their slaves. 



420. Salt is not the only one of the English articles 

 that we buy cheaper here than in England. Glass, 

 for instance, we buy for half the price that you buy it. 

 The reason is, that you are compelled to pay a heavy 

 icuv, which is not paid by us lor that same glass. It 

 is the same as to almost every thing that comes from 

 England. You are compelled to pay the Borough- 

 mongers a heavy tax on your candles and soap. You 

 dare not make candles and soap, though you have the 

 fat and the ashes in abundance. If you attempt to do 

 this, you are taken up and imprisoned ; and, if you 

 resist, soldiers are brought to shoot you. Thisis^rec- 

 dom, is it ? Now, we here, make our own candles and 

 soap. Farmers sometimes sell soap and candles ; but 

 they never bvy any. A labouring man, or a mechanic, 

 buys a sheep now and then. Three or four days* 

 work will buy a labourer a sheep to weigh sixty 

 pounds, Mith seven or eight pounds of loose fat. The 

 meat keeps very Avell, in Avinter, for a long time. The 

 wool makes stockings. And the loose fat is made into 

 candles and soap. The year before I left Hampshire, 

 a poor woman at Holly Hill had dipped some rushet 

 in grease to use instead of candles. An Exciseman 

 found it out ; went and ransacked her house ; and told 

 her, that, if the rushes had had another dip, they 

 would have been candles, and she must have gone to 

 jail ! Why, my friends, if such a thing were told here, 

 nobody would believe it. The Americans could not 

 bring their minds to believe, that Englishmen would 

 submit to such atrocious, such degrading tyranny. 



427. I have had living with me an Englishman, 

 who smokes tobacco ; and he tell me, that he can buy 

 as much tobacco here for throe cents: that is, about 

 three English half-pence, as he could buy in England 

 tor three shillings. The leather has 7io tax on it here; 

 so that, though the shoe-maker is paid a high price 

 for htfi labour, the labouring man gets his shoes verr 



