PRICES OF LAND, LABOUR, 



England of withholding from him his pittance of prize money ! 

 Ought not such a vile, robbing, murderous system to be 

 destroyed ? 



319. Of the same active, hardy, and brave stuff, too, was com 

 posed the army of JACKSON, who drove the invaders into the 

 Gulph of Mexico, and who would have driven into the same 

 Gulph the army of Waterloo, and the heroic gentleman, too, 

 who lent his hand to the murder of Marshal Ney. This is the 

 stuff that stands between the rascals, called the Holy Alliance, 

 and the slavery of the whole civilized world. This is the stuff 

 that gives us Englishmen an asylum ; that gives us time to 

 breathe ; that enables us to deal our tyrants blows, which, with 

 out the existence of this stuff, they never would receive. This 

 America, this scene of happiness under a free government, is the 



&amp;gt;beam in the eye, the thorn in the side, the worm in the vitals, of 

 every despot upon the face of the earth. 



320. An American labourer is not regulated, as to time, by 

 clocks and watches. The sun, who seldom hides his face, tells him 

 when to begin in the morning and when to leave off at night. 

 He has a dollar, a zvkole dollar for his work ; but then it is the 

 work of a whole day. Here is no dispute about hours. &quot; Hours 

 &quot; were made for slaves,&quot; is an old saying ; and, really, they seem 

 here to act upon it as a practical maxim. This is a great thing 

 in agricultural affairs. It prevents so many disputes. It removes 

 so great a cause of disagreement. The American labourers, like 

 the tavern-keepers, are never servile, but always civil. Neither 

 boobishness nor meanness mark their character. They never creep 

 and fawn, and are never rude. Employed about your house as 

 day-labourers, they never come to interlope for victuals or drink. 

 They have no idea of such a thing : Their pride would restrain 

 them if their plenty did not ; and, thus would it be with all 

 labourers, in all countries, were they left to enjoy the fair produce 

 of their labour. Full pocket or empty pocket, these American 

 labourers are always the same men ; no saucy cunning in the one 

 case, and no base crawling in the other. This, too, arises from 

 the free institutions of government. A man has a voice because 

 he is a man, and not because he is the possessor of money. And, 

 shall I never see our English labourers in this happy state ? 



321. Let those English farmers, who love to see a poor wretched 

 labourer stand trembling before them with his hat off, and who 

 think no more of him than of a dog, remain where they are ; or, 

 go off, on the cavalry horses, to the devil at once, if they wish to 

 avoid the tax-gatherer ; for, they would, here, meet with so many 

 mortifications, that they would, to a certainty, hang themselves 

 in a month. 



322. There are some, and even many, farmers, who do not 

 work themselves in the fields. But, they all attend to the thing, and 



re all equally civil to their working people. They manage their 



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