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[Kenner <hi...@di...>]

Rospect of swelling mountains and lowly vales is more pleasing to the
eye than that of the monotonous, though more fertile champaign. Now, as
the relation of patrician and plebeian, of patron and client, of master
and servant, of superior and inferior, can scarcely be said to exist in
the United States, so all the nice gradations of manner which are
elicited by those relations, are wanting also. The social machine rubs
on with as little oil as possible--there is but small room for the
exercise of the amenities and charities of life. The favours of the
great are seldom rewarded by the obsequiousness of the sma