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fine freehold domain at the end! There are the 

 giants and the enchanters to encounter; the 

 slashings and the rib-roastings to undergo; but 

 then, there is, at last, the lovely languishing 

 damsel to repay the adventurer. 



972. The whole of your writings relative to 

 your undertaking, address themselves directly 

 to English Farmers, who have property to the 

 amount of two or three thousand pounds, or 

 upwards. Persons of this description are, not 

 by your express words, but by the natural ten 

 dency of your writings, invited, nay, strongly 

 invited, to emigrate with their property to the 

 Illinois Territory. Many have already acted 

 upon the invitation. Many others are about to 

 follow them. I am convinced, that their doing 

 this is unwise, and greatly injurious, not only 

 to them, but to the character of America as a 

 country to emigrate to, and, as 1 have, in the 

 first Part of this work, promised to give, as far 

 as I am able, a true account of America, it is 

 my duty to state the reasons on which this con 

 viction is founded ; and, I address the statement 

 to you, in order, that, if you find it erroneous, 

 you may, in the like public manner, show 

 wherein I have committed error. 



973. We are speaking, my dear Sir, of Eng 

 lish Farmers possessing each two or three 

 thousand pounds sterling. And, before we 



