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stru.clion of ali men of war. I, on the contrary, should hail him m 
the greatest benefactor of mankind, who should cause all national 
quarrels to be settled by seventy-fours.-— If they were thus divided 
on the ocean, the labours of ages would become heaped on each 
other, and the accumulation of improvements and capital would 
be prodigious 1 
* Has not, in Europe, the introduction of the potatoe fattened 
millions, and called additional millions into existence ? Has not 
the introduction of sugar changed the catalogue of diseases, and 
expunged one half from the former list ?f Has not the introduction 
of cotton goods spread taste, and neatness, where before prevailed 
grossness, and filth 4 Does modern civilized society know of any 
more universal and more inabuseable means of comfort, in health., 
or of solace, in pain, than coffee and tea ? and are they not all the 
result of foreign commerce ?§ 
You say, that colonization is the immediate offspring of foreign 
trade ; and you will certainly grant, that these United States are 
the offspring of colonization I— well, I plead the cause of foreign 
commerce with these United States. They shall be my great ar- 
gument-ll I put into my scale of the question ali this noble land, 
with its eight millions of people,— most miserable, and most 
wretched, as they are— all the population of the day, all the popu- 
lation of the times to come !— What have you to put into yours ? 
“ jyie most Jlourishingy fiopulousy and best cultivated jiarts of 
Eurofiey you say, are not mariiimey or commercial^ 
But, in endeavouring to elucidate this point, you confine your- 
self to numbers ; and a mere superiority of numbers per square 
No. The consiimption of potatoes as an ariide of food^ is confined to Ire- 
land. They are used here and in England, as a sauce, or condiment — an addi- 
tion and auxiliary to the table. In ir92, in France they were almost unknown. 
tSrissot and Claviere introduced them. T. C, 
f Not that I know, T. C. 
i Cotton goods, have introduced cleanliness and the consumption, Pthisis. 
T. C. 
§ They may perhaps be somewhat pleasanter from being more fashionable 
than Balm, Sage, Chicory or Beet ; I do not know that they are better in any 
respect. T. C. 
Si I cannot urge all that is to be urged on this subject. Those who desire 
to know the comparitive value of colonies to a mother oountry, must peruse 
inderson and Be Casaux. Ganiih talks absolute nonsense on the- subject. 
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