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After all these vexations, there is little or 

 no profit. If a man would live on income 

 from property in towns, which is as certain 

 as similar property in England, he is neces- 

 sitated to employ negroes j which was the 

 case with Colonel Rogers* But if a man, 

 as a farmer, buys land, and expects to raise 

 himself to a higher degree in life than the 

 labourer in England, he will miss his aim : 

 and as to his family, every one must be 

 continually employed in the same way. 

 The produce of the soil will do little more 

 than find clothes and food for the man who 

 cultivates it. 



With respect to the mechanic, he is in the 

 same situation. I knew a master-builder 

 at Baltimore to be so perplexed by his men, 

 at the fall of the year, when he had raised a 

 large building up to a great height, as to be 

 compelled to carry bricks and mortar up to 

 the scaffold himself. He generally had from 

 twenty to fifty men at work, some very 

 good teams of horses, &c. 



The only chance for success which I can 



