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 pity dropping both the word and balance from our hands, another friend of the Americans thinks it better to awaken another paion, and tries to alarm our interet, or excite our veneration, by accounts of their greatnes and their opulence, of the fertility of their land, and the plendour of their towns. We then begin to conider the quetion with more evennes of mind, are ready to conclude that thoe retrictions are not very oppreive which have been found conitent with this peedy growth of properity, and begin to think it reaonable that they, who thus flourih under the protection of our government, hould contribute omething towards its expence.

we are oon told that the Americans, however wealthy, cannot be taxed; that they are the decendants of men who left all for liberty, and that they have contantly preerved the principles and