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I was born on the fertile banks of the river Tay, in Scotland, North Britain; that classic land of science and renown, where a Wallace fought, a Knox preached, and a Scott wrote, a country only equal ed in its beauty by its salubrity; adorned by every improvement in modern husbandry, through that persevering spirit which animates an industrious and comparatively, with the rest of Europe, a free and consequently happy people. Lying on the confines of an East ern world, where, by turns, despotism and anarchy reign the sym pathetic feelings of sorrow will sometimes predominate in their breasts: still as often are their hearts rejoiced within them, to think that they have, by the interposition of Providence, a counterpoise in the west ern hemisphere; accelerated by that free and uninterrupted intercourse which they have with the highly gifted and enlightened inhabitants thereof, through the in?uence of that all-powerful and glorious engine in the hands of every republican government a free and fearless press which not only visits the palaces of the great, but enters with its all-inspiring beams into the meanest hovel of the peasant arous ing him to make the inquiry, Why this mighty difference? I say it! And made it my study how I should become a participator of such a blessed asylum, as God had provided for the poor and oppressed of every other country.
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