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cultural labour is double what it is in England, and 

 when the average price of food is not more than half 

 what it is in that country f These two facts, undeniable 

 as they are, are quite sufficient to satisfy any man of 

 sound mind. 



470. As to the manners of the people, they are pre- 

 cisely to my taste : unostentatious and simple. Good 

 sense I find every where, and never affectation. Kind- 

 ness, hospitality and never-failing civility, I have 

 travelled more than four thousand miles about this 

 country ; and I have never met with one single insolent 

 or rude native American. 



471. I trouble myself very little about the party 

 politics of the country.' These contests are the natural 

 offspring of freedom ; and, they tend to perpetuate that 

 which produces them. I look at the people as a whole ; 

 and I love them and feel grateful to them for having 

 given the world a practical proof, that peace, social 

 order, and general happiness can be secured, and best 

 secured, without Monarchs, Dukfs, Counts, Baronets, 

 and Knights. I have no unfriendly feeling towards 

 any Religious Society. 1 wish well to every member 

 of every such Society ; but, I love the Quakers, and 

 feel grateful towards them, for having proved to the 

 world, that all the virtues, public as well as private, 

 flourish most and bring forth the fairest fruits when un- 

 incumbered Avith those noxious weeds, hireling priests. 



THOMAS HULME. 



