Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from English Farming: An Address Delivered Before the New York State Agricultural Society, at Its Annual Meeting at Albany, February 13th, 1867
The distinction in classes is very strongly marked. An American can scarcely understand the servility that exists in social relations between those occupying different positions in society. It seemed curious to see men in the middle and lower classes advocating with such persistency the claims of an aristocracy, which they could never hope to reach, and at the same time insisting upon an im passable barrier between themselves and the classes below.
Wealth is almost unbounded in England, and there is no coun try Where poverty has sharper pangs. There is immense wealth among the middle and commercial classes. Some of the mer chants and provision dealers are princes in their way. The peas autry are poor, ignorant, stupid, and their condition in many respects is most deplorable. They often have good substantial cot tages, some of them highly ornamental, because the landlord would be ashamed to have squalid poverty exposed and traced to neglect on his part. Many of these working men would be glad to emigrate, but never expect to get money enough ahead for that purpose. They live a hopeless life, and too frequently spend of their little earnings at the alehouses. They often besought me in the most touching manner to send them out to America, promis ing to serve me faithfully.
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