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bring a fet of Englith plough-irons and 
waggon tire, and a few other implements 
not bulky.  If:a mechanic, his tools. 
Two or three good fheep would bea capi- 
tal acquifition, As to houfeheld furni- 
ture and apparel, every thing that is ne- 
ceflary fhould be brought, except cumber- 
fome articles. The whole, indeed, can 
be bought here, bet when a man_ is 
coming he may as well bring them himtelf 
as pay another for bringing them. Gar- 
den and gials feeds too may be ufeful. 
You may have fome which we have not, 
and you may have fome better than ours 
of the fame kind. I fhould do the fame if 
I were going from Kentucky to England, 
and for the fame reaton. 
14. The Charader of the People.—The 
character of the pcople of Keritucky has 
been grofsly mifreprefented. Becaufe the 
inhabitants of oldcountries areveryftrongly 
attached to their native foil, and feldom 
move from it with their families, unlefs 
urged by the moft powerful confderations : 
the idea is very natural to them, that it is 
the fame ip America, and that Kentucky, 
therefore, mult have been reforted to as an 
afylum for perfons of abandoned charac- 
ters and defperate fortunes. The preju- 
dices of many of the inhabitants of the 
Atlantic States, who have fecn with jea- 
Joufy the rapid population of the weftern 
country; by emigrations from the eaftern, 
have countenanced and given curiency to 
the calumny. The opinion, however, is 
abfurd ; for no man could, by coming to 
Kentucky, either avoid paying his debts, 
or e{cape any criminal profecution to which 
he had expofed himfelf. Though, as to 
Internal concerns, we are governed by our 
own laws, and juftice is adminiflered by 
courts which have no dependance on the 
federal government; yet, by a national ar- 
rangement, fugitives, from the juthce of 
any State are, on application, immediately 
delivered up by the State they bave fled to, 
and debts contracted in any part of Ame- 
rica, are recoverable in Kentucky, beth in 
the federal-coust which is held here, as 
well as in courts which are eftablifhed by 
the authority of cur own State-legiflature, 
As to the caufe of emigrations, the fact is, 
that there is a {pirit of enicrprilfe, ory at 
any vate, an apparent reftleftnefs, in the 
people of America, of which the people 
of Great Britain have no ideas. The fa- 
cility of removing, and the temptations 
to remove, are greater here than they can 
be in the old countries of Eurepe.. Our 
population is diffufed over, a widely ex~ 
tended territory, and it has not yet foand 
its level, The profpeét of a richer foil, 
Letter on Kentucky, from Mr, Toulmin. [October I, 
or of better water, or of fhorter winters, 
or of a frefher range for cattle, or of 
more capacious landed pofleffions, is an in- 
ducement powerful enough with an Ame- 
rican to determine him to difpcfe of his 
immovable property, to aficmble his fa- 
mily, to collect together his: cattle, to 
geer up his horles, and to trayerle a {pace 
of perhaps of four cr s00 miles in earch 
of better country. Their provifions, and 
their horfe-ieed, they take with them, or 
purchafe in the grois, as occafion requires 5 
and, as they have likewife fome bedding, 
anda few culinary utenfils, they will not 
perhaps, in a journey of 500 miles, {pend 
a fingle dollar atatavern, In fume feafons 
of the year, there is fcarcely a day in 
which we do not fee {ome man or other 
pafling this way or that way before our 
door, with his wife and his little-ones, 
and his man-fervants, and his. maid-fer- 
vants, and his cattle, and his fheep, and 
every thing that is his. You cannot 
conclude, therefore, from the Jatenefs of 
the fettlement of Kentucky, that it is 
compoled of worfe or better men than 
ather parts of the Union. As far as I 
can judge, they do not materially differ 
from the people of the other States which I 
have vifired. There are, however, fea- 
tures {rongly dilcriminating the Ameri- 
can people from the people of Great Bri- 
tain: but, I believe, that almoft every 
difference is refelvable into the difference 
of their fituations, I mean the difference 
in the ages of the two countries, and in 
the ttate of their population, The in er- 
courie among Americans is more general 
and indifcriminate than it is among Eng- 
lifiman. Neither religious ner political 
diftinctions, nor difference of perion, nor 
difference of fortune, ftand up as walls of 
feparation, as they do inEngignd, between 
the inhabitants of the fame neighbourhood. 
The fiate of our population is fuch, that 
we really cannot afford to make the dilcri- 
minations which you do. We have, there- 
fore, more praétical liberality and for- 
bearance ene towards another than you 
have. Atthe fame time, however, it is 
to be regretted, that we have lefs practical 
integrity than. the people of England. 
The temptation to difhonefty is much mere 
generally diffuied here, than it is with 
you. Fewer men are brought up to any, 
regular bufinefs : a vaft proportion of our, 
people are, from time to time, engaged 
in buying and felling among one another,, 
and that not inthe way of a regular oc- 
cupation, their occupation being agricul- 
ture; but, for the fake of occafional and, 
extra-profeflional gains; property of all. 
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