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it is not a good; and, of course that property 

 to the amount of five millions a year is very 

 unjustly as well as unwisely bestowed on its 

 clergy. 



437. Nor, let it be said, that the people here 

 are of a better natural disposition than the 

 people of England are. How can it be ? They 

 are, the far greater part of them, the immediate 

 descendants of Englishmen, Irishmen, and 

 Scotsmen. Nay, in the city of New York it is 

 supposed, that a full half of the labour is per 

 formed by natives of Ireland, while men of that 

 Island make a great figure in trade, at the bar, 

 and in all the various pursuits of life. They 

 have their Romish Chapels there in great bril 

 liancy; and they enjoy " Catholic Emancipa- 

 " tion" without any petitioning or any wrang 

 ling. In short, blindfold an Englishman and 

 convey him to New York, unbind his eyes, and 

 he will think himself in an English city. The 

 same sort of streets ; shops precisely the same ; 

 the same beautiful and modest women crowd 

 ing in and out of them ; the same play-houses ; 

 the same men, same dress, same language : he 

 will miss by day only the nobility and the beg 

 gars, and by night only the street- walkers and 

 pickpockets. These are to be found only 

 where there is an established clergy, upheld by 



