The Goodhue volunteer., 1862-07-02
TAOLLOPE ON AMERT-
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book on America. Her son, the nov:
elist. Mr.. Anthony Trollope, had long
thought of writing work about the
United States. Last year he visited
us for the purpose, and extended his
travels to Minnesota, where he spent
considerable time principally in the
country. The New York Eveniny
Post makes many extracts from the
proof sheets Of his book, but we have
only room from the following. Here
is Mr.. Trollope's sketch Of the
WESTERN PIONEER FARMER.
But yet this man has his romance,
his high poetic feeling, and above ali
his manly dignity. Visit him and you
will find him without coat or waist
coat, unshorn, in ragged blue trousers
and old flannel shirt, too often bearing
on bis lantern jaws the signs of ague.
and sickness; but he will stand up,
right before you and speak to you
with all the ease Of q lettcred gentle.
man in his own library. All the odius
lnclvility Of the republican servan,
has ben banlshed. lie is his own mas.
ter, standing on his own threshold, and
finds no need to assert his equality by
rudeness. He is delighted to see YOU
and bids you sit down on his battered
bench without dreaming OF any such
apology as an English cotter offers te
u Lady Bountiful when she calls.
lie has worked out his independence
and shows it in every easy movement
Of his body. lie tells yon of it uncon
sclously in every ton: Of his voice.
You will always find in his cabin some
newspapers, some books, some token:
OF advance in education. When he
questions you about the old country
he astonishes you by the extent of hi:
knowledge. l defy you not to fec
that he is superior to the race from
whence he has sprung in England o,
in Ireland. TO me, l confess that the
manliness ofsuch a man is very charm
ing liz is dirty and perhaps squalil
Ills children are sick and he is with,
out comforts. Ills wife is pale, am
you think you see shortness of lif.
written in the faces Of all the family
But over and above it there is an in
dependence which sits gracefully or
their shoulders, and teaches you a,
the first glance that the man has q
right to assume himself to be YOU,
equal.
1t is quite noticeable that whencve,
Nlr. Trollope makes a direct compari
son between the Englishman and the
American, i'll nine cases out Of ten il
is in favor Of the latter. He in
deed assumes that the Englishmal
or Englishwoman, with a eompe
tent income and an assured place i,
society, is better and better off tina,
anybody else in the world. But whe,
1t comes to the great masses, the Gas,
is quite the reverse. Here are q few
passages,ta taken almost at random from
quite different parts of his work:
The one thing i'll which, as far a
my judgement goes, the people of tn,
United States excell us Englishmen
SO as to justify them in taking to them
selves praise which we cannot take t
ourselves, or refuse to them, is th'
matter Of education, =
and unrivalled population, wealtl
and intelligence have been the results
and with these, looking at the Who'll
mass of the people, think am jus
Titled in saying-unrivalled comfor
and happiness. It is not that you m
|reader, to whom in this matter Of edu
Ication fortune aud your parents hav
'|probably been bountiful, would hav
been more happy in New York tha
London. 1t is no. that I, who, at lea<
lean read and write, have caused t
wish myself an American. But il
this: if, you and can count up in
day all those on whom our eyes ma
'rcst, and learn the circumstances {
their lives, we shall be driven to con
Iclude that nine tenths Of tha. numbe
would have had better life as Amer
Icans than they can have in the
|spheres as Enslishmen. sz< ass
II man can forge. his own miserit
IN his journeyiugs, and think Of Il
lpeople he comes to see rather than
himself, I thiuk he will End himse
driven to admit that education b:
made life for the. million in The nortl
!. ern States better than life for the mi
ION is with Us. 81 Eaes.sss..ts, ~ .a5ssg =.
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