Situation and Character of Richmond.--Slavery.--Richmond
Flour.--Inspection Laws.--American Liberty is Liberty of Industry
and Locomotion.--Few Restrictions upon the Interior Trade.--Old
Restrictions upon French Commerce.--Decline of the Foreign Commerce
of France.--Twofold Authority in the United States.--Ancient
Authority, Cæsar.--Duties imposed by Self-Government.--The Authority
of Cæsar could be destroyed in the United States, but not in
Europe.--New Authority by the side of Cæsar.--Canal, School, and Bank
Commissioners; their Powers.--How Industry may flourish in Europe by
the side of Cæsar.--Of American Liberty.--The Liberty of the Yankee
would be intolerable to a Frenchman.--Liberty of the Virginian more
like our own.--Mixture of the two Liberties. 325