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"beings. Instead of the Church-going hell, summoning h?n» 

 to the house of prayer, he will find the Sabbath hailed as 

 a day of luxurious festivity, of noisy mirth, and of vulgar 

 dissipation. Instead of the general diffusion of learning, 

 he will find a chosen few appropriating to themselves all 

 the valued treasures of science ; but their knowledge will 

 be too lofty or too refined to pass current among the pec* 

 pie, and ignorance and darkness will overspread the land. 

 Instead of domestic security, the travelfer will find those 

 homes, where once was enjoyed "" undisturbed sleep with- 

 in unbarred doors," beset by excisemen and gens d'^armes 

 by day, and in the hours of darkness surrounded by the 

 prowlings of the thief, the lurkings of the robber, and the 

 whispers of the assassin. The spy and informer will 

 glide into every retreat, and follow your descendant even 

 among the birches and shrub-oaks that will conceal the 

 neoflected tombstones of his fathers. " Corruption, like 

 a general flood," will desolate the land, and sweep away 

 in its progress all that is peculiar and valuable in our 

 equal laws. Discontent and misery will sit brooding up- 

 on the countenances of the people, who, wearied out with 

 continual changes, and in listening to a succession of dem- 

 agogues, will be prepared to surrender the remnant of their 

 liberties to the iron grasp of a Dictator. Then " farewell, 

 a long farewell" to all New-England's greatness. 



Political economists have generally traced national 

 Tfiealth to three great sources, Agriculture^ Manufactures, 

 and Commerce, These form the parts of that vast cord 

 that encircles and binds together the discordant elements 

 of political society. They are mutually dependent, each 

 upon the other, for the general strength they unitedly af- 

 ford. Essentially injure one of these great interests, and 

 you destroy or weaken the whole. In advocating the 

 cause of the one, therefore, it is not the part of wisdom 

 to manifest any hostility towards the others. We are as- 

 sociated for the promotion o( Agricidture dind Manufac- 

 tures, but not in opposition to Commerce ', because, with- 



