themselves an universal antagonism of interests, and this tends, of
course, to the production of a bad state of moral feeling, and an
universal tendency to decline in the feeling of self-dependence. Men,
women, and children are becoming from day to day more dependent on the
will of others, and as it is that dependence which constitutes
slavery, we might with reason expect to find some of the vices of the
slave--and were we to find them we should not greatly err in
attributing their existence to the system thus described by Adam
Smith:--

"The industry of Great Britain, instead of being accommodated to a
great number of small markets, has been principally suited to one
great market. Her commerce, instead of running in a great number of
small channels, has been taught to run principally in one great
channel. But the whole system of her industry and commerce has
thereby been rendered less secure, the whole state of her body
politic less healthful than it otherwise would have been. In her
present condition, Great Britain resembles one of those unwholesome
bodies in which some of the vital parts are overgrown, and which,
upon that account, are liable to many dangerous disorders, scarce
incident to those in which all the parts are more properly
proportioned. A small stop in that great blood-vessel which has been
artificially swelled beyond its natural dimensions, and through which
an unnatural proportion of the industry and commerce of the country
has been forced to circulate, is very likely to bring on the most
dangerous disorders upon the whole body politic."

This is an accurate picture of that country under a system that seeks
to direct the whole energies of its people into one direction, that of
"buying in the cheapest market and selling in the dearest one,"--the