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think a convulsion inevitable. Why should such per- 

 sons as I am speaking of fear a convulsion ? Why 

 should they suppose, that they will suffer by a convul- 

 sion ? What have thci/ done to provoke the rage of the 

 blanketteers 1 Do they think that their countrjinen, 

 all but themselves, Avill be transformed into prowling 

 wolves ? This is precisely what the Boroughmongers 

 wish them to believe ; and, !)elieving it, they^ee instead 

 of remaining to assist to keep the people down, as the 

 Boroughmongers wish them to do. 



579. Being here, however, they, as you say, think 

 only of the good they have left behind them, and of 

 the had they find here. This is no fault of theirs : it is 

 the natural course of the human mind ; and this you 

 ought to have known. You yourself acknowledge, 

 that England " icas never so dear to you as it is novo 

 " in recollection : being no longer inider its base oli- 

 " garchy, I can think of my native country and her 

 " noble institutions, apart from her politics." I may 

 ask you, by the way, what 7ioble insfiiutions she has, 

 which are not of a political nature ? Say the oppres- 

 sions of her tyrants, say that you can think of her and 

 love her renown and her famous polifical institutions, 

 apart from those oppressions, and then I go with you 

 with all my heart ; but, so thinking, and so feeling, I 

 cannot say vvith you in your Notes, that England is 

 to me " mailer of history," nor with you, in your Let- 

 ters FKOM THE Illinois, that " where liberty is, there 

 " is 7ny country." 



580. But, leaving this matter, lor the present, if 

 English Farmers must emigrate, why should they en- 

 counter unnecessary difficulties ? Coming from a 

 country like a garden, why should they not stop in 

 another somewhat resembling that which they have lived 

 in before ? Why should they, at an expense amounting 

 to a large part of what they possess, prowl two thousand 

 miles at the hazard of their limbs and lives, take Avomen 

 and children through scenes of hardship and distress 

 not easily described, and that too, to live like gipsies at 

 the end of their journey, for, at least, a year or two, and, 

 as 1 think I shall shoAv, without the smallest chance of 

 their yfna% doing so well as they may do in these 



