The Americans / By an American in London.

  • Calvin Colton
Date:
1833
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    and thorn to furnish an opportunity for the break- ing of some young lawyer, or Academician, into the exercise of public speaking—die having a dispensation beforehand, and by universal suf- frage, to employ as much declamation, as lie shall please—being well advised, that lie will not have credit, in a single sentence, for any thing else, unless he does a very extraordinary thine-. Ilonestlv, wTe do not think there is a single spark of the hating and jealous spirit of the Revolution, in the ordinary celebrations of the great national anniversary of the Fourth- of-July. And if not there, where can it be expected to be found ? The truth is, so far as our observation goes, that spirit is entirely extinct in the United States, in all that it ever partook of a national aversion towards the original and parent state, and so far as there was any jealousy in it towards this quarter. We speak of the people, as a body, as a nation. That some indi- viduals will be silly, and behave foolishly, we know is a common infirmity and a common ble- mish of society all the world over. The people of the United States know, that they are a nation. And they have some self- respect. We should be very sorry, if they had
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