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forming a principle of union to the different members, and 

 in giving unity and stability to the government. 



In respect to our own great landholders themselves, we 

 would ask, where is there that unnatural parent — that mi- 

 serable victim of hereditary pride — who does not desire to 

 see his domains equally divided among his own children? 

 The high paid sinecures in church and state will not 

 much longer be a great motive for keeping up a power- 

 ful family head, whose influence may burthen their fel- 

 low-citizens with the younger branches. Besides, when a 

 portion of land is so large, that the owner cannot have an 

 individual acquaintance and associations with every 

 stream, and bush, and rock, and knoll, the deep enjoy- 

 ment which the smaller native proprietor would liaA^e in 

 the peculiar features, is not called forth, and is lost to 

 man. The abolition of the law of entail and primogeni- 

 ture, will, in the present state of civilization, not only add 

 to the happiness of the proprietor, heighten morality, and 

 give much greater stability to the social order, but will 

 also give a general stimulus to industry and improvement, 

 increasing the comforts and elevating the condition of 

 the operative class. 



In the new state of things which is near at hand, the 

 proprietor and the mercantile class will amalgamise, — 

 employment in useful occupations will not continue 

 to be held in scorn, — the merchant and manufacturer will 

 no longer be barely tolerated to exist, harassed at every 

 turn by imposts and the interference of petty tyrants ; — 

 Government, instead of forming an engine of oppression, 

 being simplified and based on morality and justice, will 



