THE GOOD WITCH'S FAMILYOriginal Airdate: October 29, 2011 Life is going well for Cassie as she settles into marriage with Middleton Police Chief Jake Russell and as stepmom to Brandon and Lori. But evil soon blows into town in the form of Cassie's long-lost cousin Abigail, who whips up wickedness like a tornado. The once peaceful Russell family bickers night and day; Jake is fired after an argument with the Mayor over a bridge expansion; and Martha, the Mayor's wife and town busy body, walks out on her long marriage. As the town divides further over neighborhood expansion, Cassie is drafted to run for Mayor. With in her once-happy marriage, her family is unraveling, and Abigail's diabolical "double, double, toil and trouble" is the apex of Cassie's misery. What's a good witch to do?
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There are only two counts in the whole country who have estates, and exact some feudal observances from their tenantry. All the rest of the country is divided into small farms, which belong to the cultivator. It is true some few, appertaining to the Church, are let, but always on a lease for life, generally renewed in favour of the eldest son, who has this advantage as well as a right to a double portion of the property. But the value of the farm is estimated, and after his portion is assigned to him he must be answerable for the residue to the remaining part of the family.
The restriction which most resembles the painful subordination of Ireland, is that vessels, trading to the West Indies, are obliged to pass by their own ports, and unload their cargoes at Copenhagen, which they afterwards reship. The duty is indeed inconsiderable, but the navigation being dangerous, they run a double risk.
The profits of exclusive agriculture are not morethan one-third of those realized from commerceand manufactures. The ordinary and averagewages of laborers employed in manufactures andmechanic trades are about double those of agriculturallaborers; but, moreover, women and childrenget good wages in manufacturing countries,whose labor is lost in agricultural ones. Butthis consideration, great as it is, shrinks toinsignificance compared with the intellectualsuperiority of all other pursuits over agriculture.
These are stern realities, grave facts, which itis impossible to gainsay. What may be the resultof them, unless some adequate remedy canbe provided, it is impossible with certainty topredict; but unless we are prepared to deny thedoctrine of that retribution which has beendirectly revealed to us from above, and of whichthe history of neighboring states affords us somany striking examples, we can hardly expect toremain unpunished for what is truly a nationalcrime. The offense, indeed, according to all theelements of human calculation, is likely to bringits own punishment. It cannot be that societycan exist in tranquility, or order be permanentlymaintained, so long as a large portion of theworking classes, of the hard-handed men whoseindustry makes capital move and multiply itself,are exposed to the operation of a system thatmakes their position less tolerable than that ofEgyptian bondsmen. To work is not only aduty, but a privilege; but to work against hope,to toil under the absolute pressure of despair, isthe most miserable lot that the imagination canpossibly conceive. It is, in fact, a virtual abrogationof that freedom which every Briton istaught to consider his birthright, but which now,however well it may sound as an abstract term,is practically, in the case of thousands, placedutterly beyond their reach.
Negro slavery would be changed immediatelyto some form of peonage, serfdom or villienage, if the negroes were sufficiently intelligentand provident to manage a farm. No one wouldhave the labor and trouble of management, ifhis negroes would pay in hires and rentsone-half what free tenants pay in rent in Europe.Every negro in the South should be soon liberated,if he would take liberty on the terms that whitetenants hold it. The fact that he cannot enjoyliberty on such terms, seems conclusive that he isonly fit to be a slave.
At the slaveholding South all is peace, quiet, plentyand contentment. We have no mobs, no trades unions,no strikes for higher wages, no armed resistance to thelaw, but little jealousy of the rich by the poor. Wehave but few in our jails, and fewer in our poor houses.We produce enough of the comforts and necessaries oflife for a population three or four times as numerous asours. We are wholly exempt from the torrent ofpauperism, crime, agrarianism, and infidelity whichEurope is pouring from her jails and alms houses on thealready crowded North. Population increases slowly,wealth rapidly. In the tide water region of EasternVirginia, as far as our experience extends, the cropshave doubled in fifteen years, whilst the population hasbeen almost stationary. In the same period the lands,owing to improvements of the soil and the many finehouses erected in the country, have nearly doubled invalue. This ratio of improvement has been approximatedor exceeded wherever in the South slaves arenumerous. We have enough for the present, and noMalthusian spectres frightening us for the future.Wealth is more equally distributed than at the North,where a few millionaires own most of the property ofthe country. (These millionaires are men of cold heartsand weak minds; they know how to make money, butnot how to use it, either for the benefit of themselvesor of others.) High intellectual and moral attainments,refinement of head and heart, give standing to a manin the South, however poor he may be. Money is,with few exceptions, the only thing that ennobles atthe North. We have poor among us, but none whoare over-worked and under-fed. We do not crowd citiesbecause lands are abundant and their owners kind,merciful and hospitable. The poor are as hospitableas the rich, the negro as the white man. Nobodydreams of turning a friend, a relative, or a strangerfrom his door. The very negro who deems it no crimeto steal, would scorn to sell his hospitality. We haveno loafers, because the poor relative or friend who borrowsour horse, or spends a week under our roof, is awelcome guest. The loose economy, the wasteful modeof living at the South, is a blessing when rightlyconsidered; it keeps want, scarcity and famine at adistance, because it leaves room for retrenchment. Thenice, accurate economy of France, England and NewEngland, keeps society always on the verge of famine,because it leaves no room to retrench, that is to liveon a part only of what they now consume. Our societyexhibits no appearance of precocity, no symptomsof decay. A long course of continuing improvement isin prospect before us, with no limits which humanforesight can descry. Actual liberty and equality withour white population has been approached much nearerthan in the free States. Few of our whites ever workas day laborers, none as cooks, scullions, ostlers, bodyservants, or in other menial capacities. One free citizendoes not lord it over another; hence that feelingof independence and equality that distinguishes us;hence that pride of character, that self-respect, thatgives us ascendancy when we come in contact withNortherners. It is a distinction to be a Southerner, asit was once to be a Roman citizen. 2ff7e9595c
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