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Title: A Visit To The United States In 1841

Author: Joseph Sturge

Release Date: March 5, 2004 [EBook #11454]

Language: English

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A VISIT TO THE UNITED STATES IN 1841

BY JOSEPH STURGE

1842

BOSTON: DEXTER S. KING, NO. 1 CORNHILL.
"'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower
Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume;
And we are weeds without it. All constraint,
Except what wisdom lays on evil men,
Is evil; hurts the faculties, impedes
Their progress in the road of science; blinds
The eyesight of discovery; and begets,
In those that suffer it, a sordid mind."

COWPER.

Preface to the American Edition

Preface to the English Edition

A Visit, &c.

General Observations

Appendix A: ANTI-SLAVERY EPISTLE OF "FRIENDS" IN GREAT BRITAIN.

Appendix B: EARLY EFFORTS OF "FRIENDS" IN BEHALF OF NEGRO

Appendix C: Report of the Committee of the Yearly Meeting of
Friends, &c.

Appendix D: ELISHA TYSON.

Appendix E: THE "AMISTAD CAPTIVES"

Appendix F: Extract from an Essay by WILLIAM JAY

Appendix G: OPIUM WAR WITH CHINA.

Appendix H: LETTER OF A.L. PENNOCK.

Appendix I: GERRIT SMITH'S SLAVES.

Appendix K: The Society of Friends in America and the
Colonization Society

Appendix L: Memorial of citizens of Boston, United States, to
the Lords of the Admiralty, Great Britain.

PREFACE

TO THE AMERICAN EDITION.

Within a few years past, several of our visitors from the other side of
the Atlantic, have published their views of our country and her
institutions. Basil Hall, Hamilton and others, in their attempts to
describe the working of the democratic principle in the United States,
have been unfavorably influenced by their opposite political
predilections. On the other hand, Miss Martineau, who has strong
republican sympathies, has not, at all times, been sufficiently careful
and discriminating