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government . The jealousy on this point appeared to me to be the strongest political feeling that ever got possession of the mind of man . I do not pretend to judge the merits of the question * I speak solely of the very singular effect of seeing man after man
start eagerly to his feet , to declare that the greatest injury , the basest injustice , the most obnoxious tyranny , that could be practised against the state of which he was a member , would be a vote of a few millions of dollars , for the purpose of making their roads or canals , or for drainage , or , in short , for any purpose of improvement whatsoever .
* One great boast of the country is , that they have no national debt , or that they shall have none in two years . This seems not very wonderful , considering their productive tariff , and that the income paid to their president is 6000 Z . per annum , other salaries being in proportion , and internal improvements , at the expense of the government treasury , being voted unconstitutional . ' ( p . 21 . )
* This seems not very wonderful , considering '—but the wonder consists in the consideration that this immense country is governed , to the entire satisfaction of all its inhabitants , at a cost of a trifling part of the sum paid for the misgovernment of the ' old fashioned little place . * But the lady thinks an enormous taxation an advantage , which , to be duly appreciated , needs but to be lost .
• The low rate of taxation , too , unquestionably permits a more rapid accumulation of individual wealth than with us ; but till I had travelled through America , I had no idea how much of the money collected in taxes returns among the people , not only m the purchase of what their industry furnishes , but in the actual enjoyment of what is furnished . Were I an English legislator , instead of sending sedition to the Tower , I would send her to make
a tour of the United States / Our author , after making a comparison between London or Paris , and the larger cities of the Union , of course greatly to the disadvantage of the latter , makes this very candid acknowledgment : Now God forbid that any reasonable American ( of whom there are so many millions ) should ever come to ask me what I mean ; I should find it very difficult , nay , perhaps , utterly impossible to explain myself . '
Mrs . Trollope pays her tribute of high admiration to the talents of that star of the west , Dr . Channing . * As a preacher he has , perhaps , hardly a rival anywhere . This gentleman is an Unitarian , and 1 was informed by several persons well acquainted with the literary characters of the country , that nearly all their distinguished men were of this persuasion . * ( p . 156 . ) She is , and most justly , disgusted with their cant about religious matters , with the hypocrisy of the teachers , and the imbecile credulity of the taught . But before we can allow this to be a national trait of the Americans only , we must find our own sectarians wonderfully altered .
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Domestic Manners of the Americans . 405
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1832, page 05, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1814/page/45/
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