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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    noxious growth, which has sprung up from the seeds of unkindness they have sown, will be thoroughly choked by the dominant virtues of the two nations. Like most of Captain Hall’s rea- sonings respecting America, this part of them is founded entirely upon a false assumption : that those perverse republicans will never be kind towards the parent country—that they have drawn their hatred from their mother’s breast, and that it is bred in their bones. What says Mr. Stuart:—“The British name is a passport to all who travel in the United States, and con- duct themselves as gentlemen.” And we can add our own confident testimony to the justness of this remark. Captain Hall may be a very clever man; but we are sure he does not under- stand human nature in such matters, if he was willing to represent it fairly. But we have before shown what kind of an atmosphere he kept in agitation around him, while he was in that country, which is a moral cause sufficient to ac- count for his own feelings. o We cannot decline the opportunity afforded us here of stamping our own reprobation upon that sort of cant, which has been resorted to by the travelled calumniators of America and their sup-
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