The Arkansas banner., 1847-07-05
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 ia letter from Scodand, which we 6nd in a late number of the T5i5sme,--{a most aimirable letter, by the way, as our rea1ers wiA see by ahe quality of the exsEaefa, s--we Esd our own ebservasipa of the sama mss- tsrs 70 e.snpsessiy Sen6rned, tlssf sps esld them gladly 10 what we have less feliciloasty said with the same iaseHi :--
 The Englishmea's general xlea of the Uni- ted States is that the people are in q rude stale oF semi barbarisn: with no social re fnemeni, and little intellectual enlture; a mere money-deiving, grave digging, Iean, Iaak, generation of Yankees, worshipping but one God, and he Msmmon, ready al : moments notice 10 whip all creation, and rather than not fight al all to have to0eh of mob law to keep his hsnd in; in fine, n poor, degenerate. oH-shoot from aotis stock,) Irving straggling, struggling, weedy sori of life. and destined, some of these old days, to disappear bv sudden rot, Ike Psd- dy's potato. This fs Mr Bulls pretty sol- ernn eonsicuon--mos, unsolemaiy Iransiated into plain English--of he s-Gniversal Yan- kee Nstion.n
 During the lssi nine monihs have been travelling over this realm, visiting nxty ol iis cities, towns, and villages, and having abundant means of foraring intelligent opien ions, and know do not exaxserase why, state that If yoa--you. Mr. Horace Grceles -ia yoar travels throughout the Free Stntes Of America, should you come upon town where people were in no better eondiiion than the people of the mosf hourishing agri- cal,Dral or manufacturing town in Great Brit ain. the sighi of such place, smoog the towns of America, would ximost break vour heart You would in such an instance, ind a town whose professional men woald scoEn 10 be thought the social equals ef ifs trsdss- men; whose tradesmen would lock with the same seofn upon its mechanics. she@e me ehanies would despise I.s lisersed sersaais ; whose hveried servants would despi&e itz agricultural iaborers and whose sgrSculinral laborers would only ial fo look down upon some other class because ihemselses were al shs bottom of the ladder Yos would ind the mechanics, lsSorers. and serxauis-- wiih fes exceptions -exeeedineiy eoarss snd is norsni, and moreover, hasiig nes tho siishi- est sspiralion for any highex stzse.
 Take fof fnstsBce, the AgEienlisssl Labor CTS Of Great Britain: the men and woEien whose toil have made this coantry the heau- tsfal sarssea thss is is. and every oDeof whea is entitled, therefore, sceorling ao fhe eoEs- monesi law of qsid pro 4ss, so hsss ashars in pleasant lisils eoEizgs and gsrdsn la0k at these toil hAreszsa peopas, and what is their condision PkysiGsily, they arc worse o6 II say afisr aa sbandsnt opportunity se indeeJ than the slaves of Amesica; anosaily and intellectually, they are bat lifile better and socially they are almest as bsd. Theil average earnings do not exceed nine shiIiiaxs tsseriingg per week. ses hundreds of 70 men hard q wosk ia ths 6xids of SeokIsnd jass nov, vko earn bss sshiIling day, se dr which some of them have b cone ionr bare foot journey frDn tAe nighlsnds. Aa for their soeiAi condition. Bsitish fasnel would be ss much shocked st she i6ea q sitting al neat with one cT hs iabosess, ss Soafk<rn planter wish one of his aeTrees Why Because they are ses of boass One sees the woman hers n Scotland bols nssiess- shceiess, trudging to snd from thl fieids, ,-snd whefssn fhey srs sh0se the ax sn and the males, beeenrs psohiexn The thing is ss bsd sn EAgisnd; snd in Ire land wors<. Their honses- --if so shsy mus bs ealled-ars wrstchsd hoseIs wAsss assrner eifsi saas-s wosld, ia many snss,aces, sAisl fwire b<fore hcssing s1his bssss''
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