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's bound to extend her favors to foreign powers to her own disad- 

 vantage, even if they were in the least reciprocal. 



And if the American manufacturer is liable to the popular odium 

 connected with the accusation of a monopolist and an aristocrat, 

 we are nevertheless persuaded that the results of his labors and in- 

 genuity are redeemed by their distribution in his native land, and 

 with his own countrymen, while the importer of foreign articles, 

 without taxation, and often without the privilege of citizenship, 

 accumulates an ample fortune by the servile labor of Europe, who 

 condescendingly extends his patronage to him whom he sneeringly 

 terms the vile American, and finally returns to his own country, (per- 

 haps as a forgotten outcast,) to luxuriate upon that which the mis- 

 taken legislation of our own, is the means of placing him in pos- 

 session of — and although foreigners are evidently not a few who 

 accumulate these fortunes in the manner already stated, it is evident 

 thai they are not without their power in producing certain favorable 

 feelings and results in their own behalf among foreigners who are 

 citizens, which influence is felt at the counting room, the exchange, 

 and the ballot boxes. * 



For one, we profess to believe that philanthropy which directs us 

 to " love one another," but we are yet to learn that in a national 

 point of view, it implies a tame submission to the dictation of am- 

 bitious strangers. On the contrary, we should like a little more of 

 that leaven which helped to raise our nation to its present position, 

 and in order that we may more readily identify our meaning, we 

 shall conclude by offering to your notice, a part of the brief preface 

 of one of the earliest, yet comparatively modern books printed in 

 this State. 



The work alluded to, is the Laws of New-York, from the 1st to 

 the 15th session — in 2 vols. 



The editor dates his prefaced—Printing office, New-York, January 

 ■2, 1792, and says: 



" The types and papei' were manufactured in this State — anxious 

 to give public satisfaction, and fearing after the publication of his 

 proposals that the types therein proposed to print this work upon 

 would not hold out good to the end, the editor engaged Mr. Mappa 

 of this city, an ingenious type founder from Holland, to cast a new 

 fount for it, which unavoidably delayed the publication for near two 

 months. 



