By the operation of this plan, the poor laws, those instruments of civil torture, will be superceded.… The dying poor will not be dragged from place to place to breathe their last, as a reprisal of parish upon parish. Widows will have a maintenance for their children … and children will no longer be considered as encreasing the distresses of their parents.… The number of petty crimes, the offspring of distress and poverty, will be lessened. The poor, as well as the rich, will then be interested in the support of Government, and the cause and apprehension of riots and tumults will cease. Ye who
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