Category: Travel Writing

Society in America, Volume 1 (of 2)

MORALS OF POLITICS 82 SECTION I.--Office 84 II.--Newspapers 109 III.--Apathy in Citizenship 115 IV.--Allegiance to Law 120 V.--Sectional Prejudice 135 VI.--Citizenship of People of Colour 144 VII.--Political Non-Existence of Women 148

Chapters

1. CHAPTER II.

2. CHAPTER III.

MORALS OF POLITICS 82 SECTION I.--Office 84 II.--Newspapers 109 III.--Apathy in Citizenship 115 IV.--Allegiance to Law 120 V.--Sectional Prejudice 135 VI.--Citizenship of People...

3. PART II.

ECONOMY 155 Solitaires 162 Springs of Virginia 175 New England Farm-house 193 West Country Life 201 Township of Gloucester 205 South Country Life 212 Picture of Michigan 232 The...

4. CHAPTER I.

5. PART I.

" ... Those unalterable relations which Providence has ordained that everything should bear to every other. These relations, which are truth itself, the foundation of virtue, an...

6. CHAPTER I.

"For these are the men that, when they have played their parts, and had their exits, must step out, and give the moral of their scenes, and deliver unto posterity an inventory o...

7. CHAPTER II.

"The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen, in his person and property, and in their management. Try by this, as a tally, every provision...

8. CHAPTER III.

"'Tis he whose law is reason; who depends Upon that law as on the best of friends; Whence, in a state where men are tempted still To evil for a guard against worse ill, And what...

9. PART II.

The traveller from the Old World to the New is apt to lose himself in reflection when he should be observing. Speculations come in crowds in the wilderness. He finds himself phi...

10. CHAPTER I.

"Plus un peuple nombreux se rapproche, moins le gouvernement peut usurper sur le Souverain. L'avantage d'un gouvernement tyrannique est donc en ceci, d'agir à grandes distances....