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power is truly American; it is an Indian force governed by 

 the convents of the missionaries, which has occasionally bid 

 defiance to the Spanish military commanders, and has effica- 

 ciously resisted several attempts to turn the monasteries into 

 barracks. Such a population, almost wholly strange to Eu- 

 ropean connexions and cares, will always be held in subjection 

 by too frail a tenure, not to be wisely exchanged for the 

 ruder, but more plastic people of the Orinoko. 



One mistake of the antient English administrations has been 

 the not sending out their colonial governors sufficiently accom- 

 panied. The multiplication of places is not merely a conve- 

 nience to the patrons ; it is also a benefit to the subjects. Va- 

 riety of ranks is but a distribution of political labor ; it is fa- 

 vourable to subordination, to the collection of instruction, to 

 the complete performance of duty, and to the advancement 

 and recompense of merit. A splendid establishment, like all 

 pomp, is adapted both to amuse and to overawe the multitude; 

 and it tends to introduce a multiplicity of artificial wants, 

 which furnish employ and nutriment to the different manufac- 

 turers of the mother country. The principal merchants and 

 planters soon attempt to imitate the pageantry of the governor's 

 entertainments. Utensils are sent for to London^ like those on 

 his table, and furniture, like that in his saloon. What he con- 

 siders as accommodation becomes a general want. 



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