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of the New World are throwing an ominous shadow 

 across the Old World and are affecting some of its hab- 

 its and practices. But over and above and beyond all 

 these, the free thought, the liberty of action, the calm 

 independence and the sense of the dignity of man as 

 man, and the perfect equality of all before the law and 

 in the eye of the constitution now existing in America, 

 are developing a race of men who, through correspond- 

 ence with home relations, the intercourse of free travel, 

 the transaction of business, and the free, outspoken 

 language of the press, are gradually disintegrating the 

 yet strong conservative forces of European society, and 

 thus preparing the downfall of the monarchical, aristo- 

 cratic, military, and ecclesiastic systems which shackle 

 and strangle the people of the Old World. These 

 thoughts seem to me to convey the meaning of the 

 great exodus now going on, and he is a wise statesman 

 who reads the lesson aright." 



There's a man after my own heart. He grasps the 

 subject. 



The editor tells one of the several causes of tlie 

 exodus which is embracing many of the most valuable 

 citizens of the old lands where class distinctions still 

 linger. Man longs not only to be free but to be equal, 

 if he has much manhood in him ; and that America is 

 the home for such men, numbers of the best are fast 

 finding out. But England will soon march forward ; 

 she is not going to rest behind very long. There will 



