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The difference between the genius of the British constitution,

which protects and governs North America, and that of the

mercantile company which oppresses and domineers in the East

Indies, cannot, perhaps, be better illustrated than by the

different state of those countries.

The liberal reward of labour, therefore, as it is the necessary

effect, so it is the natural symptom of increasing national

wealth. The scanty maintenance of the labouring poor, on the

other hand, is the natural symptom that things are at a stand,

and their starving condition, that they are going fast backwards.