[12] Michel Chevalier, _Society, Manners, and Politics in the United States_ (Boston, 1839), chap. x, 112-113, 117, says: “Loading a wagon with a plough, a bed, a barrel of salt meat, the indispensable supply of tea and molasses, a Bible and a wife, and with his axe on his shoulder, the Yankee sets out for the West, without a servant, without an assistant, often without a companion, to build himself a log hut, six hundred miles from his father’s roof, and clear away a spot for a farm in the midst of the boundless forest.... He is incomparable as a pioneer, unequalled as a settler of the wilderness.” [13] See his _Common Sense_ (Philadelphia, 1791). [14] See Captain Basil Hall, _Travels in North America in the Years 1827 and 1828_ (Edinburgh, 1829), i, 130. [15] _American Agriculturist_, i, (1842), 115 ff. [16] Captain Robert Barclay, _Agricultural Tour in the United States_ ... (London, 1842), 41. [17] _American Agriculturist_, i, 311. [18] _Germania_ (translated slightly differently in University of Pennsylvania _Translations and Reprints_), 11. [19] J. H. von Thünen, _Der Isolierte Staat_ (Berlin, 1875), 103 ff., “Ueber die Lage der Höfe in Mecklenburg.” [20] In southwestern Wisconsin, about 1870, a respectable German farmer announced to his relatives the marriage of his daughter to a man who had arrived but recently and had the status of a mere laborer. To parry all questions about the suitability of the groom, who was known to be addicted to liquor and other vices, the farmer added: “I’m very willing to give him my daughter, for he is the best ‘grubber’ I’ve ever had on my farm.” [21] When John Kerler settled near Milwaukee in 1848, he bought a farm on which was no provision for sheltering livestock other than work animals. He built a barn at once, refusing to permit, for a single winter, the cruel American practice of leaving cattle out in the cold. His case is typical. [22] See the author’s _History of Agriculture in Wisconsin_ (Madison, 1922), _passim_. [23] Editor’s italics. [24] An example is in Abram E. Brown, _Legends of Old Bedford_ (Boston, 1892). [25] Timothy Dwight, _Travels in New England and New York_ (New Haven, Conn., 1821), ii, 459, 462. [26] Edmund Burke, _On Conciliation_. [27] The Ohio Company’s grant, 1787, contained a reservation for religion as well as grants for education. Joseph Schafer, _Origin of the System of Land Grants in Aid of Education_, Wisconsin University _Bulletin_, History Series, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Madison, 1902). [28] See Edward Eggleston, _The Circuit Rider_ and _The Graysons_. [29] Goodsell, who was one of the founders of Beloit College, removed later to Northfield, Minnesota, and became one of the founders of Carlton College. S. A. Dwinnell, Reedsburg (Wis.) _Free Press_, December 24, 1874. [30] _Madison City Express_, March 14, March 23, and April 27, 1843. Strong and Hamilton are not reputed to have been total abstainers.