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Our language precludes any reference in these remarks to intelligent, virtuous, and industrious emigrants; nor do we fail to appreciate the many high minded and valuable citizens among this class. Neither are we unmindful of the rapid advance of internal improvements from the physical aid of the poor. But the excellence and intelligence and value of a portion, do not avert the danger to be apprehended from the ignorant and vicious; and the good derived from internal improvements can never be an offset for the moral and political evils which threaten our permanent prosperity and liberty.