Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Riches (says a correspondent) accumulated in a hurry, are generally as rapidly dissipated, and in a manner the least beneficial to society. Luxury, idleness and extravagance are their pestilential concomitants. Example spreads like a contagion ; and we have lately seen while money, flowed in upon us, in plenty, from the casual sources opened by the war, that those vices corrupted, in a degree, every rank of people amongst us.

Luxury demanded every thing—The prevailing indolence could afford it no gratification—Lulled to sleep in the lap of pleasure, our vessels bore money to foreign countries for articles to administer to it ; till at length we have awaked to all the distresses consequent on such a conduct. But they are evils which will cure themselves. Necessity creates industry, which already rears its head in the fields of the husbandman, and the work-shop of the mechanic—Oeconomy is opposed to the hard times ; and every man is contracting his expenses, that he may attain to that state of real independence, to owe no man anything—Invention is on the rack to find out new means of procuring subsistence—improvements follow—and the country, which was lately an uncultivated wild, will soon bloom like the rose; and the haunt of beasts become a paradise for men.