It is unjust that the whole of society should contribute towards an expence of which the benefit is confined to a part of the society. - Adam Smith

The Union was a measure from which infinite Good has been derived to this country.

We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations of masters, though frequently of those of the workman. But whoever imagines, upon this account, that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject.

In England, success in the profession of the law leads to some very great objects of ambition; and yet how few men, born to easy fortunes, have ever in this country been eminent in that profession?