We are all of us too apt, in the first place, to look up to the rich, but to look down upon the poor.

We are apt to court the good will of the former, when we seem to care very little even whether we offend the latter.

The rich themselves and the middle classes of men respect the rich more than the poor; and the poor show more respect to the rich than to one another.

Hence it is possible; that a poor man may find more reluctance in entering the doors of a rich man to admonish him, than one who is rich to enter the doors of the poor for the same purpose, men, again, though they may be equally good, may not have all the same strength of character.

Some overseers may be more timid than others, and this timidity may operate upon them more in the execution of their duty upon one class of individuals, than upon another.