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an aspect is presented which promises a more 

 favourable result, than hundreds of speculations 

 annually afloat, through the enterprize of our 

 commercial citizens. 



It is not the planter alone to whom it is avail- 

 able ; the successful merchant who retreats from 

 the toilsome hazards of the commercial lottery, 

 may secure in the cultivation an agreeable occu- 

 pation of his leisure hours. The landholder will 

 find that his acres will be greatly enhanced in 

 value, and attain in the sale a price which no 

 other cultivation would give them. 



These are among the probable advantages pre- 

 sented to us in an individual view of the subject. 

 How does it appear to the patriot and philanthro- 

 pist? Intemperance is the vice of this land. 

 Our hospitals testify it; for drunkenness is fruit- 

 ful of disease. The records of our prisons prove 

 it; for 'tis the leprosy whose offspring is crime; 

 an attainted race, with no inheritance but the poor 

 house, no refuge but the jail. If we can exclude 

 from the social compact the host of poisons, 

 which, in the form of whiskey and rum, and the 

 interminable variety in which the intoxicating 

 liquors assail the infirmity of our nature, the pe- 

 cuniary gain will fade in the calculation before 

 the moral influence. Hundreds of families, 

 whose hard earnings are wasted in vicious excess, 

 will raise their glad hosannas at the change, and 

 unconscious innocence bear witness to the im- 

 provement, which banishes poverty and discord 

 from the dwelling, and restores peace to the 

 borders, and plenty to the habitation. Our 

 workmen will be better husbands, fathers, mem* 



