The Sun.
London, England, 1869-09-08 00:00:00

AN ENGLISH WORKING-MAN ON AMERICA.

No. 2 of Mr. Coningsby's series of letters to the
Spectator was published last week, and is a paper
of much interest. The opinions of a man so intelli-
gent on the press of both countries, and on the dif-
ferent classes of society, are entitled to respect, and
they are evidently genuine. I n news, be bolds the
American papers to be superior to those of Eng-
land; but .inferior in their comments and discus-
sion of the topics of the day. While admitting
this, we maintain the admirable character of the
reports furnished to the American press in such full
detail, gathered at such expense, and on questions
of much interest; we mean such instanc 's as that
just now furnished by the Times through its special
cownis.sioner to inquire into the Irish Land Question,
and these, together with the comprehensive sum-
mary of news, in our opinion, give the leading
papers of New York the highest place in journalism.
But there is a press of which we know nothing,
alluded to by Mr. Coningsby—low, obacene, scurri-
lous prints, largely published and cheaply sold—
which tend to much demoralization in all, but more
in the class above the working-men, and of these
papers Mr. Coningsby speaks in terms of strong
censure. The American workmen generally, ho
pronounces to be much more religious than their
fellows in England ; indeed he broadly states that
there is little or no religion among these classes in
England, and he asks whether an excursion train
would be filled by the inducement he once saw
advertised in New York that the excursionists could
hear two sermons and be back in time. When
travelling westward, the cars, being filled with
rough-bearded men armed to the teeth, the hunters
keeping their hands in by shooting prairie dogs from
the windows, a clergyman entered, and said,
" Ladies and gentlemen, silence for the Word of
God." Instantly every head was uncovered, and
though he scanned the faces attentively, during the
prayers and psalm-singing, all looked serious and
reverent, without an approach to the sheepish. half-
ashamed look he would have detected among an
English congregation so caught. Religion is seen
in the innumerable churches, in the way •in
which all earnest and good sects thrive, and
equally pervades society through every grade
of rich and poor. The feature which most
surprised Mr.. Coningaby was the power of
listening displayed by the Americans. He was all
the more astonished at their endurance in this re-
spect, as he had left England under the impression
that they were essentially a talking community,
instead of which he found them to be a listening
community. They go any distance to a lecture ;
they will sit for hours listening to a speech or a ser-
mon, and in conversation he always found any num-
ber of Americans ready to listen as long as he had
anything to say worth listening to. Another error
he corrected by actual contact with the people was
the nature of their speeches. lie expected them
to launch into " highfaluten," that they would de-
nounce in buncombe, and soar into spread-eagleism.
Instead of this, he found the speeches' similar to
those he would have heard in England, in subject
and in treatment, but, on the whole, more fluently
delivered. In no case did he find the orator run into
greater extravagance, if as great, as would have been
called forth by the same subject in Great Britain,

and although he met with men whoassertedAmerica
to be a paradise on earth, and the institutions of the
United States to be Heaven-sent, they did not ex-
ceed in number those he would have come across in
his own country. His letters promise to be worthy
of extensive circulation in America as well as in
England, which they are assured by the columns of
the Spectator.

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