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CHAP. XIII. 



PAUPERS. 



389. IT is a subject of great exultation in 

 the hireling newspapers of the Borough-villains, 

 that " poverty and poor-rates have found their 

 " way to America." As to the former it is lite 

 rally true ; for the poverty that is here has, al 

 most the whole of it, come from Europe; but, 

 the means of keeping the poor arise here updn 

 the spot. 



390. Great sums of money are raised in New 

 York, Philadelphia, Boston, and other great 

 sea-ports, for the maintenance of " the poor;' 

 and, the Boroughmongers eagerly catch at the 

 published accounts of this concern, and produce 

 them as proofs, that misery is as great in Ame 

 rica as it is under their iron rod. I will strip 

 them of this pretext in a few minutes. 



391. Let us take New York, for instance. 

 It is notorious that, whatever may be the num 

 ber of persons relieved by poor rates, the greater 

 part of them are Europeans, who have come 

 hither, at different periods and under circum 

 stances of distress, different, of course, in de- 



