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them will, before they die, be beggars in their own proper persons 

 and for their own use and behoof ; and thus give a complete 

 rounding to their career ; plunderers in prosperity, and beggars 

 in adversity. 



396. As to the poor-rates, the real poor-rates, you must look to 

 the country. In England the poor-rates equal in amount the rent 

 of the land / Here, I pay, in poor-rates, only seven dollars upon 

 a rent of six hundred ! And I pay rny full share. In short, how 

 is it possible, that there should be paupers to any amount, where 

 the common average wages of a labourer are six dollars a week ; 

 that is to say, twenty-seven shillings sterling, and where the 

 necessaries of life are, upon an average, of half the price that they 

 are in England ? How can a man be a pauper, where he can earn 

 ten pounds of prime hog-meat a day, six days in every week ? 

 I was at a horse-race, where I saw at least five thousand men, and 

 not one man in shabby clothes. 



397. But, some go back after they come from England ; and the 

 Consul at New York has thousands of applications from men 

 who want to go to Canada : and little bands of them go off to that 

 fine country very often. These are said to be disappointed people. 

 Yes, they expected the people at New York to come out in boats, 

 I suppose, carry them on shore, and give up their dinners and beds 

 to them ! If they will work, they will soon find beds and .dinners : 

 if they will not, they ought to have none. What, did they expect 

 to find here the same faces and the same posts and trees that they 

 left behind them ? Such foolish people are not worth notice. 

 The lazy, whether male or female, all hate a government, under 

 which every one enjoys his earnings, and no more. Low, poor 

 and miserable as they may be, their principle is precisely the same 

 as that of Boroughmongers and Priests : namely, to live without 

 labour on the earnings of others. The desire to live thus is almost 

 universal ; but with sluggards, thieves, Boroughmongers, and 

 Priests, it is a principle of action. Ask a Priest why he is a Priest. 

 He will say (for he has vowed it on the Altar !) that he believes 

 himself called by the Holy Ghost to take on him the care of souls. 

 But, put the thing close to him ; push him hard ; and you will 

 find it was the benefice, the money and the tithes, that called him. 

 Ask him what he wanted them for. That he might live, and live, 

 too, without work. Oh ! this work ! It is an old saying, that, if 

 the Devil find a fellow idle, he is sure to set him to work ; a saying 

 the truth of which the Priests seem to have done their utmostfto 

 establish. 



398. Of the goers back was a Mr. ONSLOW WAKEFORD, who was 

 a coach-maker, some years, in Philadelphia, and who, having, 

 from nothing hardly to begin with, made a comfortable fortune, 

 went back about the time that I returned home. I met him, by 

 accident, at Goodwood, in Sussex, in 1814. We talked about 

 America. Said he, &quot; I have often thought of the foolish way, 

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