1 62 AMERICAN FARMS. 



quantities of lead, tin, iron, copper, gold, and silver. 

 That being the road towards barbarism, and the course 

 in that direction having been continued with remarlcable 

 pertinacity, we are thus supplied with an explanation of 

 the facts, that the power of trade grows steadily while 

 that of commerce declines, and that in the land in which 

 all men were once declared to be free and equal ' free 

 society ' is now declared to have proved *a failure.'"' 

 And still the difficulty becomes greater. More decided 

 protection has only augmented the forces of centraliza- 

 tion within the national bounds, but indirect taxation 

 remains the same evil. 



' " Social Science," vol. iii., p. igi. 



