The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, popularly described . now in full operation several of the largest cottonand iron establishments in the State. The erection of these magnifi-cent industrial establishments has given an impulse and tone to thebusiness of the place which it never knew before. Like many othercounty-seats,Lancaster long labored under the paralysing influences of asuperfluous professional population—a population which, whatever itssocial merit, does nothing but consume, without contributing to the realpro
The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, popularly described . now in full operation several of the largest cottonand iron establishments in the State. The erection of these magnifi-cent industrial establishments has given an impulse and tone to thebusiness of the place which it never knew before. Like many othercounty-seats,Lancaster long labored under the paralysing influences of asuperfluous professional population—a population which, whatever itssocial merit, does nothing but consume, without contributing to the realproductions or substantial wealth of a community. The place is stillliterally overrun with professional men—including a horde of smiling,friendly politicians, awaiting their turn for the suffrages of the free and independent electors of the old guard. There is nocounty in the State—there is probably none in the Union—wheremore interest is manifested in political affairs; at the same time, itmust be observed, there is none which has more offices to bestow!Lancaster has produced some of the most skilful practitioners in the. LANCASTER. 51 political arena. Indeed, any one who has graduated in its schools,may safely venture forth, relying on his tactics. The learned pro-fessions, too, embrace some of the brightest ornaments in the country,while the population, as a whole, is intelligent and enterprising—?though with the elements surrounding them, hardly as enterprisingand public spirited as might reasonably be expected. Some of thecitizens are very rich, and, as recent experiments have proved, couldsafely invest their capital in objects conceived in the spirit of tasteand liberality. Lancaster, with half the talent and energy wasted inher political struggles, might readily become one of the principalworkshops of Pennsylvania. Convenient to the anthracite coal beds,situated in a most magnificent agricultural region, with inexhaustibledeposits of valuable minerals—as iron or
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