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above their ears, or wearing glebbes or corelins 

 (long locks) on their heads, or hair on the upper 

 lip called cournmeal. Tyrants, in short, of all 

 ages have supposed that their arbitrary will was 

 alone sufficient to produce any revolution in the 

 customs or manners of their enslaved subjects ; 

 but when such attempts have outraged and in- 

 sulted the feelings of the people, they have not 

 always succeeded. 



How painful it is here at this day, to witness 

 the dictatorial haughtiness maintained over the 

 working classes ? It would be an injustice to 

 my own feelings as a man, were I not to hope 

 this conduct, however obnoxious, is more attri- 

 butable to the effects of habit, than an innate 

 tyranny of mind, as it is not unusual to hear 

 those highly condemn it who indulge in its 

 daily practice. r> 



The inconsiderate adoption of wrong princi- 

 ples and mistaken notions has had a baneful 

 effect on many of the higher classes in other re- 

 spects beside that of their general demeanor 

 towards their dependants towards those in the 

 subordinate and those in the lower walks of life ; 

 the latter of whom comprehending the principal 

 part of the population, in having neither utility 

 to recommend them, nor consequence to com- 



