d age, or his children, or to employ in the extension
of his business.

"For as there exists in America no standing army, its inhabitants
may retain their children, as the best possible assistants in
labor, and train, govern, and discipline them as can only properly
done under the eye of a parent. Furthermore, in that country every
one is permitted to enjoy the fullest civil and religious liberty.
These are the advantages to be expected from an emigration to
America, _and he who anticipates more will find himself bitterly
deceived_. But a man who can be content with this, and can live
actively, moderately, and frugally, will here, better than in any
other land in the world, ultimately attain to happiness and
fortune. In times like ours, when every branch of industry is
crowded, when tender parents think with grief and trouble on the
future prospects of their children, there are for the emigrant no
other resources save those held out by a full and bountiful
nature, and no means of livelihood which may be so certainly
depended upon as those afforded by agriculture. Here it is that
industry throws open the widest field, and affords the fullest
opportunity of doing good."

In the following extract, our author proceeds to set forth the national
character of the American:

"The national character of the American has been greatly
misunderstood; few travellers seem, in fact, to have understood
it, since they mention it as something as new and unfounded as the
country itself, and yet it is so well confirmed--so well
established in every elevated and noble characteristic of the
human race, that it may confidently be placed in comparison with
that of the most celebrated nations of antiquity. Springing
originally from England, they have the pride and manly confidence
of the Briton, for through their ancestry they claim an equal
share of all which gives dignity to those inheriting glory and a
great name. Their forefathers were those brave religious pilgrims
who were transferred by British laws (or rather by old German) and
British genius to the shores of the new world--to there give to
those laws and genius an immortality. Building still further on
this new land, they opened the temple of the Lord to all his
followers, and received with open arms all the unfortunate or
oppressed exiles