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the utmost boundary of my adopted country. 

 Every particular part of it is as dear to me as 

 every other particular part. 



867. I have recommended most strenuously 

 the encouraging and promoting of Domestic Ma 

 nufacture; not because I mean to be engaged 

 in any such concern myself; for it is by no 

 means likely that I ever shall ; but, because I 

 think that such encouragement and promotion 

 would be greatly beneficial to America, and 

 because it would provide a happy Asylum for 

 my native oppressed and distressed country 

 men, who have been employed all the days of 

 their lives in manufactures in England, where 

 the principal part of the immense profits of 

 their labour is consumed by the Borough 

 tyrants and their friends, and expended for the 

 vile purpose of perpetuating a system of plun 

 der and despotism at home, and all over the 

 world. 



868. Before I conclude this Introduction, I 

 must observe, that I see with great pain, and 

 with some degree of shame, the behaviour of 

 some persons from England, who appear to 

 think that they give proof of their high breeding 

 by repaying civility, kindness, and hospitality, 

 with reproach and insolence. However, these 

 persons are despised. They produce very little 

 impression here ; and, though the accounts 



