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France also comes in for her share of obloquy. 
Now, this being the case, will not America at large 
wish most devoutly for the day to come when 
Europe shall have no more dominion over her? 
Will she not say to us, Our new forms of govern¬ 
ment are very different from your old ones ? We 
will trade with you, but we shall always be very 
suspicious of you as long as you retain possession 
of the Westlndies, which are, as we may say, close to 
our door-steads. You must be very cautious how 
you interfere with our politics; for, if we find you 
meddling with them, and by that means cause us to 
come to loggerheads, we shall be obliged to send 
you back to your own homes, three or four thousand 
miles across the Atlantic; and then, with that great 
ditch betwixt us, we may hope we shall be good 
friends. He who casts his eye on the East Indies, 
will there see quite a different state of things. The 
conquered districts have merely changed one Euro¬ 
pean master for another; and I believe there is no 
instance of any portion of the East Indies throwing 
off the yoke of the Europeans and establishing a 
government of their own. 
Ye who are versed in politics, and study the rise 
and fall of empires, and know what is good for 
civilized man, and what is bad for him, or in other 
words, what will make him happy and what will 
make him miserable—tell us how comes it that 
Europe has lost almost her last acre in the bound¬ 
less expanse of territory which she so lately pos¬ 
sessed in the west, and still contrives to hold her 
vast property in the extensive regions of the east ? 
FOURTH 
JOURNEY. 
