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and the degree of estimation in which they are every- 

 where held does not at all accord with the accounts I 

 had read in a number of works on America concerning 

 the way in which they were treated there ; and 

 although the well-behaved are respected there as else- 

 where, yet it is painful to hear the word Dutchman, 

 as the Americans always call us, used as a term of re- 

 proach, even when you yourself are excepted. Every- 

 where in America, and particularly in Cincinnati, there 

 are people who, having gained a few dollars, look down 

 with contempt on their poorer countrymen, and even 

 join the Americans in abusing them, showing how 

 little they care about the esteem in which the German 

 is held; these, however, were exceptions, and I was 

 heartily ashamed of them. 



Although the situation of Cincinnati is very healthy, 

 yet it abounds in doctors and apothecaries. Numbers 

 of the former are Germans ; how they all manage to 

 live is quite a mystery. 



I was much amused with some of the religious 

 absurdities which are carried on at Cincinnati, and in 

 which my countrymen also distinguish themselves. 

 The Methodists, under the guidance of a Pennsylvanian 



of the name of N h, caiTy these practices to the 



greatest excess; on every Sunday evening they meet 

 to howl, and jump, and beat their breasts, and then 

 pronounce themselves perfectly happy. 



This party supports a paper called the " Christian 

 Apology." Its bitterest opponent is the Roman Cath- 

 olic " Friend of Truth," which only discontinues its 

 thunder against the heretical folly of the " Christian 

 Apology " when it hurls a whole volley of abuse and ex- 

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