The Englishwoman In America By Isabella Lucy Bird
























































































































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The emigrants who have left our shores, more particularly the Irish, have
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The Emigrants Who Have Left Our Shores, More Particularly The Irish, Have Voluntarily Enacted The Part Formerly Assigned To The Slaves Of The Spartans.

Certain it is that their intemperance, with the evils of which the Americans are only too well acquainted, has produced a beneficial result, by causing a strong re-action in favour of temperance principles.

The national oath of the English, which has earned for them abroad a horrible sobriquet, and the execrations which belong to the French, Italian, and Spanish nations, are unfortunately but too well known, because they are too often heard. Indeed, I have scarcely ever travelled in England by coach or railway - I have seldom driven through a crowded street, or ridden on horseback through quiet agricultural villages - without hearing language in direct defiance of the third commandment. Profanity and drunkenness are among the crying sins of the English lower orders. Much has been said upon the subject of swearing in the United States. I can only say that, travelling in them as I have travelled in England, and mixing with people of a much lower class than I ever was thrown among in England - mixing with these people too on terms of perfect equality - I never heard an oath till after I crossed the Canadian frontier. With regard to both these things, of course I only speak of what fell under my own observation.

After dinner, being only too glad to escape from a house where pestilence was rife, we went out into Chicago.

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