Notes Left Over Author:Walt Whitman If the United States, like the countries of the Old World, are also to grow vast crops of poor, desperate, dissatisfied, nomadic, miserably-waged populations, such as we see looming upon us of late years -- steadily, even if slowly, eating into them like a cancer of lungs or stomach -- then our republican experiment, notwithstanding all its surf... more »ace-successes, is at heart an unhealthy failure.« less