One Way Out: A Middle-class New-Englander Emigrates to America

Excerpt: "My great-grandfather was killed in the Revolution; my grandfather fought in the War of 1812; my father sacrificed his health in the Civil War; but I, though born in New England, am the first of my family to emigrate to this country—the United States of America. That sounds like a riddle or a paradox. It isn''t; it''s a plain statement of fact. As a matter of convenience let me call mysel...