rather supinely to their tailors and tinkers, and are no more to be taken as a sample of the American people, than the head of Lord Byron as a sample of the heads of the British peerage.  I speak not of these, but of the population generally, as seen in town and country, among the rich and the poor, in the slave states, and the free states.  I do not like them.  I do not like their principles, I do not like their manners, I do not like their opinions.

Both as a woman, and as a stranger, it might be unseemly for me to say that I do not like their government, and therefore I will not say so.  That it is one which pleases themselves is most certain, and this is considerably more important than pleasing all the travelling old ladies in the world.  I entered the country at New Orleans, remained for more than two years west of the Alleghanies, and passed another year among the Atlantic cities, and the country around them.  I conversed during this time with citizens of all orders and degrees, and I never heard from any one a single disparaging word against their government.  It is not, therefore, surprising, that when the people of that country hear strangers questioning the wisdom of their institutions, and expressing disapprobation at some of their effects, they should set it down either to an incapacity of judging, or a malicious feeling of envy and ill-will.

“How can any one in their senses doubt the excellence of a a government which we have tried for half a century, and loved the better the longer we have known it.”  Such is the natural enquiry of every American when the excellence of their government is doubted; and I am inclined to answer, that no one in their senses, who has visited the country, and known the people, can doubt its fitness for them, such as they now are, or its utter unfitness for any other people..

Whether the government has made the people what they are, or whether the people have made the government what it is, to suit themselves, I know not; but if the latter, they have shown a consummation of wisdom which the assembled world may look upon and admire.

It is a matter of historical notoriety that the original stock of the white population now inhabiting the United States, were persons who had banished themselves, or were banished from the mother country.  The land they found was favourable to their increase and prosperity; the colony grew and flourished.  Years rolled on, and the children, the grand-children, and the great grand-children of the first settlers, replenished the land, and found it flowing with milk and honey.  That they should wish to keep this milk and honey to themselves, is not very surprising.  What did the mother country do for them?  She sent them out gay and gallant officers to guard their frontier; the which they thought they could guard as well themselves; and then she taxed their tea.  Now, this was disagreeable; and to atone for it, the distant colony