... other hand, the abundance and variety of the productions of America, the materials of manufactures, navigation and commerce; the vast demand and consumption in America of the manufactures of Europe, ... fraud and violence, to shake off all the limitations of their power; it is the same that has A Collection of State-Papers, Relative to by John Adams 36 always stimulated the common people to aspire ... consequences of these establishments we see and feel every day. A native of America who cannot read and write, is as rare an appearance as a Jacobite, or a Roman Catholic, i e as rare as a comet or an earthquake....