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THE REV. DR. FOLLIOTT.
It is the natural result, Mr. Mac Quedy, of that system of state seamanship which your science upholds. Putting the crew on short allowance, and doubling the rations of the officers, is the sure way to make a mutiny on board a ship in distress, Mr. Mac Quedy.
MR. MAC QUEDY.
Eh! sir, I uphold no such system as that. I shall set you right as to cause and effect. Discontent increases with the increase of information.[1] That is all.
- ↑ This looks so like caricature, (a thing abhorrent to our candour,) that we must give authority for it. "We ought to look the evil manfully in the face, and not amuse ourselves with the dreams of fancy. The discontent of the laborers in our times is rather a proof of their superior information than of their deterioration."—Morning Chronicle: December 20, 1830.
