412 TRAVELS THROUGH LOWER CANADA: 
iety respecting the future success of a family. 
* c There is little fault to find with the govern- 
merit of America, that is, of the United 
.States, either in principle or practice. There 
are few' taxes to pay, and those are of 
acknowledged necessity, and moderate in 
amount. There are no animosities about re- 
ligion, and it is a subject about which few 
ce questions are asked ; there are few respecting 
political men or political measures ; the prc<- 
sent irritation of me ids minds in Great Bri- 
** tain, and the discordant state of society on 
political accounts, is not known there. 
4C The government is the government of the 
people, and for the people. There are ho 
ty flies, nor game laws ; and excise laws, upon 
ce spirits only, and similar to the British only in 
name. There are no great men of rank, nor 
“ many of great riches ; nor have the rich the 
cc power of oppressing the less rich, for poverty 
is almost unknown; nor are the streets 
crowded with beggars. You see ne where 
the disgusting and melancholy contrast, so 
common in Europe, of vice and filth, and 
rags and wretchedness, in the immediate 
neighbourhood of the most wanton extrava- 
gance, and the most useless and luxurious pa- 
rade; nor are the common people so de~ 
praved as in Great Britain. Quarrels are 
uncommon, and boxing matches unknown 
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