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4321. LABORERS, English aristocracy and.—

In the hands of the[English] aristocracy,
the paupers are used as tools to maintain
their own wretchedness, and to keep
down the laboring portion by shooting them
whenever the desperation produced by the
cravings of their stomachs drives them into
riots. Such is the happiness of scientific England.—
To Thomas Cooper. Washington ed. vi, 377.
(M. 1814)