10 MR. HAZEN's address. 



eourse, even among their own class, and without concert, it has 

 been easy to maintain unequal laws over them, without much 

 apprehension of resistance. It has therefore been the effect of 

 most political institutions to depress this interest into a state of 

 subordination and vassalage, so that it might be wielded without 

 any will of its own, as the interest or ambition of the more favor- 

 ed class, called the State, should dctate. Such is now the de- 

 based condition of the laboring classes of Europe. Not content 

 in general with drawing from their earnings, what ma^y be requir- 

 ed to support the luxury of their landlords, precautions have 

 been taken to prevent the laborer, though he may sometimes a 

 little influence his condition, from rising above it into another 

 sphere. The laborer has no share of political influence ; no 

 participation of political power, and by the attempt to exercise 

 any, he would in most countries iocur the guilt of treason. 



The same classes which in other governments are thus pro- 

 scribed, are here the depositories of all political power. They 

 are in any sense of fact or theory, the people. On their mor- 

 al and intellectual character depend the honor and prosperity of 

 the nation. These require that their ranks should be full of 

 those who understand the trusts reposed on them, and in those 

 ranks should be found such inducements as will engage the affec- 

 tions, and animate the hopes of youth. They should be able lo 

 discover in them their way to that estimation and respect, of 

 which it should be the object of all education to make them seek 

 to be worthy. When agriculture loses the services of youth, 

 and they desert its fields for other employments, it is as though 

 spring should he struck from the seasons of the year, or should 

 forget to bloom. 



In order to this, the spirit of improvement which is diffusing 

 itself so largely into every other department of life, should in 

 this be animated. If the agricultural products of Europe are 

 now to be met in our own market, the competition must be met 

 with new efforts, or the agriculture of our country will still more 

 decline. 



If the whole population of the Union should be collected up- 

 on New-England, if her commerce and manufactures were then 



