Kentucky. It is also true, that there is more poverty and pauperism, in proportion to the population; and more taxation, in proportion to her aggregate wealth and improvements, than there is in Kentucky. This fact will hold good in comparing any town, city, and manufacturing population, with that of the peaceful inhabitants of the country engaged m the healthful, ennobling, and life-giving pursuits of agriculture, horticulture, &c. Towns, cities, and manufacturing districts, are the hot-beds of vice, misery, pauperism, and degradation. It is there the extremes of wealth and poverty meet; it is there that corruption and human wretchedness are presented in their most loathsome forms.[1] Says Coleman, in his most estimable work on Agriculture: —
"The great cause of the evils which afflict humanity, and the multiplication of crime, and the disorders of society, he attributes to the fact, that 'the cultivation of the earth is deserted, and innumerable multitudes pour
- ↑ "They now find it staring them in the face, from the reports of their own officers, that there is an amount of degradation (shameless and incurable, because beginning with the beginning of life,) existing within one city's (New York) limits, greater than can be gathered in the whole population of the slaveholding States." "In the slave States of this country, there is less of it than any where else in the world. In fact, there is no such things as poverty, want, and starvation, among the slaves. Such degradation and misery as are pictured in the report of the Chief of our Police, cannot exist in a Southern city." "It is to be hoped, now that those philanthropists know how miserable and degraded New York is — and all large free cities are equally bad — they will turn their attention to the work of making it better, before they make Charleston, Savannah, Mobile, and New Orleans worse." — New York Day Book.
