20 AX AXERICAX FARMER IX EXGLAXD. 



sooner trust the safety of a woman or child in a time of peril. 

 The great fault of the man is his terrific and uncontrollable indig- 

 nation at any thing which seems to him mean or unjust, and his 

 judgment or insight of narrow-mindedness is not trustworthy. 



He has formed a strong friendship, or cronyship, for an Eng- 

 lishman on board, who is a man of about the same native intelli- 

 gence, but a strange contrast to him in manner, appearance, and 

 opinions, being short, thick-set, slow of speech, and husky-voiced. 

 He is a stone-cutter by trade, and returns to England because, as 

 he says, there is no demand for so fine work as he is able to do, 

 in America, and he will be better paid in London. These two 

 men are always together, and always quarreling. Indeed, the 

 Englishman has, with his slowness and obstinate deafness to 

 reason on any matter that he has once stated his views of, an 

 endless battery of logic and banterings to reply to, for he is the 

 only defender of an aristocratic form of government amongst us ; 

 every other man, Irish, Scotch, or English, being a thorough- 

 going, violent, radical democrat. Most of them, indeed, claim 

 the name of red republican, and carry their ideas of " liberty " 

 far beyond any native American I have known. What is more 

 remarkable and painful, nearly all of them, except the Irish, are 

 professedly Deists or Atheists, or something of the sort, for all 

 their ideas are evidently most crude and confused upon the sub- 

 ject, and amount to nothing but pity, hatred, or contempt for all 

 religious people, as either fools or hypocrites, impostors or imposed 

 upon. There is only one of them who seems to have ever thought 

 upon the matter at all carefully, or to be able to argue upon it, 

 and he is so self-satisfied (precisely what he says, by the way, of 

 every one who argues against him), that he never stops 'arguing, 

 while a hearer remains. 



A remark of one of the farmers, an Englishman, and a very 

 sensible fellow, upon these sentiments so generally held among 



