( '48 ) 



be the mod effe&ual and rapid means to have 

 as much as poflible one national fyftem, I 

 could think of no fcheme that would anfwer 

 the end fo much as this, and make fuch ra- 

 pid progrefs. 



Only let any perfon, before he draw a 

 conclufion, confider what the good effects 

 would be y if fuch a plan was adopted, and 

 lay in the balance any fuppofed hardfhips the 

 farmer would fufFer. 



It will give me great pleafure to fee a bet- 

 ter plan adopted, either by government, or 

 by noblemen, gentlemen, and farmers unit- 

 ing in one. I do not mean to be tenacious 

 as to this plan, but only to give hints that 

 others may improve upon them. 



It has been objected, that it is not confti- 

 tutional to tax the farmer's labour. I do not 

 fee any force in this objection. Is not the 

 produce of the land taxed, in the land and 

 malt taxes, in the duties upon leather, foap, 

 candles, ftarch, beer, fpirits, Sec. &c. ? What 

 injuftice then is there, in taxing, a farmer ; 

 and efpecially, when this tax is to promote 

 his own intereft ? 



If the farmer is doing evident hurt to him- 

 felf and the nation, it is doing him and the 



nation 



