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been taken from persons whose interests were affected, and whose opinions were adopted, without reflecting that such persons were incompetent judges in their own case; of which, moreover, they took very partial and limited views, while every one shrunk from the investigation of facts with which those who were more immediately concerned were supposed to be conusant. Errors have thus multiplied; but it is consoling to find, that the sources of our prosperity remain entire, and that we have only to correct those errors, in order to advance in improvement with a rapidity and to an extent hitherto unexampled, even in this country.

August, 1832.

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