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81, with taxes or burthens, municipal or governmental. The Anglo-American is free in the possession and enjoyment of his property: he speculates and does with it what suits his convenience or pleasure, and has nothing to pay but the duties upon the importation of foreign goods or produce. These two advantages will always give a great superiority to the people of the United States, over all others who do not possess them; because they communicate to labour its greatest effect, and to the spirit of industry, and love of country, their greatest latitude, without which no nation can rise to prosperity. We may perceive the importance of these two advantages to the United States in the 11