SOO Arrogant Deportment to Inferiors 



mand the notice of their superiors, have been 

 considered by their lordly oppressors as beings 

 of an inferior race \ and in the arrogance of this 

 assumed pre-eminence, the common people are 

 treated like creatures of a subordinate species. 

 When the elevated situation of the one class, 

 and the depressed condition of the other, are 

 justly considered when the former, by riches 

 only, is placed so far above that step to which 

 human pretensions in rags are suffered to ap- 

 proach, as entirely to destroy all the connexion 

 and all the interest which humanity has ordain- 

 ed should have existence between man and 

 man ; it ceases to be a paradox that these in- 

 dignities should be submitted to, when offered 

 without fear of resistance to a people, who, un- 

 protected by the law, and ignorant of benefits 

 to which they are justly entitled, must consider 

 the operation of this derogatory sentiment, and 

 the consequent deportment towards them, as 

 the inherent malady of their community, inca- 

 pable of alleviation by any union of effort, and 

 individually irresistible by themselves. 



Before any material change can be effected, 

 the lower classes of the people must be taught 

 really and in truth to reverence and respect their 

 superiors ; for until this is accomplished, there 

 will be found little inclination to adopt their 



