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one or two from the governor, two or 
three from Co]. Nicholas. It will be ex- 
penfive to nfove acain: but I fhall live 
cheaperthere. One-ton of goods to Fort’ 
Pitt £20 (£15 fterling.) Some ftage or 
caravan, for my*family £2072. e.. £1 S%' 
Boat to go down the river, 20 dollars ; 
befides carriage from Limeftone to Lex- 
ington, fixty miles, and feveral articles 
which I fhail find it neceflary to lay in at 
Philadelphia. They. reckon that I can 
find it very advantageous to board youth 
dt 282 2.72. fo axed. 
| Winchefter, Maryland, March 20, 1794. 

LETTER Vil. 
“** AS you do ‘not fee me, it is right 
‘that I fhould take every opportunity. of 
informing you what I have teen, and 
what I think. When you learn that an 
embargo exifts, and hasafor fome time 
exifted, inall the American:ports, to pre- 
vent the farther progrefs of thofe depreda- 
‘tions which have been committed on our 
commerce and fhipping, and that the moft 
vigorous meafures will be purfued, if an 
indeainification cannot be obtained with- 
out them, you will not wonder at not 
feeing-me according to our original inten- 
tion. Ihave, in part, prepared fuch ac- 
counts of the refult of my enquiries, as f 
thought would afford the beft fatisfaction ; 
and have put them in the way of being con- 
veyed by the firft opportunities. 
\As to America, in general, it anfwers 
my expectations with refpeét to the main 
points. There is, in moft of the States, a 
perfect and equal enjoyment of relicious 
rights. There is in all of them the higheift 
degree of civil liberty. This isa fufiicient 
recommendation to any one whofeels the 
chain, and pants for freedom. 
the ‘liberty of England equal to that of 
America, fill, though it might have no. 
allurements for the opulent, it would offer 
inducements fufficient for the induftrious 
poor, and tomen of fmall property. Itis 
anew country. It is not overftocked 
with inhabitants. Men do not ftand in 
one-another’s way. Every one, almoft, 
who will exert himfelt, is fure of encou- 
ragement. And, though you and I fhould 
be wnable to improve our circumftances 
by a removal to America, yet there is no 
queftion, but that we put our children 
into a fituation where, with common in- 
duftry, they cannot fail of obtaining a 
competency. I mention thefe things (fi- 
milar, perhaps, to what I have mentioned 
before) becaule I wif to fix your atten- 
tion to the true motives of removing to 
America. For want-of regarding thefe 
{f 
Letters from Mr. Toulmin of Kentucky. 
But, were _ 
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confiderations fufficiently, and from think- 
ing .oo much of other motives, which 
apply only to fome particular fituations, 
or which do not apply at all, there always 
have been, and there always will be, per- 
fons, whofe fanguine expectations end in 
difappointment and difguit. They cqgm- 
plain of a want of beauty in the face of 
the country; of the heat of the fummers, 
and the coldnefs of the winters ; of the 
dificulty of procuring fervants, and the 
uncertainty of keeping them, when they 
are procured; of the prevalence of flies 
and frogs ; of the irreligion or the bigotry 
of the people; and above all, of the 
dearnefs of European commodities, an 
evil which they neceflarily feel moreon the’ 
firft fettling’ (when' a difproportionate 
quantity of family articles mult be beught} 
than at any future period: and this evil 
is not counterbalanced by the cheapnefs of 
provifions in the fea-ports ; for in almof 
all the fea-perts, provifiens, lodgings, 
boarding, houfe-rent, tavern-rates, &c. 
are high, : 
But ftill, allowing to all thefe objections 
their proper weight, I maintain~ that 
America is the country for the fons of 
freedom, for poor men, and for the mid- 
dling clafs with large families. ‘What 
part of America is. to be preferred, isa 
more dubious quettion. It depends alto- 
gether upon a man’s own views, habits, © 
and qualifications. If you with to canvais 
as freely the meafures of the American 
government, as you formerly did thofe of 
the Britifh government, you willdo well 
not to fettle among the Pennfylvanians. 
If you muft drink a bottle cf wine with 
every meal, or woukd with to be travelling 
every now and then from one State*to ano= 
ther, you will be imprudent in going to 
Kentucky. However, go to any fea-port, 
and you will foon think yourfelf able te ~ 
At New York, you will find > 
decide. 
that no country is to be compared with the 
Mohawk river. At Philadelphia, you 
will think yourfelf mad to imagine that 
any thine can be good out of Penniylvania : 
you will fuipeét that you may as well go 
to the crave as to the banks of the Ohio. 
At Alexandria, you will foym high ideas 
of the valley of Shenandoah: and, in that 
valley, you wil] hear every one {peaking 
of the excellence of Kentucky. For my 
own part, I knew not wilat to think,. or 
what to determine upon. Iam happy in 
being forced to determine for no one but 
myfelf. I found the price of land too 
high in all the valuable fettled parts of 
eaftern- America, to be within the reach 
of men who might have no more than 
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