FOR ENGLISH IMMIGRANTS. 1 5 



The English farm laborer, accustomed to earn a very scanty pittance 

 at home by daily labor, not having enjoyed the advantages of much 

 early education, and having probably been trained on the farm to one 

 special kind of labor only, may perhaps find it more difficult than will 

 the capitalist or the renter to adapt himself to the new conditions of this 

 country. But if he is a man of good common sense and morals, and is 

 not too old to learn, and is willing to be taught, he may very greatly 

 improve his own condition here, and leave his children the patrimony 

 of an improved social position, obtained by improved early education 

 and an increase of his worldly goods. If he has no capital but his 

 ability to labor and the farm training he has received, he may readily 

 find profitable employment on the richer lands of the State in taking 

 charge of live stock and in the common work of the farm ; or, if he be 

 a trustworthy man and a good farmer, he may either rent land or culti- 

 vate on the shares. It is true he may be obliged to give up some of 

 his old time-honored habits and customs, and learn to do many things 

 he never was required to do at home; but he will soon find, if he is not 

 too intensely wedded to the old notions peculiar to his own country, that 

 he is more than doubly paid for the change by the greater advantages 

 and profits of his new situation. His daily beer, considered a sine qua 

 non by the English farm laborer, may not at all times be at hand for 

 him here, but his daily ample meal of meat will soon enable him to 

 forget its absence ; and moreover, he may find his head clearer and his 

 body more healthy and strong under the daily meat diet than with the 

 daily use of malt liquor. But, above all other considerations, we would 

 place that of his ability to greatly improve the condition of his family, 

 and to leave his children citizens of a republic in which labor is honor- 

 able and all men equal in their civil and political rights. 



