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" That your petitioner has now follow- 

 ed that employment for eight-and-twenty 

 years, and during this time has been en- 

 abled to provide for a wife and large 

 family in a respectable manner. 



" That your petitioner has seen, with 

 considerable dismay, the invention and 

 rapid increase of railroads during the last 

 few years, accomplishing the ruin of hun- 

 dreds in the same employment as your 

 petitioner; and now, by the numerous Bills 

 before your Honourable House, threaten- 

 ing the very livelihood of your petitioner 

 and his numerous family. 



" That your petitioner, not actuated by 

 selfish motives alone, but viewing with deep 

 sympathy the distress, the discontent, the 

 poverty, and the ruin, that has lately, and 

 does now partially, pervade the land, would 

 humbly point out to your Honourable 

 House how much the invention and use of 

 railroads has had to do with their increase. 



"That your petitioner, passing over the 



