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[xxxvi. 34] 1821. April 25.
[xxxvi. 34]

1821. April 25.

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To this latter assertion there are two answers.

One is - that it is a mere assertion altogether destitute of any ground that ever has been attempted to be made, or, in the nature of the case is capable of being made.

The other is - that such experience, as the nature of the case has been capable of furnishing, operates, the whole of it, in contradiction to this same assertion. The practical states by which this body of experience has been furnished are the confederated body of the Anglo-American States: original number of them, at the time of their declaration of independence, thirteen: but since that number, by successive accessions, augmented to its present number 22 or 23. In no one of these has the matter of wealth, in any quantity whatsoever, been applied to the gratification of personal appetite in any shape, the person of the chief or any other functionary, or to the purpose of producing by means of corruptive influence, corrupt obsequiousness, or to any purpose to which the appellation of delusion can with any propriety be applied. If in the person /situation/ of the chief functionary of the whole confederacy, the matter of wealth has in any quantity, been applied to any one of these purposes, so small is the utmost quantity that can be suspected of being so applied, it can scarcely, with reference to any such subject as that in question, be said to be /spoken of as/ worth notice.

Thus much for causes: now as to effects.
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