And  herein  consists  the  grand  distinc-
tion between  manufacturing  and  agri-
cultural communities.     In  the  latter,
the  labourers  are  bom  and  bred  upon
the  land  which  in  after-life  employs
and  maintains  them.  Their  employers    ,
have  known  them  from  their  innincy— i
perhaps  their  fathers  and  grandfathers
before  them ;  they  are  acquainted  with
their  condition,  their  wants,  their  ha-
bits, and  can  always  give  an  account
of  them;  so  that,  if  they  leave  one
employment,  they  don't  seek  another
without  a  character  to  back  them.
Hence  it  is  that  we  so  seldom  hear  of  '
'<  combinations,"  and  "  unions,"  and
*'  strikes"  against  the  masters  in  the
agricultural  districts ; — indeed,  so  in-
timate is  the  knowledge  of  each  other,  >
so  close  the  connexioti,  so  mulnally

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