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and rope makers he it is who supports the physician, 

 the lawyer, the clergyman, and the legislator he it is 

 who maintains the military and the navy. Two hundred 

 of these friends of society have left these shores to return 

 to the land from which they came. They came here, 

 one solitary hope animating them, that they could earn, 

 by their labor, an honest and humble subsistence. They 

 came, young, active, in the prime of life. Their country 

 had had the expense of supporting them from their child 

 hood ; and when they came to these shores to give their 

 services to the country, they were rejected, because this 

 country will not study its own interests, or will not know 

 them. 



There is a melancholy fact made public by the return 

 of those 200 men. It declares that Americans are in 

 that state, that they cannot find means to employ a few 

 hands on the wide area of 2,810,000,000 of acres of 

 land. 



Here, politicians, is a subject for your consideration, 

 and a lesson for you to cease your political harangues 

 and scribbling, that destroy all sober and useful thought, 

 and lead men to become frenzied enthusiasts, unfit for 

 any good purpose ; harangues and scribbling that banish 

 all national spirit, and sap the foundation of society ; 

 that cause men to devote all their energies, bodily and 

 mentally, to support this or that opinion about the 

 government of interests, which, through their own neglect, 

 are allowed to wither away, and fall in ruins under their 

 feet. 



Consider the lesson the departure of these two hundred 

 laborers reads to you to-day. Oh ! citizens of America, 

 it speaks, in melancholy accents, the sad truths, the 



