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he gained in trade and speculation.
Tor lorc time. we have not met with
paragraph 60 much in accordance with our


feelings and experience. We have lived
twenty years in the country, and thirteen IL
large cities, the whole Of the latter period, a"c
at least one third Of the former, have been
spent in strict observation and calculation,
the result of this long experience, has been
altogether in favor Of the country, as the Ia
ther oC growing family, had rather be IN
the country with capital Of ten thousand DOL
lars, than in any city in the Union with thirty
thousand. The far mer who has hundred
acres OF good land we'll stocked, IS more inoe


nendant and has better chance, Of making
his children what they should be, than the city
merchant with fifty thousand, the former ny
have the happiness to see his offspring usetui
and v;rtuous citizens, the latter stands two
chances to one, of seeing his fashionable va
gahonds. We decidedly recommend an az


ricnltural life to our brethren, Il IS more ao


,nted to their situation and interest, than any
other. whatever may be the disadvantages
thev labour under in cities, in consequence Of
preiudsce, such is the justice Of The De'ty' that
the soil will produce TO them as abundant as
- anv others. and such is the wants, if not
the Justice, of community, that the markets
viii afford them as good prices as they DO
others. Have we not fifty families IN the
o;tv of Newly ork, that coulu carry from 1--we
h,ndred to ten thousand dollars capital to
the country, ten years ago we hao
hundred families possessed of these abilities
and if there are not fifty at the present day
this circumstance is the greater argument II
favour Of country life, if there be SO mary
families. possessed Of the above mentioned
means we intreat them by their own resPecta
J;Etv, Ey all the interests Of their children an'
by the good of society at large, while they az


vet in possession Of such means, to prepar
them for an investment in the right OF sol


and in agricultural implements, some argu
that they have no experience In husbandry
as a reason why they do not become farmers
To such would assert that there is but on
wears difference, between the experience


farmer and the observative novice. am haf


py to say that part Of the coloured popul'


ton of this city, begin to awake to their tru


interest, already have several families pu


chased farms and settled themselves in Il


country, they are nobly pursuing an agr'cu


tural life, and exerting their due proportion


moral and political influence. May this go'


spirit pervade the minds Of our part Of cor


munity, until our portion Of city dissipation


transformed into country respectabihty al


usefulness. Such'a change W. uld embrace I