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. . 1 JVfay £ 7 . I accompanied tb € f Governor on a visit , which , he liad informed me , by a very polite rj £ e tlie day before , he was . going to make , tothe prison at Singling , about thirty miles up the river . We left the city at 7 a . m . by a steam-boat , and arrived at 11 o ' clock . The morning was fine and clear , and the scenery , on both banks , delightful . Some rnilitia men , who were on board with a band , amused themselves with danciag reels ; While the gaiety and cheerfulness that prevailed , re * minded me of some scene on the Rhine/—vol 1 . p . 16 .
1 bad but few acquaintances among what may be called the refined classes of society in New York . From the little i jwfr however , I was led to conclude that the manners that prevailed io | j ^ Hkp ircles , differed no furtkec from those in the corresponding rank j ^^^ Vourselves , than what might be explained by a reference to habits ran give a different value in the eyes of each to the connexion between essentials and externals . There is a natural good breeding about an American
gentle-Man that places you at once in a position most congenial to your ^ feelings , and points out to you the exact limits between social freedom and vulgar familiarity . He has ^ in general , too much respect for himself to treat you with hauteur ; to mortify you with an assumption of superiority , or embarrass a stranger by * £ display of those conventional forms ^ wirtc rt mediocrity has imposed ^ mjibri the spirit of ^ exclusiveness , tdvherleir its insignificance and protect lis privileges . These remarks aM suggested by what occurred on a visit I paid to a family vvhpm I had
engaged myself to accompany to Hoboken , a favourite report , tin the New Jersey side of the river , to the cockneys of New York , as well as to strangers . They were staying at the Clinton Hotel , which , like the other houses of that kind , is divided into two portions , with separate entrances , one of which is appropriated to private families . I found them just skting down to dinner ; and the reception I met with was fetifch * e ~ to show me that I had not intruded on an occasion ! which
witti us too often assumes , on the arrival of a stranger , an appearance of cerefnony and constraint . I could not but contrast the manner in whrch Uiy declining to partake of their meal was received , with the pre ^ sihgi rn portunities 1 shouJd , most likely , have been * ' bored" with in niy-i > wil country . No one was " put out * or 4 < hurf' because a sick man wtfirid not make himself ill to please others . Often have I suffered
fccve ^ Jy in England from compliance with entreaties , which were so i&rgfeit afc to carry with them an evident disposition to find cause for ftiabtoiauq * , ' and perhaps offence , in a refusal , There were two young HnM&ffitittt party with as fair a claim—because they had no pretension —ftatke title of gentlewomen , as any of any country , whatever meaiung Mlicatpve bV admiration and distinction may be affixed to the apjpeilatk * t : < Hfebdlfen presented an enchanting scene ; arid the family forty m # kMll > h * A ifceeh ^ Irtrttted Was neither inserisibTe to its betfiftie * , trot
thm lew * interesting of the different groups that gave anhnaHian to its uilie htqiw ^ < H j 1 o *^^ ^ metcmwsim ^ iM ^ hU jdmimty % * Boston : ^* .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1835, page 732, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2651/page/40/
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