The New Hampshire Gazette

STATE OF AMERICA.

Mr. Cooper, who has recently emigrated to America from Manchester, together with his family, has written to a friend the following letter:

"What are the general inducements, it may be asked, to people to quit Great Britain for the U. States of America."

"The first and principal inducement to a person to quit England for America is, the total absence of anxiety respecting the future success of a family. There is little fault to find with the government of America, that is of the United States, either in principle or practice. There are few taxes to pay, and those are of acknowledged necessity, and moderate in amount. There are no animosities about religion and it is a subject about which few questions are asked; there are few respecting political measures; the present irritation of men's minds in Great Britain, and the discordant state of society on political accounts, is not known there.—The government is the government of the people, and for the people. There are no tythes nor game laws, and excise laws upon the spirits only, and similar to the British in name. There are no great men of rank, nor many of great riches, nor have the rich the power of oppressing the less rich, for poverty is almost unknown, nor are the streets crowded with beggars. You see no where the disgusting and melancholy contrast, so common as in Europe of vice, and filth, and rags, and wretchedness, in the immediate neighborhood of the most wanton extravagance, and the most useless and luxurious parade; nor are the commonalty so depraved as in Great Britain. Quarrels are uncommon and boxing matches are unknown in the streets. There are no military to keep the people in awe. Robberies are very rare. All these are real advantages; but great as they are, they do not weigh with me so much as the single consideration first mentioned; I mean the total absence of anxiety respecting the future success of a family.—Lon. pap."