Capitolo 27
British opinion was centred on two principal threads; before America as a
place for the emigration and, according to, American political ideals and
institutions[10].
The British emigration to America, a governmently the colonization of favoured
lines in front of the American revolution, lost that favours after 1783,
although not for first it definitely opposed. But the emigration still continued
and to any duration, safe during the war of 1812, it was completely it stopped.
Its exact amount is unascertainable for any kept Government,
suitable statistics in front of 1820. With the end of the Napoleonic wars
there great anguish entered England from which you/they looked for the men of energy
escape. He naturally turned him to America, while being being familiarized, from gossip to
the less, with histories of the ease to earn there a maintenance, and
influenced by the knowledge that in the United States he would find
people of his really blood and discourse. The mass of this first emigration
to America it was the result of economic causes. When, in 1825, one energetic
Member of Parliament, induced Wilmot Horton the Government to name a
committee to investigate the whole subject, the result was a mass of
testimony, guaranteed from returned emigrants or from their house of letters,
in that it continually appeared there a principal matter that influences the
type of labourer of emigrant; he found the good wages, and he was provisioned, as a
hand of farm, with the good food. Repeatedly he testifies that he had "three
meals of meat one day", while in England he had ordinarily received but one
such meal a week.
Good mere way of living was the principal allurement for the type of labourer of
emigrant and the knowledge of so living it created for this type
remaining in England a kind of halo of around of industrial prosperity
America. But there was a second testimony revealed by Horton
Committee, less general still to be select here on and there as evidence
of another matter for the emigration to America. The labourer didn't do