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GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. 



ment, is within their reach, if they possess suf- 

 ficient ability to obtain it ; — they feel also, that 

 they are free, and that their property cannot 

 be taken away from them ; — they find them- 

 selves to be something in the scale of the world, 

 and are possessed of the civil liberty so long 

 denied them. 



The change to a free commerce is already 

 felt by them, as they are enabled to employ 

 to advantage what money the revolution has 

 left them, not only in making purchases at a 

 cheaper rate than formerly, of things necessary 

 to their own comfort, but in being able to 

 lay out their money in commercial specula- 

 tions. As they become rich, and have more 

 capital to lay out, money will flow in multi- 

 plied channels ; and the lower classes will 

 obtain gradual and permanent employment : 

 every day will improve their state, and Co- 

 lombia will be a most rich and flourishing 

 country. 



Mankind are fond of extremes ; and we find 

 that where a government is overturned, the 

 people fly from a despotic and absolute power, 

 to a republican form of government, and vice 

 versa, as history invaria,bly testifies. But let 



