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Alliance, and the slavery of the whole civilized 

 world. This is the stuff that gives as English 

 men an asylum ; that gives us time to breathe; 

 that enables us to deal our tyrants blows, 

 which, without the existence of this stuff, they 

 never would receive. This America, this scene 

 of happiness under a free government, is the 

 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 whole dollar for his 

 work ; but then it is the work of a whole day* 

 Here is no dispute about hours. " Hours were 

 " made for slaves" 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 re 

 moves so great a cause of disagreement. The 

 American labourers, like the tavern-keepers, 

 ai*e never servile, but always civiL Neither 

 boobishness nor meanness mark their character* 

 They never creep audfawn, 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: 



