The Americans / By an American in London.

Calvin Colton

Date:: 1833

Credit: The Americans / By an American in London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$‘>2 herself was commissioned—from heaven perhaps she thought — to accomplish the work. But where should she begin? Her native country had not given her much encouragement, for it had rejected the hearing of her tragedy. We are curious to know, whether her tragedy made the first developement of these doctrines, and whether the London Stage is really so pure, as to have declined it on that account. 13ut Miss \\ right had been to America, and lound them a liberal minded race, and easily susceptible, as she thought, of taking any reason- able novelties. It was resolved, therefore, that Amenca should receive the first offer of her new religion and new condition of society. And, that she was sufficiently sanguine of success may be inferred from the fact, that her zeal never cooled, and her energies flagged not, until she had pub- licly preached her doctrines, in her own person and from her own Hi is, from the high places of every chief City in the United States, from Louisiana to Maine—and at last compelled to shake her garments and the dust of her feet against the unworthy and despising republican free thinkers. As might be imagined, the ap- pearance of such a prodigy made no small stir in$

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