S52 Earnest Desire that the 



and in his community is denounced the result 

 of tyranny ; while the religious persuasion of 

 the great bulk of the people condems them to 

 ignorance, and increases and foments their 

 prejudices. 



Is it possible to contemplate such a state of 

 human existence, in such a country, imme- 

 diately under the eye of the legislature, and 

 the administration of a free constitution, with- 

 out sincerely hoping, and fervently supplicating, 

 that the effectual protection of the former, 

 and the benevolent dispensation of the latter, 

 may be speedily directed to the relief of this 

 unfortunate, mismanaged, and neglected people? 



The interference of government in their be- 

 half, if it were only by the enforcement of such 

 rules and regulations as might be suggested for 

 their comfort, according to the local necessities 

 of each province or district, would not only 

 have the popular effect of exhibiting a disposi- 

 tion in the state to regard their wants and 

 meliorate their condition ; but it would be an 

 irresistible stimulus to the individual proprietor 

 of the soil, and the opulent capitalist, to unite 

 in so benevolent and patriotic a work, and, by 

 the powers which each might possess, to devise 



