Is the poor laborer to be abandoned to the flinty heart and griping hand of base self-interest, supported by the sword of law, especially when there is reason to suppose that the very avarice of farmers themselves has concurred with the errors of government to bring famine on the land?
He questions the morality of abandoning laborers to the harsh realities of self-interest and law.
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To tell the people that they are relieved by the dilapidation of their public estate is a cruel and insolent imposition.
They rob only to enable them to cheat; but in a very short time they defeat the ends both of the robbery and the fraud, by making out accounts for other purposes, which blow up their whole apparatus of force and of deception.
Our people will find employment enough for a truly patriotic, free, and independent spirit, in guarding what they possess from violation.
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