THREE YEARS IN NORTH AMERICA. BY JAMES STUART, Esq. "The true state of every nation is the state of common life." SAMUEL JOHNSON. THIRD EDITION, REVISED. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. EDINBURGH: PRINTED FOR ROBERT CADELL, EDINBURGH; MDCCCXXXIII. 917.3 St qt Cap. 2 P R E F A С Е. 147 If the following pages have any merit, it consists merely in their conveying, in plain language, a faithful and candid representation of the facts which the Author observed and noted in the places where they presented themselves. He has not been accustomed to write for the press, and makes no pretensions to literary attainments. The observations which he made in America are now given to the public, solely from a conviction that they furnish a greater variety of minute details regarding the every-day habits, and the social condition of the people, in those parts of the United States which he visited, than can be found in any similar publication |