The Americans / By an American in London.

  • Calvin Colton
Date:
1833
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Credit: The Americans / By an American in London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    gives some very substantial reasons for preferring the former to the latter. The drift of the thing is not very equivocal. It would probably satisfy any one’s mind, that if the “ breakfast ” was not decisive, as we have supposed, the Captain had got thoroughly done over, or back again, from his Republican taint, before he arrived at Brock- ville—unless he hath in him a little bit of the hypocrite. And for our parts, wre thoroughly absolve him from that sin. It is true, he occa- sionally puts on airs, but they are never, in our opinion, of a character to deceive. Nor can we easily suppose, that the inconve- niences and hardships, suffered between the breakfast at New York and the dinner at Brock- ville, could have performed the office of a total ejectment of the intrepid Captain’s philanthropy. Such a conclusion would be an impeachment of that sort of character, which is so advantageously displayed in extracts No. III. In our view, there is no philosophy to account for so great a change, short of the supposition, that this modern champion of Christendom was overtaken by some sudden and astounding event, which did the busi- ness at once, before he had time to muster and save himself. And such evidently, according to