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gree. There is, besides, a class of persons 

 here of a description very peculiar ; namely ; 

 the free negroes. Whatever may have been the 

 motives, which Jed to their emancipation, it is 

 very certain, that it has saddled the white peo 

 ple with a charge. These negroes are a dis 

 orderly, improvident set of beings; and, the 

 paupers, in the country, consist almost wholly 

 of them. Take out the foreigners and the ne 

 groes, and you will find, that the paupers of 

 JVew York do not amount to a hundredth part 

 of those of Liverpool, Bristol, Birmingham, or 

 London, population for population. New York 

 is a sea-port, and the only great sea-port of a 

 large district of country. All the disorderly 

 crowd to it. It teems with emigrants; but, 

 even there, a pauper, who is a white, native 

 American, is a great rarity. 



392. But, do the Borough-villains think, that 

 the word pauper has the same meaning here 

 that it has under their scorpion rod ? A pau 

 per under them means a man that is able and 

 willing to work, and who does work like a 

 horse, and who is so taxed, has so much of 

 his earnings taken from him by them to pay 

 the interest of their Debt and the pensions of 

 themselves and their wives, children, and de 

 pendents, that he is actually starving and faint 

 ing at his work. This is what is meant by a 



