What we say is, that, in all the relations of civil life, Her people were shamefully and criminally neglected.

They were left without education, permitted to remain ignorant of the arts of life, and of that industrial knowledge on which, or rather on the application of which, all public prosperity is based.
And yet, although the people have great errors, without which no people so long neglected can ever be found, and, although they have been for centuries familiarized with suffering, yet it is absolute dread of poverty that drives them from their native soil; They understand, in fact, the progress of pauperism too well, and are willing to seek fortune in any clime, rather than abide its approach to themselves--an approach which they know is in their case inevitable and certain.

For instance, the very class of our countrymen that constitutes the great bulk of our emigrants is to be found among those independent small farmers who appear to understand something like comfort.

One of these men holding, say sixteen or eighteen acres, has a family we will suppose of four sons and three daughters.

This family grows up, the eldest son marries, and the father, having no other way to provide for him, sets apart three or four acres of his farm, on which he and his wife settle.
The second comes also to marry, and hopes his father won't treat him worse than he treated his brother.