ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE 



opened for induftry, and ftrangers will refort to your 

 infant towns, from all parts of the kingdom ; a 

 complete revolution will pervade the whole High* 

 lands, to the aftonifhment of the old and the young, 

 all of whom will find employment adapted to their 

 age, capacity, and abilities. But while your con- 

 dition will be thus mended, and your wants fupplied 

 in all things requifite for human cxiflence, dangers 

 of a ferious nature are to be apprehended, and 

 guarded againft. When the trading world (hall break 

 in upon you with all its vicious habits, and when you 

 fhall begin to affimilate with that world, it will be 

 difficult to rcfift the force of example, and the al- 

 luring temptations that will appear in a thoufand 

 different forms, all of them tending to eradicate your 

 native virtues, and to lubftitute inftead thereof the 

 long train of vices which degrade human nature, 

 and are fooner or later their own punifhment. Vice 

 admits of two diftindtions, very different from each 

 other in their effefts upon fociety ; viz. Thofe of 

 the fenfes, and thofe of the heart. The firft are 

 natural or conflitutional vices, operating more or 

 lefs upon the whole human race, and therefore the 

 life of every confciemious perfon is a continued 

 ftruggle between reafon and the paflions. From 

 perfons of this defcription, you have little to fear in 

 focial intercourfe. You will generally find them fair 

 and open in their dealings, fmcere in their profef- 

 fions, and warm in their friendfhips. 



Very different are thofe whofe crimes flow from 

 the heart; as envy, malignity, double dealing, hy- 

 pocrify, cruelty, boundlefs ambition, and infatiable 

 avarice. Thefe arc the perfons who difturb the 

 peace of individuals, of families, and communities; 

 who overthrow empires, deftroy millions, and keep 

 the world in continual fermentation. 



Such, you may be affured, will be the imports, as 

 foon as your fhores fhall hold forth inducements for 

 the refort of ftrangers* The thoughtlefs being, who is 



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