Excerpt from The Chainbearer, or the Littlepage Manuscripts We go a little farther. In our judgment the false prin ciples that are to be found in a larger portion of the edu cated classes, on the subject of the relation between landlord and tenant, are to be traced to the provincial notions of those who have received their impressions from a state of society'in which no such relations exist. The danger from the anti-rent doctrines is most to be apprehended from these false principles; the misguided and impotent beings who have taken the field in the literal sense, not being a fourth part as formidable to the right as those who have taken it in the moral. There is not a particle more of reason in the argument which says that there should be no farmers, in the strict meaning of the term, than there would be in that which said there should be no j ourneymen connected with the crafts though it would not be easy to find a man to assert the latter doctrine. We dare say, if there did hap pen to exist a portion of the country in which the mechanics were all bosses, it would strike those who dwelt in such a state of society, that it would be singularly improper and anti-republican for any man to undertake journeywork. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.