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journalists, who, in the eagerness to be first, make no 

 distinction between the two modes of attaining the lead, 

 and allow themselves, and encourage others, to rejoice 

 as much and as openly at the idea of our fall as of their 

 own industrial and meritorious rise. But surely a 

 respectable journalist ought not to lend himself to the 

 encouragement of feelings which, from the constitution of 

 our nature, are of themselves so ready to rise up as to 

 demand the most earnest repression in the minds of all. 



For my own part, I must say, that all I know of 

 England, and have seen of the United States, has led 

 me to a totally different conclusion from that of the 

 Illustrated News. I neither believe that there are as yet 

 any signs of political decay in England, though social evils 

 we have enough, nor that the rise of America is to prove 

 in any way a harbinger of the fall of British power and 

 greatness. I believe we have hitherto grown together. 

 The same years of this century which saw New York 

 and Philadelphia start forward with new vigour, saw a 

 new life also spring up in Liverpool and Glasgow and 

 Birmingham. The opening which the New World 

 affords for the emigration of our poorer classes is a relief 

 to us. The markets of Great Britain have not been 

 straitened by the growth of the United States. On the 

 contrary they have been enlarged, because, though pro 

 ceeding, as they ought to do, in manufacturing at home, 

 they do not produce enough of almost any manufactured 

 article for their own consumption, and thus they are not 

 on the whole lessening the demand for our manufactures. 

 Then, as to mechanical discoveries and contrivances, they 

 start with all the knowledge of our workshops, accumu 

 lated and perfected during hundreds of years, and the 

 further improvements we daily make are daily imparted 

 to them. But they must in future do the same to us ; 

 and if there be as good blood still left at home as we have 

 sent to them, great benefits only must ensue to both, as 



