Excerpt from From the Atlantic to the Pacific, Overland: A Series of Letters Mississippi river; but many do not travel, and are now receiving their first impressions. I shall not weary you with detail, but take the trip as I find it, from New York to San Francisco, June 7th, 1865. The New York railroads are not as crowded as they were last season. Too much rain has fallen for corn east Of Syracuse. Many fields must be replanted, with chance not to ripen, or the crop is a failure. Other cereals look finely, and little ...
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Excerpt from From the Atlantic to the Pacific, Overland: A Series of Letters Mississippi river; but many do not travel, and are now receiving their first impressions. I shall not weary you with detail, but take the trip as I find it, from New York to San Francisco, June 7th, 1865. The New York railroads are not as crowded as they were last season. Too much rain has fallen for corn east Of Syracuse. Many fields must be replanted, with chance not to ripen, or the crop is a failure. Other cereals look finely, and little change to Central Michigan. In the vicinity of Rochester, and throughout our richest agricul tural districts, many women may be seen tilling the soil as regular field-hands. I could but remark the contrast between this and when I was a boy, Of the same section. All were then more on a level, and a woman's position was respected. Now, the accumulation of money by the few - an investment in untaxable 7-so's - removes the happy patriot and owner thereof from common sympathy with the masses while the widow's boy, killed in battle, and the high taxes upon calico, brooms, and bonnets, which She is bound to pay, makes her a peasant and a hireling - one of the beauties of war and a national debt. Oh! Dear, deluded people! Did you ever think of European caste, what it means, how it is created, and who it affects? A few years will teach some new political lessons in tln country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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