LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN FARMER ......

J.Hector St. John de Creveceur  (1735-1813) was a surveyor with the French army during the Indian wars (1754-63) After the war, Creveceur purchased a farm in NY, and prospered, the following excerpts are from his published ; "Letters from an American farmer", published in (1782).

A new continent, a modern society, different from what we have seen. It is not composed as in Europe, of great lords who possess everything, and of a herd of people who have nothing, here are no aristocratically families, no high courts, no kings, no bishops, no ecclesiastical dominion, no invisible power giving  to a few very visible ones, no great manufacturers employing tens of thousands, no great refinements of luxury . The rich and the poor are not so far removed from each other as they are in Europe. Some few towns excepted .

We are all tillers of the earth, from Nova Scotia to West Florida, we are a people of cultivators scattered over an immense territory, communicating with each other by means of good roads and navigable rivers, united by the silken bands of mild government, all respecting the laws , without dreading their power, or sudden change of mood, Because they are equitable.

We are all animated with the spirit of an industry which is unfettered and unrestrained, because each person works for himself. If he travels through our rural districts , he views not the hostile castle, and the haughty mansions, contrasted with the clay-built hut and miserable cabins, where cattle and men help to keep each other warm, and dwell in meanness, smoke, and indigence.

A pleasing uniformity of decent competence appears throughout our habitation, a civilized conformity , the meanest of our long-houses is a dry and comfortable habitation. Lawyers or merchants are some of the fairest titles our towns afford, that of a farmer is the only appellation of the rural inhabitants of our country side .... we have no princes, for whom we toil, starve, and bleed, we are the most perfect society now existing in the world. Here man is free as he ought to be .

WOW !!!! That was 1782 and for 234 years, we've been trying to add to the beauty and betterness and fairness of these lands and this scene, more or less of course depending on who's governing, but at least surely, most of the times. So why is it Mr. president that you and your very, very rich oligarchy, family, and entourage, and administration, your palaces, private clubs and habitat, and private golf courses , your private jets and yakhts  , and filthy  rich friends from all over the civilized and not so civilized  world are working so hard to topple it all !!!

What the American dream have achieved during 250 years , and managed to redistribute over the whole population, you're all trying and working hard to reverse, recreating the opposite , the exact opposite to be honest of what the good gentlemen farmer and many generations later were so proud of , and happy to live within.

Why are you all creating so much havoc and enmity in the land ?? all over the country literally ??  So much division and hatred between its people ?? Europe nowadays is the envy of the world with its fairness to its people , its fair social programs, its medical to all, and social securities to its elderly, even its treatment of immigrants and political asylum seekers , its free superior education at all levels, and they'r not bankrupt by any means.

While we, who had it all here, at least we could see it all coming with the light at the end of our tunnels , are reversing it all, and walking back , with sure steps to feudal days of greed , brutality, and hatred, and unfairness, why is it so Mr. Trump  ??? under your reign . Americans of all walks of life are bewildered , so are the world populations . But of course America comes first .
As always, my very sincere thanks for your time and help, from the la la lands (The lovely Lebanon)  I right to all of you with love .