3945. INDUSTRY, Fruits of.—[further continued] .
The Republican party believed
that men, enjoying in ease and security
the full fruits of their own industry, enlisted
by all their interests on the side of law and
order, habituated to think for themselves, and
to follow their reason as their guide, would
be more easily and safely governed, than with
minds nourished in error, and vitiated and
debased, as in Europe, by ignorance, indigence
and oppression.—
To William Johnson. Washington ed. vii, 292.
Ford ed., x, 227.
(M.
1823)
