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- CHAPTER THE FIRST A NIGHT STEAMER ON THE POTOMAC RIVER. A VIRGINIA ROAD, AND A BLACK DRIVER. RICHMOND. BALTIMORE. THE HARRISBURG MAIL, AND A GLIMPSE OF THE CITY. A CANAL BOAT
- CHAPTER THE SECOND SOME FURTHER ACCOUNT OF THE CANAL-BOAT, ITS DOMESTIC ECONOMY, AND ITS PASSENGERS. JOURNEY TO PITTSBURG ACROSS THE ALLEGHANY MOUNTAINS. PITTSBURG
- CHAPTER THE THIRD FROM PITTSBURG TO CINCINNATI IN A WESTERN STEAM-BOAT. CINCINNATI
- CHAPTER THE FOURTH FROM CINCINNATI TO LOUISVILLE IN ANOTHER WESTERN STEAM-BOAT; AND FROM LOUISVILLE TO ST. LOUIS IN ANOTHER. ST. LOUIS
- CHAPTER THE FIFTH A JAUNT TO THE LOOKING-GLASS PRAIRIE AND BACK
- CHAPTER THE SIXTH RETURN TO CINCINNATI. A STAGE-COACH RIDE FROM THAT CITY TO COLUMBUS, AND THENCE TO SANDUSKY. SO, BY LAKE ERIE, TO THE FALLS OF NIAGARA
- CHAPTER THE SEVENTH IN CANADA; TORONTO; KINGSTON; MONTREAL; QUEBEC; ST. JOHN'S. IN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN; LEBANON; THE SHAKER VILLAGE; AND WEST POINT
- CHAPTER THE EIGHTH THE PASSAGE HOME
- CHAPTER THE NINTH SLAVERY
- CHAPTER THE TENTH CONCLUDING REMARKS
CHAPTER THE TENTH - CONCLUDING REMARKS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- CHAPTER THE FIRST A NIGHT STEAMER ON THE POTOMAC RIVER. A VIRGINIA ROAD, AND A BLACK DRIVER. RICHMOND. BALTIMORE. THE HARRISBURG MAIL, AND A GLIMPSE OF THE CITY. A CANAL BOAT
- CHAPTER THE SECOND SOME FURTHER ACCOUNT OF THE CANAL-BOAT, ITS DOMESTIC ECONOMY, AND ITS PASSENGERS. JOURNEY TO PITTSBURG ACROSS THE ALLEGHANY MOUNTAINS. PITTSBURG
- CHAPTER THE THIRD FROM PITTSBURG TO CINCINNATI IN A WESTERN STEAM-BOAT. CINCINNATI
- CHAPTER THE FOURTH FROM CINCINNATI TO LOUISVILLE IN ANOTHER WESTERN STEAM-BOAT; AND FROM LOUISVILLE TO ST. LOUIS IN ANOTHER. ST. LOUIS
- CHAPTER THE FIFTH A JAUNT TO THE LOOKING-GLASS PRAIRIE AND BACK
- CHAPTER THE SIXTH RETURN TO CINCINNATI. A STAGE-COACH RIDE FROM THAT CITY TO COLUMBUS, AND THENCE TO SANDUSKY. SO, BY LAKE ERIE, TO THE FALLS OF NIAGARA
- CHAPTER THE SEVENTH IN CANADA; TORONTO; KINGSTON; MONTREAL; QUEBEC; ST. JOHN'S. IN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN; LEBANON; THE SHAKER VILLAGE; AND WEST POINT
- CHAPTER THE EIGHTH THE PASSAGE HOME
- CHAPTER THE NINTH SLAVERY
- CHAPTER THE TENTH CONCLUDING REMARKS
Summary
There are many passages in this book, where I have been at some pains to resist the temptation of troubling my readers with my own deductions and conclusions: preferring that they should judge for themselves, from such premises as I have laid before them. My only object in the outset, was, to carry them with me faithfully wheresoever I went: and that task I have discharged.
But I may be pardoned, if on such a theme as the general character of the American people, and the general character of their social system, as presented to a stranger's eyes, I desire to express my own opinions in a few words, before I bring these volumes to a close.
They are, by nature, frank, brave, cordial, hospitable, and affectionate. Cultivation and refinement seem but to enhance their warmth of heart and ardent enthusiasm; and it is the possession of these latter qualities in a most remarkable degree, which renders an educated American one of the most endearing and most generous of friends. I never was so won upon, as by this class; never yielded up my full confidence and esteem so readily and pleasurably, as to them; never can make again, in half-a-year, so many friends for whom I seem to entertain the regard of half a life.
These qualities are natural, I implicitly believe, to the whole people. That they are, however, sadly sapped and blighted in their growth among the mass; and that there are influences at work which endanger them still more, and give but little present promise of their healthy restoration; is a truth that ought to be told.
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- American Notes for General Circulation , pp. 285 - 306Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009