Retrospect of Western TravelM.E. Sharpe, 2000 - 202 стор. Martineau's classic American travel narrative has long been unavailable. This new abridgment of the original 1838 edition offers an unsurpassed firsthand view of Jacksonian America. Here are Martineau's penetrating condemnation of slavery and her championship of abolition and women's rights; her incisive portraits of Jackson, Clay, Calhoun, Webster, Garrison, Emerson, and the Beechers; her critical observations of American schools, asylums, colleges, and prisons; and more. Historian Daniel Feller, author of The Jacksonian Promise, introduces the narrative, identifies the major characters, and provides an index for easy use. |
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Arrival in America | 3 |
First Impressions | 6 |
The Hudson | 12 |
Weddings | 16 |
High Road Travelling | 16 |
Prisons | 35 |
First Sight of Slavery | 42 |
Life at Washington | 45 |
New Orleans | 109 |
Mississippi Voyage | 117 |
Compromise | 126 |
Cincinnati | 133 |
New England Villages | 143 |
Harvard College | 147 |
Mutes and Blind | 154 |
Signs of the Times in Massachusetts | 165 |
The Capitol | 61 |
Madison | 74 |
Jeffersons University | 82 |
Country Life in the South | 85 |
Charleston | 92 |
Restless Slaves | 105 |
Hot and Cold Weather | 174 |
American Originals | 179 |
For Further Reading | 197 |
Index | 199 |
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Сторінка 81 - It has also been a great solace to me to believe that you are engaged in vindicating to posterity the course we have pursued for preserving to them in all their purity the blessings of self-government, which we had assisted, too, in acquiring for them. If ever the earth has beheld a system of administration conducted with a single and steadfast eye to the general interest and happiness of those committed to it ; one which, protected by truth, can never know reproach, it is that to which our lives...
Сторінка 81 - To myself you have been a pillar of support through life. Take care of me when dead, and be assured that I shall leave with you my last affections.
Сторінка x - I confess that in America I saw more than America; I sought the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations, its character, its prejudices, and its passions, in order to learn what we have to fear or to hope from its progress.
Сторінка 55 - ... the responsibility of them ; a correspondence is kept up all over the country for which no one seems to be answerable ; work is done, of goblin extent and with goblin speed, which makes men look about them with a superstitious wonder ; and the invisible Amos Kendall has the credit of it all. . . . He is undoubtedly a great genius. He unites with his ' great talent for silence
Сторінка 48 - ... and leave us to take to pieces his close, rapid, theoretical, illustrated talk, and see what we could make of it. We found it usually more worth retaining as a curiosity, than as either very just or useful.
Сторінка 54 - He is supposed to be the moving spring of the whole administration; the thinker, planner, and doer; but it is all in the dark.
Сторінка 50 - How delighted we were to see Judge Story bring in the tall, majestic, bright-eyed old man; old by chronology, by the lines on his composed • face, and by his services to the republic; but so dignified, so fresh, so present to the time that no feeling of compassionate consideration for age dared to mix with the contemplation of him.
Сторінка 61 - I have watched the assemblage while the Chief Justice was delivering a judgment; the three judges on either hand gazing at him more like learners than associates; Webster standing firm as a rock, his large, deep-set eyes wide awake, his lips compressed, and his whole countenance in that intent stillness which easily fixes the eye of the stranger; Clay leaning against the desk in an attitude whose grace contrasts strangely with the slovenly make of his dress, his snuffbox...
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