Part 6 (1/2)
_11th Residence_--An erant requires at the least twelvelawyers, land speculators, and swindlers
_12th Grazing and stall-feeding cattle for e with a capital of 4,000 dollars, and hat is of , for without such knowledge the noble would soon be reduced to nine-pence A twelve months' residence is, therefore, indispensably necessary, for without being fully initiated in the diabolical arts of _lying out_, _swearing out_, _swindling out_, and _thieving out_, ruin is inevitable
_13th Society_--There is none for an Englishman of the old school, ould scorn to tell a lie, or see his fellow man in want
_14th Happiness_--Must be found in your own family; the fruits of your farovernment of the United States continues as at present, you will be secured in that happiness
{442} _15th_--One ot, which I must not omit to mention, as you most likely will be asked questions on the subject by lish husbandiven at this tilish money, and found in provision and bad whiskey
_2nd Working hours_--Fro does the harvest last?_--About three weeks
_4th Is it wares from 86 to 120 It is impossible to have a just idea of it without actual experience And, what is of lish husbandman would be more _debilitated_ in _three years_ in the United States, than in _sixteen years_ in England
_5th How long in the year can labour be procured?_--About six ularly?_--Very rarely Mostly defrauded
_7th Then who are the persons that can do?_--A300_l_ sterling, and who should reside twelve reatly to be feared that both the e, and [l]earn to defraud and cheat, as practised {443} here, and entirely forget old English principles and society, or else ruin and misery will be his portion
_8th Mechanics_--Any part of the world before the United States, for, whatever they may earn, they will be sure to be defrauded out of half
_9th Wages_--Not so h
_July 6th_--Visited the house of the President, a good, substantial, pleasant abode, but neither so elegant, superb, nor costly as the seats of our nobility I saw nothing about it reton's; no curiosities, no painted ceilings The walls are covered with French paper, and the rooms are furnished with French furniture
Its front looks over the Potowh a vast extent of Southern Virginian scenery A favourite English butler shewed us all, and regaled us with good biscuit, brandy, and sherry
_7th_--Thisthe Hon Thomas Law, accompanied by Mr Elliott, retted his absence when I called, and invited me to come and spend a day or tith hi the conversation now co words
_Mr Law_--”You, Mr F, saw ravelly hills by carting earth on to thelish labourers sent tobut plough; they were stupid, conceited, uncivil, and latterly drunken; whiskey, and the co I knew not wheat from rye, or rye fro”
”You, Sir, pursue it only for your pleasure?” ”No, Sir, I want profit”
”In the present distressed state of agriculture little profit is to be had” ”Truly so; but a paper circulation is wanted Mr Crawford fully agreed with enuously seceded from it in his report, on which account I have addressed several pointed letters to hiricultural society of Prince George's county”
”On my return horate here?” ”Why, Sir, I cannot answer that question I have never recoration, nor caused any to quit their country; every thing is strange and unsuitable to English farmers and labourers; he can cultivate with success only by slaves” ”Have you, Mr Law, no regrets at having spent so much of your time in this country?” ”No, Sir, none whatever” ”What, Sir, none at the loss of that society which you land?” Here Mr Law hesitated a little as if at a loss for an answer ”Why, {445} Sir, I once with Lord Cornwallis governed India I returned and sawinto commerce, brewers, manufacturers, and merchants, to be cheated; such a course had no attractions for overn and ulti in this country, where I have spentat a loss for amusement I write and read, and talk and visit, on the hbours, hoht; and whenever I please, I can without cereo and talk frequently and freely with the President, Mr Crawford, Calhoun, and all the heads of the government, and therefore I have the best society the land affords”
”But, Sir, there are the honours and eland which _must_ have been yours” ”My wants were then, and have always been, very few I believe I have always been happier than any of my brothers As I never kne to say 'My lord' to any man, I did not seek or want honours or emoluments I saw my family and friends dependant on the funds which are likely soar them and many others; a situation from which I fled” ”What, Mr Law, is likely to reland is over-peopled It is not wholly the fault of the government A famine will be the remedy” ”Could not the surplus population {446} be transported to the colonies?” ”No, Sir A famine is the only ree the country into a dreadful political convulsion and revolution?” ”It is, Sir, but the government is not blameable”
”Morally considered, or with respect to morals, do you not think the population of this country inferior to that of England?” ”The people in the ent You now see the unworthily and meanly, but their poverty and not their will consents As to slaves, they steal” ”And they have a right to steal,” said a third person I answered, ”They, to be sure, have been robbed on a broad scale” ”Why, Sir, the friends of slavery insist on it that slavery is essential to the existence of liberty To what conclusions will they not co in this country?” ”Yes, Sir, ast the masters of blacks?” ”Yes, Sir You, Sir, have visited Mr Birkbeck?” ”I have”
”Is he not a very pleasant, intelligentdollars” ”Had he raised any produce?”
”None” ”Why?” ”He had been, he said, occupied in settling his neighbours, who together with himself have been supplied with provisions from Harmony at 100 per cent, above their value; but cheaper, they have {447} said, than they could have then and there raised the into the wilderness away from market and society, while land is to be had with both What is Har settle one I saw in the wilderness What think you, Mr Law, of the clis at once so hot and cold, I can no friendshi+p hold”