British Inequality

The animus of the British Government is well illustrated by the contrast between the compensation paid to her aristocratic and plebian servants. For example, Harry St. George Ord, governor and Commander in Chief of the Bermudas – including the islands of St. Georges and Bermuda, with a population of eleven thousand people – receives in compensation for his arduous duties the nice little sum of $25,000 per annum, besides a town and country residence, a steam yacht, and many other snug appurtenances, while to the British soldier, who fights her battles in every clime, she doles out the paltry pittance of fourteen pence per day!

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 26, 1862, p. 2