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ism... but, tell me, was not Scott a real Christian and
far better than many Lutherans...
Now for the letters.—A servant girl from Hjorteberga
writes: Here I get 20 “Riksdaler” (five dollars) in monthly
pay and have no outdoor work, could not wieh for better,
does not miss Sweden, never regrets her journey, only
wishes that she could get her spinning wheel. This is
different, she says, from Sweden where one served for
12 Riksdaler (a year), ate oaten bread, and had to lie
among a few rags on a hard gable-bench...
A hired man, Bengt Monson, now at Knoxville, Illinois,
writes, on Oct. 23, 1S53: ... hired out for 40 Riksdaler
per month, smd is offered 528 Riksdaler a year... “No
count in Sweden lives tetter“. The horses eat oats and
corn... He is working one-fourth mile from the City of
Galesburg... The wheat costs 12 Riksdaler there... He
speaks of the oppressed Sweden... but the day of
retribution is coming closer. Soon the hour is at hand when
the tears and sweat of the working class will be exacted
from the extortioners... Thus the extract from this
letter.
Another letter, from Andrew Johnson,... speaks of the
hardships of the journey, travelled thru cities ravaged by
the cholera, lost his wife thru cholera; but, nevertheless,
he never regrets the day he arrived there... Of all he
has conversed with only one regretted the journey... If
the servants in Sweden knew the conditions there and
could make the trip, Sweden would soon be without
servants, he writes... Good protective laws, the manner
of life four times more decent than in Sweden... All
alike; the farmer, the minister and the judge all have the
same title. One does not need to go and bow and nod,
hat in hand...
...Such letters circulate here and arouse bad blood.—
The servants are already beginning to express themselves,
saying that no one can remain here and slave away until
one could spit blood...
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