On the other hand, reverse this picture, and what is the consequence?
Just what is here visible.
There is a man who may be sent adrift on the shortest notice, unless he is base enough to trade upon his principles and vote against his conscience.

What interest has he in the soil, or in the prosperity of his landlord?
If he make improvements this year, he may see the landlord derive all the advantages of them the next; or, what is quite as likely, he may know that some Valentine M'Clutchy may put them in his own pocket, and keep the landlord in the dark regarding the whole transaction.

What a bounty on dishonesty and knavery in an agent is this?
How unjust to the interest of the tenant, in the first place--in the next to that of the landlord--and, finally, how destructive to the very nature and properties of the soil itself, which rapidly degenerates by bad and negligent culture, and.

consequently becomes impoverished and diminished in value.

All this was evident as we went along.