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It pays besides, one third of its value in duty 

 to the American Government before it be landed 

 here. Then, you will observe, there is the 

 profit of the American Salt Merchant, and then 

 that of the shop-keeper who sells me the salt. 

 And, after all this, I buy that very Hampshire 

 salt for 2s. 6d. a bushel, English measure. 

 What a government, then, must that of the 

 Boroughmongers be ! The salt is a gift of God. 

 It is thrown on the shore. And yet, these ty 

 rants will not suffer us to use it, until we have 

 paid them 15s. a bushel for liberty to use it. 

 They will not suffer us to use the salt, which 

 God has sent us, until we have given them 1 5s. 

 a bushel for them to bestow on themselves, on 

 their families and dependants, in the payment 

 of the interest of the Debt, which they have 

 contracted, and in paying those, whom they 

 hire to shoot at us. Yes; England is a fine 

 country; it is a glorious country; it contains 

 an ingenious, industrious, a brave and warm 

 hearted people; but, it is now disgraced and 

 enslaved : it is trodden down by these tyrants ; 

 and we must free it. We cannot, and we will 

 not die their slaves. 



426. Salt is not the only one of the English 

 articles that we buy cheaper here than in Eng 

 land. Glass, for instance, we buy for half the 

 price that you buy it. The reason is, that you 



