1S4 CONCERNING OUR MARINE, &C, 



monopoly and their abettors were sent oS to some 

 separate quarter of the world with all their beloved 

 restrictions, duties, tariffs, passports, revenue officers, 

 blockade men, with the innumerable petty interfer- 

 ing vexatious regulations, and all the contrivances 

 which sm-ely the devil has invented to repress indus- 

 try and promote misery, where they might form an 

 Elysium of their own. 



There is nothing more certain, should we by re- 

 strictions continue to banish knowledge, capital, and 

 industry from our shores ^, than that the Genius of 

 Improvement will fix upon some other place for the 

 iseat of her throne. Maritime dominion will follow 

 in her train ; and on the first war, all exportation 

 of the products of our manufacturers being at an 

 end, unexampled misery will involve four-fifths of 

 our population, and an explosion will ensue, from its 

 origin and character of unparalleled fury, which will 

 sweep to destruction the insane authors of the cala- 

 mity — tear to shreds the whole fabric of society — 

 and give to the winds all the institutions which man 

 has been accustomed to revere. 



* The same polity under which Britain has acquired supre- 

 macy, will not now serve to continue it. A knowledge of the 

 interests of nations is abroad, and if we will not suffer our coun- 

 try to be the emporium of the world, another will. 



