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cate the poor man. Look across the country from
any hill-side around us and the landscape seems
to crave Government. The actual differences of
men must be acknowledged, and met with love and
wisdom. These rising grounds which command
the champaign below, seem to ask for lords, true
lords, land-lords, who understand the land and its
uses and the applicabilities of men, and whose
government would be what it should, namely me-
diation between want and supply. How gladly
would each citizen pay a commission for the sup-
port and continuation of good guidance. None
should be a governor who has not a talent for
governing. Now many people have a native skill
for carving out business for many hands ; a genius
for the disposition of affairs; and are never hap-
pier than when difficult practical questions, which
embarrass other men, are to be solved. All lies
in light before them; they are in their element.
Could any means be contrived to appoint only
these! There really seems a progress towards
such a state of things in which this work shall be
done by these natural workmen; and this, not cer-
tainly through any increased discretion shovm by
the citizens at elections, but by the gradual con-
tempt into which official government falls, and the
increasing disposition of private adventurers to as-
sume its fallen functions. Thus the national Post