social exhilaration. We had a very pleasant and
social time, discussing and comparing things in
England and America. Mr. Cobden assured us
that he had curious calls from Americans some-
times. Once an editor of a small village paper
called, who had been making a tour through the
rural districts of England. He said that he had
asked some mowers how they were prospering.
They answered, 'We ain't prosperin', we're hay-
in'.' Said Cobden, 'I told the man, Now don't
you go home and publish that in your paper;
but he did nevertheless, and sent me over the pa-
per with the story in it.' . . . . The conver-
sation turned on the question of the cultivation
of cotton by free labor. The importance of this
great measure was fully appreciated by Mr. Cob-
den, as it must be by all. The difficulties to be
overcome in establishing the movement were no
less clearly seen and ably pointed out. On the
whole, the comparison of views was not only in-
teresting in a high degree, but to us, at least, evi-
dently profitable. We ventured to augur favor-
ably to the cause from the indications of that in-
terview."

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