The Modern Emigrant Or Lover of Liberty Being a Discourse Delivered in the C
The Modern Emigrant Or Lover of Liberty Being a Discourse Delivered in the C
James M Horner
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, throws himself back upon his chintz bed, which has paid 22 per cent. , makes his will on an eight-pound stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothecary, * who has paid one hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then taxed from two to ten per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel ; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble, and he is then gathered to his fathers to be taxed no more. Now, when we... are thus oppressed with something like Egyptian bondage, and surrounded with fallen *No druggist or doctor in England can sell medicine, or practise physic, without first paying one hundred pounds to Government. cheeks, the impoverished circumstances, and the cries of the poor, it cannot but affect the feeling-s of humanity. And like a swallow, which from the laws of nature predicts the near approach of an inclement season, takes her anticipating' flight to some distant region, where she may enjoy her liberty, and a full supply of the calls of nature, so humanity, affected by the heart-rending scenes of poverty, and exorbitant demands of usurpers, cannot but desire to take her flight to some distant shore, where she may not be so much annoyed.
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