North America — Volume 2

In one of the earlier chapters of this volume,--now some seven or eight chapters past,--I brought myself on my travels back to Boston. It was not that my way homewards lay by th...

It is, I presume, universally known that the citizens of the Western American colonies of Great Britain which revolted, declared themselves to be free from British dominion by a...

I trust that it may not be thought that in this chapter I am going to take upon myself the duties of a military critic. I am well aware that I have no capacity for such a task,...

The site of the present city of Washington was chosen with three special views; firstly, that being on the Potomac it might have the full advantage of water-carriage and a sea-p...

Though I had felt Washington to be disagreeable as a city, yet I was almost sorry to leave it when the day of my departure came. I had allowed myself a month for my sojourn in t...

I have seen various essays purporting to describe the causes of this civil war between the North and South; but they have generally been written with the view of vindicating eit...

To whatever period of life my days may be prolonged, I do not think that I shall ever forget Cairo. I do not mean Grand Cairo, which is also memorable in its way, and a place no...

From Louisville we returned to Cincinnati, in making which journey we were taken to a place called Seymour in Indiana, at which spot we were to "make connection" with the train...

Missouri is a slave State lying to the west of the Mississippi and to the north of Arkansas. It forms a portion of the territory ceded by France to the United States in 1803. In...

The Americans are proud of much that they have done in this war, and indeed much has been done which may justify pride; but of nothing are they so proud as of the noble dimensio...

Any Englishman or Frenchman residing in the American States cannot fail to be struck with the inferiority of the Post-office arrangements in that country to those by which they...

In the interior of the Capitol much space is at present wasted, but this arises from the fact of great additions to the original plan having been made. The two chambers,--that o...

In speaking of the American constitution I have said so much of the American form of government that but little more is left to me to say under that heading. Nevertheless, I sho...

I find it impossible to resist the subject of inns. As I have gone on with my journey, I have gone on with my book, and have spoken here and there of American hotels as I have e...

In speaking of the literature of any country we are, I think, too much inclined to regard the question as one appertaining exclusively to the writers of books,--not acknowledgin...

I do not propose to make any attempt to explain in detail the practices and rules of the American Courts of Law. No one but a lawyer should trust himself with such a task, and n...

I. WASHINGTON. II. CONGRESS. III. THE CAUSES OF THE WAR. IV. WASHINGTON TO ST. LOUIS. V. MISSOURI. VI. CAIRO AND CAMP WOOD. VII. THE ARMY OF THE NORTH. VIII. BACK TO BOSTON. IX....