Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887 . ^ where their pioneer ancestors effect-ed a heroic settlement—a landed aristoc-racy, if there be such in America. Familynames come down from generation to gen-eration, just as a glance at the British peer-age will show that they were long ago be-ing transmitted in kindred families overthe sea. One great honored name willdo nearly as much here as there to keep afamily in peculiar respect, after the reasonfor it has ceased. Here is that old invinci-ble race ideal of personal liberty, and thatold, unreckoning, truculent, animal r
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887 . ^ where their pioneer ancestors effect-ed a heroic settlement—a landed aristoc-racy, if there be such in America. Familynames come down from generation to gen-eration, just as a glance at the British peer-age will show that they were long ago be-ing transmitted in kindred families overthe sea. One great honored name willdo nearly as much here as there to keep afamily in peculiar respect, after the reasonfor it has ceased. Here is that old invinci-ble race ideal of personal liberty, and thatold, unreckoning, truculent, animal rageat whatever infringes on it. They Avereamong the very earliest to grant manhoodsuffrage. Nowhere in this country arethe rights of property more inviolable, theviolations of these more surely punished:neither counsel nor judge nor any powerwhatsoever can acquit a man who hastaken fourpence of his neighbors is the old land-loving, HEAir HELD. THE BLUE-GRASS REGION OF KENTUCKY. 381 home-stayingjhome-defen (ling is not the lunching, tourist race that,to Mr, Ruskins horror, leaves its crumbsand chicken bones on the glaciers. Thesimple rural key-note of life is still thesweetest. Now, after the lapse of morethan a century, the most populous townthey have built contains less than twentythousand white souls. Along with thelove of land has gone comparative contentwith the fair annual increase of flock andfield. No man among them has ever gotimmense wealth. Here is the old sense ofpersonal privacy and reserve which hasfor centuries intrenched the Englishmanin the heart of his estate, and forced himto regard with inexpugnable discomforthis nearest neighbors boundaries. Thiswould have been a densely peopled region,the farms would have been minutely sub-divided, had sons asked and received per-mission to settle on parts of the ancestralestate. This filling in and too close per-sonal contact would have sat
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