Without entering at any length into this subject, the consideration of
which would lead me into all the details of our every-day habits, I
pass on at once to the question which has induced this inquiry, while I
proclaim to the world loudly, fearlessly, and resolutely, “Eureka!”--I
've found it. Yes, my fellow-countrymen, I have found a remedy to supply
the deficient income of the nation, not only without imposing a new
tax, or inflicting a new burden upon the suffering community, but also
without injuring vested rights, or thwarting the activity of commercial
enterprise. I neither mulct cotton or corn; I meddle not with parson or
publican, nor do I make any portion of the state, by its own privations,
support the well-being of the rest. On the contrary, the only individual
concerned in my plan, will not be alone benefited in a pecuniary point
of view, but the best feelings of the heart will be cultivated and
strengthened, and the love of home, so characteristically English,
fostered in their bosoms. I could almost grow eloquent upon the benefits
of my discovery; but I fear, that were I to give way to this impulse,
I should become so fascinated with myself, I could scarcely turn to
the less seductive path of simple explanation. Therefore, ere it be too
late, let me open my mind and unfold my system:
“What great effects from little causes spring.”
Any one who ever heard of Sir Isaac Newton and his apple will
acknowledge this, and something of the same kind led me to the very
remarkable fact I am about to speak of.
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