I have never seen misery exceed what I have witnessed in an American cottage where disease has entered.
*( About a shilling a gallon is the retail price of good (whiskey.

If bought wholesale, or of inferior quality, it (is much cheaper.
But if the condition of the labourer be not superior to that of the English peasant, that of his wife and daughters is incomparably worse.

It is they who are indeed the slaves of the soil.

One has but to look at the wife of an American cottager, and ask her age, to be convinced that the life she leads is one of hardship, privation, and labour.

It is rare to see a woman in this station who has reached the age of thirty, without losing every trace of youth and beauty.