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356. There are very few really ignorant men in
America of native growth. Every farmer is more or less of
a reader . There is no brogue , no provincial dialect . No
class like that which the French call peasantry , and which
degrading appellation the miscreant spawn of the Funds
have, of late years, applied to the whole mass of the
most useful of the people in England, those who do the
work and fight the battles. And, as to the men, who
would naturally form your acquaintances, they, I know
from experience, are as kind, frank, and sensible men as
are, on the general run, to be found in England, even with
the power of selection. They are all well-informed; modest
without shyness; always free to communicate what they
know, and never ashamed to acknowledge that they have
yet to learn. You never hear them boast of their
possessions, and you never hear them complaining of