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there : I have qo interest there : I have nothing to warp 

 my judgment in favour of those countries : and yet, 1 

 have as httle in the Atlantic States to warp my judg- 

 ment in their favour. I am perfectly impartial in my 

 feelings, and am, therefore, likely to be impartial in my 

 words. My good wishes extend to the utmost boundary 

 of my adopted country. Every particular part of it is 

 as dear to me as every other particular part, 



467. I have recommended most strenuously the en- 

 couraging and promoting of Domestic Mumifacture; 

 not because 1 mean to be engaged in any such concern 

 myself; for it is by no means likely that I ever shall ; 

 but, because I tliink that such encouragement and pro- 

 motion would be greatly beneficial to America, and 

 because it would provide a happy Asylum for my 

 native, oppressed, and distressed countrymen, who have 

 been employed all the days of their lives in manufac- 

 tures in England, where the j)rincipal part of the 

 immense profits of tlieir labour is consumed by the 

 Borough tyrants and their friends, and expended for 

 the vile purpose of perpetuating u system of plunder 

 and despotism at home, and all over the world. 



408, Before I conclude this Introduction, I must 

 obsene, that I see with great pain, and with some de- 

 pjree of shame, the behaviour of some persons from 

 England, Mho appear to think that they give proof of 

 their high breeding by repaying civility, kindness, and 

 hospitalit}, Avith reproach and insolence. HoAvever, 

 these persons are dcxpiscd. They produce very little 

 impression here ; and, though the accounts they send to 

 England, may be believed by some, they will have lit- 

 tle effect on persons of sense and virtue. Truth will 

 make its way ; and it is, thank God, now making its 

 way with great rapidity. 



469. I could mention numerous instances of English- 

 men, coming to this country <\ith hardly a dollar in their 

 pocket, and arriving at a state of ease and plenty and 

 even riches in a few years ; and I explicitly declare, 

 that I have never known or heard of, an instance of 

 one common labourer who, with common industry and 

 economy, did not greatly better his lot. Indeed, how 

 can it otherwise be, when the average wages of agri- 



