this crisis, a man in comfortable circumstances, who had a large stock of flour on hand, gave out that he would sell it only to the poor, in small quantities, and at no advance of price; and disposed in this way of his whole stock. He was not one of those who can sit down contented in the midst of starvation, quieting the faithful summons of conscience with stale maxims of political economy. Be his name blessed, though we dare not mention it here!

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