261 
JEOOEESS OF LtrXTOI. 
^n^TlSOloT '’w? “"<1 Holland, 
and 113,000 barrels (1,864.000 piastres) of flour. These 
consumed by the opulent 
EeS ml “V The cereals of the United States have 
maize manin ^ absolute necessity, in a zone where 
maize, manioc, and bananas, were long preferred to every 
St's; r°“ of XSy alS 
prosperi^ 3'fl^^’ ^ complained of amidst tlie 
prospeiity and mcreasiiig civilization of the Havannah- but 
l~s''rf Eirone'^^ spttuom 
liquors ot Europe, we find, in the year 1816, 11 millions of 
rice an.i "dWed™ 1823, 3i millions for salt meat, 
the imne,.f • ^ vegetables. In the last mentioned year, 
noSn nf T f and the im- 
465,borarShas. " ' 
terTzi subsistence charac- 
aSv of -PnrL ^ 1 °^'“^ chimrtes, where the imprudent 
act vity of Europeans has inverted the order of nature • it 
will dimmish in proportion as the inhabitants more en- 
hf\hriow‘'S“’? interests, and discouraged 
Sion ioTl ™ry the culti- 
eSnoSv tS • of rural 
economy. The principles of that narrow policy which guides 
riie goverement of very small islands, Uabited by men 
TannS he ninr ®TJ tlioy ere sufficiently enriched, 
to tS S S ®^t®ot nearly equal 
I -1 ®/. l^og^end, covered with populous cities, and where 
j the inhabitants, established from father to son during 7ges! 
strangers to the American 
Sand of r, f,r ‘i^r own country. The population of the 
milHon ^ Jeers will periiaps exceed a 
illion, may open by its own consumption an immense field 
tlXhverilf If * V“-trade sLiild ceaseSgether. 
the slaves ^_1 pass by degrees into the class of free men; 
and society, being reconstructed, without sufiering any of the 
violent convdsions of ciril dissension, will follow t^e path 
ich nature has traced for all societies that become nume- 
rous and enliglitened. The cultivation of the siigarcX 
remarn ^ot.’^o.^^andoiied ; but it wffl nl longer 
remain the prmcipal basis of national existence than tha 
