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apple-roaster, for that they do very well, would never 

 have recovered the end of his nose from its distortion of 

 disgust, so shocked was he at the startling announce 

 ment of " the trail." I advise all travellers to New York 

 to go to the Clarendon Hotel ; it is clean and generous, 

 attentive and good, and cannot be surpassed by any 

 hotel, all things considered, that I ever had the pleasure 

 of being in. The charges for room and eating are suf 

 ficiently moderate for the comfort enjoyed, and I was 

 surprised at the price that was demanded, until I cast 

 my eye over the cost of wine. That was infinitely 

 dearer than in England, the wine no better, and oftener 

 not so good, and of course that made very well up for 

 the moderate suffering imposed for other things. The 

 servants, male and female, in the hotel indeed, it is the 

 case throughout America were mostly Irish ; it is, and 

 one not far-off day will terribly be, the curse of that 

 splendid New World, that its own native hands are too 

 democratically set up or foolishly and proudly insane to 

 earn their honest livelihood by the fair and highly re 

 munerative employment offered by their own country ! 

 What a lesson that ought to be to those English democrats 

 and selfishly-prominent demagogues as to the boasted 

 " blessings of universal suffrage," and what they call the 

 " popular rights " of mankind. The old adage of the 

 " beggar on horseback" is not inapplicable to the state 

 of things a view of what ought to have been the labour 

 ing classes in America afforded me, and in my opinion 

 the true interests of a country cannot be long maintained 

 when all are masters and none are men ; and a majority 

 returned to Congress not by the wealth and intelligence 

 of ^ the nation, but by the houseless and ignorantly des 

 potic, desperate and wandering class a coercion exercised 



