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 ¬tion, that every man who was able and wiHing to work might find employment; but that is not the case now, and the evil may be most distinctly traced to your great taxation, and to an erroneous policy, which, by depressing agriculture, has depressed every thing else. — To use the words of a great poet of England, ' We track the felon home/ — This most important subject lies within the narrowest compass, and may be summed up in a word. — Indeed, you have almost exhausted it yourself, and I have little that is my own to offer. ¬" The mischief began in the mistaken system you adopted for the importation of foreign grain; but however your government might have been perplexed and almost overborne on the first consideration of the subject, I cannot anticipate that it will suffer such a monstrous evil to continue. — It must surely see that the profits of a few importing merchants, engaged in speculations of this description, can never cir- culate with the same advantage as if the same ¬M 3 capital ¬