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from civility and sincerity. A native American 

 labourer is never rude towards his employer, 

 but he is never cringing. 



435. However, the best proof of the inutility 

 of an established Church is the absence of 

 crimes in this country, compared to the state 

 of England in that respect. There have not 

 been three felonies tried in this country since 

 I arrived in it. The Court-house is at two 

 miles from me. An Irishman was tried for 

 forgery in the summer of 1817, and the whole 

 country was alive to go and witness the novelty. 

 I have not heard of a man being hanged in the 

 whole of the United States since my arrival. 

 The Boroughmongers, in answer to state 

 ments like these, say that this is a thinly in 

 habited country. This very country is more 

 thickly settled than Hampshire. The adjoining 

 country, towards the city of New York is 

 much more thickly settled than Hampshire. 

 New York itself and its immediate environs 

 contain nearly two hundred thousand inhabi 

 tants, and after London, is, perhaps, the first 

 commercial and maritime city in the world. 

 Thousands of sailors, ship-carpenters, dock 

 yard people, dray-men, boat-men, crowd its 

 wharfs and quays. Yet, never do we hear of 

 hanging; scarcely ever of a robbery; men go 

 to bed with scarcely locking their doors ; and 



