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opolies, and all other cabals, factions, and conspiracies. y will be glad to profit by your countenance.

hey eagerly seek the company of respectable and thrifty It gives them a double chance to use and cheat them at same time.

hey are vain and venal, a little flattery pleases, and a favor, dollar, tickles their venality.

all their contracts, they pretend to be bashful, but are ductile if alone, and for money may be used with unlied liberty.

ake, for example, a political demagogue, a monopoly, or oration Shylock, the leaders of factions, or any grog-shop gambling judge; smooth in with, and praise their motives, slick up their vanity, flatter their pride, and accommodate r sordid appetites, and they will betray each other, and and carry like Indians.

here is nothing wrong in this; it is defending yourself with weapons of your adversaries, and preventing them from ng you by surprise.

does not follow that you are to be depraved, or to make d use of these participations, no more than this is to be imed to a doctor who has administered to an infamous disease, lawyer who has defended a murderer.

The simplicity and want of tact and forecast exhibited by cases just recited, of Lady Hastings, of the persons swindled nsurance frauds, and the piano-maker, contrasted with the posed precautions, show how inevitably they must circumtricks and fraud, if discreetly employed.

f these victims of public opinion had studied and realized detestable and hollow hypocrisy of the world, the first would e lifted her soul, with proud and conscientious scorn, above power of professional ignorance and public prejudice, and ently awaited the sure and speedy crisis of her triumphant lication; and the others would have at the outset evaded the s of their adversaries; or, if unavoidably ensnared, they ■ld have defied, indicted, exposed, and degraded the culprits,

evening session of the Roman Senate, Cicero inthe names of the persons present, and of all that done, at a secret and treasonable meeting, then Catiline's house, by him and his co-conspirators. -graph too.

n accepted an invitation to dine with a wealthy and Whig, at his splendid mansion near to the Ame

joyful greetings upon his arrival were being tenportico, the sharp eye of the host fell upon a troop agoons, passing round a turn in the road, at full s the house, and with great trepidation looked at d uttered an exclamation of surprise, and tremud the words, "five minutes too soon;" upon which placed his hand gently upon his shoulder, and replied, "You need not be alarmed, sir; it is I, and are after."

stant, the troop surrounded the house, Washinghis saddle, and the American dragoons, in Ene, dashed to the American camp with their prize. tes afterwards, the British troop came; but they mbuscade, with a general officer at their head, and on arraigned with their detestable spy, before the e continental commander.

O difficulty in obtaining all this information. The of gossips, tattlers, and bores; persons who reering up, and scattering scandal, hearing themnd being listened to.

not pump them; a marvel or a wonder is all the nt they require; and even those of the sinister dupes, te and wary, and secretly engaged in tricks and 1 their own account, are conscious of their moral uspicious of detection, anxious to hold the favorable obtain the views and knowledge, of respectable per, therefore, ever anxious to court their society and They are covertly after your secrets, to use you; the trembling fools always in your paths, and from ncy of the very men you wish to pump and use,

were minus more than one-nair their capital, and got stock reduced to meet this disaster; and all the rest were vinsolvent.

er the explosion of the United States Bank, there was - crumpled up amongst the rubbish in a closet, as has been y stated, a sheet of common letter-paper, on which was d in pencil mark the initials of some of the officers and favorites, to whom more than $20,000,000 had been 1, on hypothecation, by a committee of this board to sunersons on their notes with collaterals of West Feliciana, burg, and other moonshine scrip; and the sequel showed nore than the whole capital, $35,000,000, by these and r causes had been swept away.

s doubtful if the debts of this bank will be paid, and it - admitted that the stockholders will never get a dollar. t in proportion to the magnitude of the objects of venal er, are the duplicity and art employed to attain them. years before the eruption referred to occurred, the pomp ower of this institution so mysteriously pervaded the mind, that acts of disgusting adulation were lavished its officers, those opposed to it were persecuted, and exons of doubt as to the integrity of its governors or the cy of the bank would have exposed the publisher to the of being mobbed or lynched.

n after the exposure of the truth, such were the morbid thy and sordid influences employed, that the publication evidence given upon the efforts made to bring them to was wholly suppressed, and they all escaped through tten meshes of the law. Such is the marvelous and cial delusion and the mysterious and successful accoments of fashionable and ostentatious rogues.

not with them, except to find them out; to expose and ite them is waste of time, and dangerous.

them, to know and guard against their frauds, but put g in their power, for it will be embezzled or stolen.

utility of all banks, insurance and savings companies is il. The ostensible idea is that they accommodate the

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e generally deluded into extravagance by relyd facilities, instead of their own safe and patient

like faro; the fact is that the profits will exceed e dealer and the banker would not sit down to

rance, without capital, rests upon the same specuould not be begun, and money savings shops impudent sophism of the ignorance and stupidity rs, which is as false on one side as it is cowardly the other, for there never was a human being stry to make a dollar that had not sagacity to as a corporation, who, however honest, out of its profits will take good care to pay its rent and

real advantages are not only doubtful, but so it re always used for fraud and swindling; and all nless they are indubitably certain that they are nagement of those who are pure and discreet, refuse to touch their stock, and by every act of e, discredit and repudiate them.

le men will properly use and exert their influence, down these insolent and audacious usurpers of , they can themselves obtain and hold dominion lar will.

ous frauds, these private and lawful preparations e, these deadly weapons carefully concealed, with awake, but not too wide open, you may glide past gues, using them yourself, and not being used by

s I walked by myself, I talked to myself, And myself it said unto me,

eware of thyself, take care of thyself,

For nobody cares for thee

GOVERNMENTS.

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ces of despotic governments-Nobility-The multitude-Ambitionontesquieu-Office - Free governments - The poor and richord-Cost of twenty years' war in Europe Of people to govern themves-Liberty-Congress-Rome-Tribunes-Veto power - Revolun-People of the United States-Vigilance-Danger-Union-Fratery-Apathy of the people - Excitement - Inconsistency-Query, if onopolies in free governments do not defraud the people as much as ivileged orders do in arbitrary governments-Can any form of governent guard against private and public abuses?—Veto power-Occasion vigilance-Extracts, &c.

AMILIARITY With guilt benumbs the conscience and enages the heart to persevere in wickedness, but it can furno excuse or palliation for it; on the contrary, it requires constant perpetration of other crimes to justify, conceal, and atain the first sin.

ne crime necessarily provokes, excites, and requires another, 1 the mind is wholly engrossed in shifts and subterfuges for practice of fraud and violence.

he first unlawful grant of land, and creation of privilege itle or franchise, for the exclusive advantage of the few, he expense of the rest of the people, was an act of unauized violence; and its continuance, under the penalties of rrection and treason for resistance, is an aggravation, as it hourly repetition of the original fraud.

o people ever consented to these usurpations upon their ts no more than they have consented to be slaves.

hey will no sooner surrender a part of their rights than will voluntarily agree to part with them all.

Whenever this invasion has been perpetrated, it has been mplished by the despotic power of the sword, and the people e been compelled to submit to it.

Whether this arbitrary force covers a part or the whole, the ciple is the same. The military chieftain and the ruthless agogue, who would rob the people of their rights, by or

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