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she exclaims, &quot; If I don t give the boy his own way, 

 what else have I to give him ? &quot; but it is probably 

 because so many of these Western settlers have risen 

 recently from Mrs. Mac Clarty s grade in society, that 

 they have retained her maxims for the management 

 of their children : for the young people in the families 

 of the best class of society in the United States, are 

 often kept in as good order, and are as engaging in 

 their manners, as they are in any part of Europe. 



Many young Americans have been sent to school 

 in Switzerland, and I have heard their teachers, who 

 found them less manageable than English or Swiss 

 boys, maintain that they must all of them have some 

 dash of wild Indian blood in their veins. English 

 men, on the other hand, sometimes attribute the same 

 character to republican institutions ; but, in fact, 

 they are spoilt long before they are old enough to 

 know that they are not born under an absolute 

 monarchy. 



Some officers of the army, who had been educated 

 at Westpoint, a lieutenant in the navy, and a judge, 

 with his family, from a Southern State, were agree 

 able companions on this voyage, and differed as much 

 in manners from the majority of our messmates, as 

 persons of the same rank in Europe would have done. 

 There seemed, to us, to be a great want, in such 

 steamers, of a second cabin, at a price intermediate 

 between that of the first cabin and the deck. A 

 poor emigrant, who was roughing it in the latter 

 place, remarked to me truly, that they were treated 

 there like dogs, and had nothing but a plank to sleep 

 upon. He was paying highly for his wife and family, 



