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civil behaviour, even from the lower class 

 of people amongst his own countrymen, in 

 Canada, the first remark that struck him 

 in the United States, was the uncommon 

 brutality or rudeness he experienced in 

 conversing with its citizens, from the go- 

 vernors and magistrates, down to the low- 

 est mechanics and petty farmers : except 

 in the large towns, even the fair sex seemed 

 to want that softness of temper, delicacy of 

 expressions, and gentleness of behaviour, 

 which, in pleasing, commands respect, and 

 excites admiration. Every where he ob- 

 served selfishness and avarice the predomi- 

 nant passions of the one sex, and want of 

 education and hypocrisy the faults of the 

 other ; the men only calculating how to 

 accumulate, and the women only studying, 

 not how to please, but how to rule, to be 

 applauded as political oracles, or reverenced 

 as religious saints. The political as well 

 as the religious fanaticism prevails in all the 

 provinces of the United States, where sects 

 and parties are equally tolerant; there being 



