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ever. Never, never more shall we behold that generous
loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that
dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart,
which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an
exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap
defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and
heroic enterprise, is gone! It is gone, that sensibility of
principle, that charity of honor, which felt a stain like a
wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity,
which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice
itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
And here is William Cobbett, the cool Saxon, in his A
Years’ Residence in America (1795) recording his amazement
at the new kind of man made there by print culture: