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It is important that the emigrant fully understand this 

 general idea, and we will illustrate it as follows: 



We will suppose that thirty men wish to join their 

 means and their knowledge together, to accomplish a 

 certain end : to open a coal mine, for instance. Each of 

 these men, we will say, has a family of children, a wife 

 and servants. 



They meet together, to lay plans to open and work the 

 coal mine. It becomes necessary, of course, that they 

 should have some written agreement among themselves, 

 so as to know what each man's duty is, and what share 

 of the profits and losses is to fall to each. It is very evi- 

 dent that, without such an understanding at the outset, 

 great trouble might arise, and the rights of the weaker 

 be trampled upon by the stronger. 



It is also evident, that this written agreement should 

 only refer to the interests of the particular business the 

 thirty men are entering upon namely, the opening of 

 the coal mine. Their other business, whatever it might 

 be, would not be included in the provisions of this coal 

 mining agreement ; nor would the education of their 

 children, the management of their families, or anything 

 except that which had a clear connection with the interests 

 of mining. 



Suppose that, after a while, some one of the thirty should 

 propose to interfere in the private affairs of another of the 

 thirty, and should propose to the company that they take 

 a vote on the subject. What would be the course of the 

 man whose private matters were thus interfered with 1 To 

 tell the company to look at the written articles of agreement, 

 and see if that gave them any right thus to interfere. This 

 would settle the matter at once. Thus it is with the sev- 

 eral States of the Union. 



The thirteen original States, having certain important 

 objects of mutual interest to secure, such as defending the 



