progress made by this country, he says:--

"We are led to inquire by what machinery, by what favoring
circumstances, such a result has been brought about. The people, be it
remarked, are the same as ourselves,--the original Thirteen States were
the work of Englishmen. English heads, English hearts, English hands
brought those new communities into existence. No longer connected by
government with us, they nevertheless retained the characteristics of
the race from which they sprang, and proceeding in the great work to
which they were destined, they strode across the continent, the fairest
portion of which they could now call their own. In planting new
settlements they were aided by our own people,--the very elements _out
of which we endeavor to frame colonies, and with which we do produce
sickly, miserable communities that can only be said to exist, and to
linger on in a sort of half-life_, without the spirit of a young, or the
amenities and polish of an old community, and, above all, _without any
spirit of independence_."

Again, speaking of colonization In this country as opposed to Canada and
other English colonies, he writes (page 88):--"Certain adventurous
persons, the 'pioneers' of civilization, wishing to make new settlements
beyond the boundaries of Pennsylvania and Virginia, upon wild lands
belonging to the United States, made formal application to the
Government of the United States at Washington, who, being bound to
afford all possible facility, thereupon take steps to have the land
surveyed and laid out into counties, townships, parishes. The roads are
also indicated, and at once the law exists; and security, guarantied by
the authority of the United States, immediately follows, both for person
and property; and all the machinery known to the Common Law, and needed
for the maintenance of this security, and the enforcement of the law's
decrees, is at once adopted. A municipal authority comes into existence;
a court-house, a jail, a school-room, arise in the wilderness; and
although these buildings be humble, and the men who exercise authority
in them may appear to be in some degree rude, yet is the law there in
all its useful majesty. To it a reverent obedience is rendered; and the
plain magistrate, who, in a hunter's frock, may, in the name of the
United States, pronounce the law's decree, commands an obedience as
complete and sincere as that which is paid to the Chief-Justice of the
Supreme Court at Washin