The Schedules of Goods thus shipped afford amusing evidence of what were officially considered as Army Stores : they clearly show, also, the relative weight of morality and immorality, whenever the profits of trade are considered, and how vastly more the Profit and Loss Accounts, on their respective Ledgers, will influence the morals and the religion and the doings of " Men in Bnsi- "ness," Merchants and others, than anything which their Mothers have taught them, anything which their Bibles have presented to their consideration, or anything which their consciences have brought before them.

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sion of the foreign trade, by the experimental action of the first Continental Congress, must have been as disastrous to the great body of the inhabitants-- those possessing small Estates as well as the Tradesmen and Mechanics and Workingmen, of every lowly class -- as that much written-of Port Bill, imposed by the retributive action of the King and the Parliament of Great Britain, had produced on the similar classes who had inhabited the Town of Boston, in the preceding year ; but the men of New York and their dependent families had endured whatever of hardships there had been in the suspension of their respective means of support, without those outcries, nominally of assumed distress among "the suffering inhabitants" -- more loudly uttered by demagogues, for other purposes, than by those who were really sufferers, praying for relief -- which had distinguished Boston, a few months previously, and which had induced the tenderhearted, the world over, to become politicians and to reprobate the Home Government by whom the Port Bill had been imposed ; to sympathize with those who were said to have been "suffering," although the latter could have found remunerative laborelsewherethan in Boston ; and to contribute the means which were really expended, very largely, more for the benefit of the taxpayers than for that of the " suffering poor " of the Town.