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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PREFACE
- CHAPTER I THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
- CHAPTER II THE LABOURING POPULATION—IRISH AND GERMANS
- CHAPTER III THE PRESS—ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE—PUBLIC OPINION
- CHAPTER IV RELIGIOUS AND MORAL CHARACTERISTICS
- CHAPTER V THE WOMEN OF AMERICA
- CHAPTER VI THE CITIES OF AMERICA—NEW YORK
- CHAPTER VII THE STEAMBOAT AND RAILWAY SYSTEM OF AMERICA—STREET TRAFFIC
- CHAPTER VIII EDUCATION—THE FREE-SCHOOL SYSTEM
- CHAPTER IX BUSINESS
- CHAPTER X MINERAL WEALTH OF THE COUNTRY
- CHAPTER XI THE LATE CIVIL WAR
- CHAPTER XII SANATORY FAIRS AND CHARITIES
- CHAPTER XIII POLITICAL CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE
- CHAPTER XIV COMMISSIONERS OF EMIGRATION—CASTLE GARDEN, NEW YOEK
- CHAPTER XV ADVICE TO INTENDING EMIGRANTS
CHAPTER II - THE LABOURING POPULATION—IRISH AND GERMANS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PREFACE
- CHAPTER I THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
- CHAPTER II THE LABOURING POPULATION—IRISH AND GERMANS
- CHAPTER III THE PRESS—ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE—PUBLIC OPINION
- CHAPTER IV RELIGIOUS AND MORAL CHARACTERISTICS
- CHAPTER V THE WOMEN OF AMERICA
- CHAPTER VI THE CITIES OF AMERICA—NEW YORK
- CHAPTER VII THE STEAMBOAT AND RAILWAY SYSTEM OF AMERICA—STREET TRAFFIC
- CHAPTER VIII EDUCATION—THE FREE-SCHOOL SYSTEM
- CHAPTER IX BUSINESS
- CHAPTER X MINERAL WEALTH OF THE COUNTRY
- CHAPTER XI THE LATE CIVIL WAR
- CHAPTER XII SANATORY FAIRS AND CHARITIES
- CHAPTER XIII POLITICAL CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE
- CHAPTER XIV COMMISSIONERS OF EMIGRATION—CASTLE GARDEN, NEW YOEK
- CHAPTER XV ADVICE TO INTENDING EMIGRANTS
Summary
Though society in New York is made up of almost every nationality on the face of the earth, the Irish and German elements are by far the most predominant. “Schenck“ and “Shaughnessy“ represent the plodding Teuton and the impulsive Celt, over the portals of lager-beer saloons and whisky stores, in all the leading thoroughfares, from the back slums in the vicinity of the wharves to the pave on the Broadway, where Republican “big bugocracy” sports its jewels, silks and drapery. America may be looked upon as a sort of promised land for the children of ould Ireland. After coming here, if they do not get milk and honey in abundance, they are able, at all events, to exchange their national “male of potatoes“ for plenty of good substantial food; their mud cabins and clay floors with fires on the hearth, for clean, comfortable dwellings with warm stoves and “bits of carpits on their flures.” It is worthy of note how the more prudent and industrious class of Irishmen succeed in the different walks of life, when they are favoured with a fair field for the exercise of their genius and industry.
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