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pitch to which the mind is wound up by education and 

 moral training, the greater and more self-denying and 

 more energetic will be the efforts to discharge well the 

 duties of life in the social relations. 



" Our laboring people are so low and unfeeling in their 

 habits, that they are almost as independent of us as the 

 animals that roam about. We have contentedly witnessed 

 their gradual deterioration, and we do not bestir ourselves to 

 arrest it. We shall never by mere importations of people 

 from Africa, raise the country to true prosperity. That is 

 not the true remedy — quantity we have already, but a 

 good quality of people we have yet to seek, and we must 

 establish it, by every means in our power. The annual 

 grant for education ought not to be less than £5,000. 



" I remain, dear sir, 



" Yours truly, 



" Wm. Wemyss Anderson. 

 "Richmond Pen, Sept 9, 1850." 



For these reasons, I submit that the argument by which 

 Messrs. Carlyle and Stanley attempt to justify the interfer- f 

 ence of Parliament, either to enforce labor or to reward its 

 product by discriminating taxation, is like the facts upon 

 which it rests, without any foundation. The entire neglect 

 of all the most obvious methods of economizing labor, the 

 number of idlers that throng the country, the low wages 

 that are offered, and the utter recklessness with which labor 

 is squandered, fully establish the truth of my statement, 



