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draw the nails of the vile Boroughmongers. 

 But, he has to labour against the inveterate 

 effects of the thing the most difficult of all 

 others to move habit. 



959. By what 1 have been able to observe of 

 this part of the country, those who expect to 

 find what is generally understood by society, 

 pretty much the same that they have been ac 

 customed to it on the Atlantic side, or in Eng 

 land, will not be totally disappointed. It is 

 here upon the basis of the same manners and 

 customs as in the oldest settled districts, and it 

 there differs from what it is in England, and 

 here from what it is there, only according to 

 circumstances. Few of the social amusements 

 that are practicable at present, are scarce; 

 dancing, the most rational for every reason, is 

 the most common ; and, in an assemblage for 

 this purpose, composed of the farmers' daugh 

 ters and sons from 20 miles round, an English 

 man (particularly if a young one) might very 

 well think his travels to be all a dream, and that 

 he was still in a Boroughmonger country. Al 

 most always the same tunes and dances, same 

 manners, same dress. Ah, it is that same 

 dress which is the great evil ! It may be a very 

 prejtty sight, but, to see the dollars thus danced 

 out of the country into the hands of the Bo 

 roughmongers, to the tune of national airs, is a 



