glance
at and be as learned in the condition of his country
and the world as the man of fortune, he replied--"No,
they have something better to do, they attend to their
work." Here lies the rub, and it may be a fear of the
sedition of thought that has put these close hampers
upon the English press. It would seem by such an
argument that the differences of condition are not
induced by unholy oppressions, by the trampling for
ages of one class upon another until servitude became
almost a birth-right--and the law of strength that
proved itself in barbarous times the "Supremacy" had
at last from concession so long made, become the law
of human justice and divine right. The steer may work
under his yoke an appointed time, the slave bow mutely
through his whole life, but the freeman--has he so
fallen, that while the lord revels in his "club-room"
and reads not only papers, but gilt edged and velvet
bound books, he forsooth being a common "poor devil"
not able to enjoy a tithe of his unearned luxury--has
something better than reading to do. Let him dig
then! There are those in the young republic whose
spirit begins to animate the world, who, though they
toil, remember, that it was said in the beginning to
all men, "thou shalt earn thy bread by the sweat of
thy brow," and will read freely as they drink in the
common air, and enjoy the common light. There are
classes in England intelligent no doubt beyond any
other people in the world--classes that enjoy the
means of making themselves so, but as a mass they will
in no-wise compare with their progeny, the
Anglo-Saxons. All that they have here in the main we
have got, and our wits have not been blunted by a
contact with the wilderness, and the difficulties of
founding an empire "in the Woods." I see now more
clearly than ever where our faults lie; contrast
exposes them; but they are all twigs upon the rising
trunk, which the keen knife of national experience,
age, and the calm that must succeed the rush and
tumult of our giant and boisterous infancy will cut
off.--With greater pride than ever, however much I may
like the Old World, and especially England, I look
over the Ocean to America for an exemplification of
what th