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them, and of the bad they find here. This is no 

 fault of theirs: it is the natural course of the 

 human mind ; and this you ought to have 

 known. You yourself acknowledge, that Eng 

 land " was never so dear to you as it is now in 

 " recollection: being no longer under its base 

 " oligarchy, I can think of my native country 

 " and her noble institutions, apart from her poli- 

 " tics." I may ask you, by the way, what noble 

 institutions she has, which are not of apolitical 

 nature? Say the oppressions of her tyrants, say 

 that you can think of her and love her renown 

 and her famous political institutions, apart from 

 those oppressions, and then 1 go with you with 

 all my heart; but, so thinking, and so- feeling, 

 I cannot say with you, in your NOTES, that 

 England is to me " matter of history," nor with 

 you, in your LETTERS FROM THE ILLINOIS, 

 that " where liberty is, there is my country" 



980. But, leaving this matter, for the present, 

 if English Farmers must emigrate, why should 

 they encounter unnecessary difficulties ? Coming 

 from a country like a garden, why should they 

 not stop in another somewhat resembling that 

 which they have lived in before? Why should 

 they, at an expence amounting to a large part of 

 what they possess, prowl two thousand miles 

 at the hazard of their limbs and lives, take wo 

 men and children through scenes of hardship 



