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costs but a mere trifle. * It consists of a few 

 men, who are absolutely necessary to keep 

 forts from crumbling down, and guns from rot 

 ting with rust. The navy is an object of care, 

 and its support and increase a cause of consi 

 derable expence. But the government, relying 

 on the good sense and valour of a people, who 

 must hate or disregard themselves before they 

 can hate or disregard that which so manifestly 

 promotes their own happiness, has no need to 

 expend much on any species of warlike prepa 

 rations. The government could not stand a 

 week, if it were hated by the people ; nor, in 

 deed, ought it to stand an hour. It has the 

 hearts of the people with it, and, therefore, it 

 need expend nothing in blood-money, or in se 

 cret services of any kind. Hence the cheapness 

 of this government ; hence the small amount of 

 the taxes ; hence the ease and happiness of the 

 People. 



425. Great as the distance between you and 

 me is, my old neighbours, I very often think 

 of you ; and especially when I buy salt, which 

 our neighbour Warner used to sell us for Ws. 

 a bushel, and which I buy here for 2s. 6d. 

 This salt is made, you know, down somewhere 

 by Hambel. This very salt; when brought 

 here from England, has all the charges of 

 freight, insurance, wharfage, storage, to pay. 



