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Within the last twelve months the whole country are become monopolizers the desire of realizing has so possessed all degrees of people, that there is scarcely an article of consumption which is not bought up and secreted.
"These are the monopolizers of the riches of the soil, who will not suffer us to purchase a little comfort for our old age."
They formed themselves into classes, like our collegians, and these appointed persons to sell it to those who wished for it; and each member of the class shared his proportion of the profits. This answered a very good purpose; it checked the monopolizers and muckworms that infested our ship, and fattened on our wastefulness.
If indeed the good graces of fortune would but have kept pace with his expectations, England would not have afforded a more flourishing or gallant yeoman. But, like monopolizers in general, he was apt to speculate a little too deeply. Eager to enjoy, he was impatient to obtain the means of enjoyment.
To Reed he wrote in December, 1778: "It gives me sincere pleasure to find that there is likely to be a coalition of the Whigs in your State, a few only excepted, and that the assembly is so well disposed to second your endeavors in bringing those murderers of our cause, the monopolizers, forestallers, and engrossers, to condign punishment.
"Infamous legislators, vile scoundrels, monsters athirst for gold and blood, you traffic with the monarch, with our fortunes, with our rights, with our liberties, with our lives!" "The second legislative corps is no less rotten than the first one." In the Convention, Roland, "the officious Gilles and the forger Pasquin, is the infamous head of the monopolizers."
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