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Excerpt from The Travelling Bachelor, or Notions of the Americans
The writer has not the nallest doubt that many orthodox mbeheverswilllistentowhathehassaidofamericainthis work, with incredulous ears. He invites all such stout ad herents to their own preconceived opinions, to submit to a certain examinationof facts that are perfectly within their reach. He wouldproposethatthcy inquireintothestateof Amaicassitexistedfifiyyearssgonndthattheythencom pare it with its present condition. After they have struck a balance between the two results, they can safely be left to their own ruminations as to the probability of a people, as barbarous, as ignorant, and as disorganized, as they have been accustomed to consider the Americans, being very likely to work such miraclm. When they have honestly come to a conclusion, it is possible they may be disposed to give some credit to the contents of the following pages.
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