ABSTRACT
An American abolitionist and journalist, Lester sees no point in aristocracy and monarchy and critiques England’s response to class misery from a unique perspective filtered through dramatic Christian rhetoric vis-a-vis the capitalist State. It is too late in the day to set up screens between the masses and the few; between Democracy and mankind. The condition of the helpless classes of England, Thomas Carlyle considered to be a subject worthy of the serious attention of statesmanship. It is painful to behold the dreadful writings of feudalism in the strong grasp of the awakened people. The ponderous gates of the prison-house of humanity will swing open at their approach. They constitute a force, around which swing all the discordant elements, and separate parties that have been working for the same thing in not the same way.
