He did not stay long in Newburyport, as a great fire, which burned up a considerable part of the town, destroyed his brother's store, and obliged him to seek employment elsewhere.
One morning in that year there entered the office of the proprietors a young lad from New Hampshire, who stated that he came to seek employment in their service.
The system of workhouses acted well in England, where a sort of slave labour was adopted in them, to force the idle to seek employment elsewhere; but what could be expected from it in Ireland where men worked for twopence per day?
The loss of his first situation, through the bankruptcy of his master, obliged him toseek employment anew in the printing-office of one Mr. Bigg, who was also the editor of a newspaper called the Sunday Monitor.
I knew very well that this step would be bitterly opposed by my aristocratic relations, especially if I should dare to seek employment in New York; therefore, I concluded to give them the slip and hunt a distant home.
We at once left the school and began to seek employment, but in this attempt we were often doomed to disappointment, because we were too young to expect to get situations as clerks, and not strong enough to do much at manual labor.
Above all things I abhor anything like gilded bondage or idle dependence; consequently, I resolved to seek employment.
Those men, driven from their own trade, seek employment in others, when they swell the surplus and bring wages down.
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