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an appeal from themselves to another set, deriving their authority 

 from the same source, and having a similar interest in oppressing 

 you, and thus laying your property prostrate beneath the hoof 

 of an insolent and remorseless tyranny. Free, wholly free, from 

 this tantalizing, this grinding, this odious curse, what need you 

 care about the petty plagues of Domestic Servants ? 



341. However, as there are some men and some women, who 

 can never be at heart s ease, unless they have the power of 

 domineering over somebody or other, and who will rather be 

 slaves themselves than not have it in their power to treat others 

 as slaves, it becomes a man of fortune, proposing to emigrate to 

 America, to consider soberly, whether he, or his wife, be of this 

 taste ; and, if the result of his consideration be in the affirmative, 

 his best way will be to continue to live under the Boroughmongers, 

 or, which I w r ould rather recommend, hang himself at once. 



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