continue to exist without causing any fatal calamity.

An Early Victorian Mother Shipton.

But the time will come when New England will be as thickly
settled as Old England. Wages will be as low, and will
fluctuate as much with you as with us. You will have your
Manchesters and Birminghams; and in those Manchesters and
Birminghams hundreds and thousands of artisans will
sometimes be out of work.

Then your institutions will be fairly brought to the test.
Distress everywhere makes the laborer mutinous and
discontented, and inclines him to listen with eagerness to
agitators, who tell him that it is a monstrous iniquity that
one man should have a million while another cannot get a
full meal.

In bad years there is plenty of grumbling here, and
sometimes a little rioting; but it matters little, for here
the sufferers are not the rulers. The supreme power is in
the hands of a class, numerous indeed, but select--of an
educated class--of a class which is, and knows itself to be,
deeply interested in the security of property and the
maintenance of order.

Restraining the Discontented Majority.

Accordingly the malcontents are gently but firmly
restrained. The bad time is got over without robbing the
wealthy to relieve the indigent. The springs of national
prosperity soon begin to flow again; work is plentiful,
wages rise, and all is tranquillity and cheerfulness.

I have seen England pass, three or four times, through such
critical seasons as I have described. Through such seasons
the United States will have to pass in the course of the
next century, if not of this. How will you pass through
them? I heartily wish you good deliverance; but my reason
and my wishes are at war, and I cannot help foreboding the
worst.

It is quite plain that your government will never be able to
restrain a distressed and discontented majority. For, with
you, the majority is the government, and has the rich, who
are always in the minority, absolutely at its mercy.

The day will come when, in the State of New York, a
multitude of people, none of whom has had more than half a
breakfast, or expects to have more than half a dinner, will
choose a Legislature. Is it possible to doubt what sort of a
Legislature will be chosen?

Statesman and Demagogue.

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