[01HIST] Use the excerpt below from a Georgia newspaper in 1…
Use the excerpt below from a Georgia newspaper in 1856 to answer the question that follows. Free Society! We sicken at the name. What is it but a conglomeration of greasy mechanics, filthy operatives, small-fisted farmers, and moon-struck theorists? . . . The prevailing class one meets is that of mechanics struggling to be genteel, and small farmers who do their own drudgery; and yet are hardly fit for association with a southern gentleman’s body servant. The newspaper article quoted above could best be used to illustrate which aspect of American life in the late 1850s?