1818. Novr. 24.

Official Economy

Ch Expence minimized

Patriotic auction

? Objection - Poor excluded.

Of the exclusion thus undesignedly applied were peremptory and

unsurmountable acting as in the case of Hindoo and European feudal Casts upon all

individuals placed by birth in certain classes, the objection might indeed operate with

a weight which it has been seen does not belong to it. But the case thus supposed has no

existence. By whatsoever means acquired, let but a man possess the requisite quantity of

wealth the bar by which he is excluded is removed. In the very nature of things in so

far as to the possession of any object the possession of a certain quantity of the

matter of wealth is necessary all persons not in possession of this necessary quantity

of the means of purchase, stand excluded from the possession of the subject of purchase.

But in this case the exclusion is the work of the inexorable nature of things not of any

unjust or impolitic law: the work of nature not of law. If on the ground of want of

nobility of birth, or want of conformity to a religion by law established all persons

thus deficient were excluded by law from the faculty of concluding their repast by pine

Apples here would be injustice. In point of fact under every European Government with

the exception of a very few all persons do stand excluded from the faculty of

participating in so eminently expensive a gratification. But the exclusion being here

the work not of law but of Nature here is no injustice.