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people of the place to subsist so much on stale vegetables brought 

 from a distance. A little enterprise, a little fellow-feeling, a true 

 principle of morals applied to trade, would soon make your 

 ground about here as rich and profitable as that near other 

 large towns, and your pockets would not suffer from the 

 change, whilst the whole population would be benefited. 



It is as morally wrong and as unpatriotic for farmers to 

 neglect to bring up their farms to their capabilities, to increase 

 their productions, to avail themselves of all the devices of 

 science, and to keep the prices of the necessaries of life as 

 low as possible, as it is for traders to combine and monopolize 

 any one or more articles in constant use by the bulk of man- 

 kind for a temporary profit. We have yet to learn to apply the 

 great principle of morality to every condition of life. The old 

 doctrine was to do unto others as they did to us. The new and 

 better doctrine is to do unto men as we umnt them to do to us. 

 This is the only doctrine of a citizen. It is peculiarly applicable 

 to us as members of a free community. We are no serfs to any 

 governor whatever. We, the people, are the rulers, and it 

 becomes us to remember as well our bonds of citizenship as 

 those of brotherhood and class interests. The atoms make up 

 the mass. As the individual is so will the multitude be. 



" What constitutes a state ? 

 Not Mgh-raised battlement and labored mound, 



Thick wall or moated gate : 

 Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned, 



Not bays and broad-armed ports 

 "Where laughing at the storm proud navies ride ; 



Not starred and spangled courts 

 Where low-bowed baseness wafts perfume to pride. 



No ! men, high-minded men. 



Men who their duties know, 

 But know their rights ; and knowing dare maintain, 



Prevent the long-aimed blow 

 And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain. 



These constitute a state 

 And sovereign law, that state's collected will, 



O'er thrones and globes elate 

 Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill." 



