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Show SERIES or ANSWERS 'ro POPULAR OBJECTIONS. w ANSWER 3. IN refpect to Rice, a great Part 013JE(:TI<)N vn N Cafe of :1 Separation, from whence lhall we procure Rice and Tobacco? ANSWER 1. THIS Objeé‘tion turns on two Stippofitions, viz. I. That after a Separation the Virginians and Caro/inizzm will not fell To- bacco and Rice to Engliflz Merchants for a good Price, and ready Money :---And, zdly, that Tobacco and Rice can grow in no Part of the Globe, but in Virginia and Caro/inn. Will any Man in his Senfes dare to aflirm either of theft: Things 3 , of the fwampy Coafl of Guinea, and more efpecially the Marlhes near the great Rivers, which, like the Nile, annually overflow, would produce Rice in great Abundance for us, if properly culti‘ vated. For were the native Inhabitants of Guinea (I repeat it again, becaufe it cannot be repeated too often) to be taught and encouraged to be in-~ dul‘trious in their own Country, inllead of being made Slaves, and cruelly tranlported into ours, i they would, beyond a Doubt, ule and confume at leafi four‘Times the Qiantity of Britiflz Mao nufac‘tures, more than the Slaves and their ty- rannical Mailers now do. For Slaves are little. better Cullomers in any Country than f0 many Head ofBlack Cattle; yet much moredangerous and difficult to be governed. And indeed little Indul‘try can be expeé‘ted from any poor ANSWER 2. WITH relpeét to Tobacco, al-i Wretchcs, who know aforehand, that a greater molt every Country in Europe can produce it in lrlxei‘tion of Induftry on their Parts, would only Plenty, ii‘ipermittcd by its relpecliveliaegillaturm f0 to do, [lee my [fourth 'l‘raift on Political and Commercial Subjects, 3d Edit. Page 205.] be an lncreafe ofLabour, painful to themfelves, and folely beneficial to their Mafters. Nay, in England itlclf there were formerly mn- fiderable Plantations, and more Ground was; [WIIILST I Was copying the above for the daily planting. llut our Government loi'ia;i..,l the Cultivation of it by li;\'c1‘t‘. l,'enalties in lizvcral Acts of Parliament, in ord cr to favour the ll"Lerelt 01" the Colonies. /.\ ,‘I ‘5 WE i l'rels, a learned and ingenious Friend, formerly a Governor in one of our Plantations, obliged me with the following important Oblei‘vation : " That Rice may be railed on the Grain Coalt " of /1'frim in any Qiantities: And that he f‘ himl‘elf |