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set up m our neighborhood, which we should regard 

 with indifference if on the other side of the Atlantic. 

 Things so utterly dissimilar when brought almost in 

 contact, are apt to be seized with a hatred to each 

 other, merely on account of that dissimilarity. But 

 this is not wise — it can answer no good purpose, when 

 we reflect that to hold intercourse, and entertaiu rela- 

 tions with them is unavoidable. But I feel myself 

 entering on a difllicult subject; possibly if our dislike to 

 monarchy should diminish, our love for republicanism 

 would diminish also; but why should we hate any one 

 merely for being less fortunate than ourselves? There 

 is no danger for the present, at least, that the great 

 body of the American people will look upon monarchy 

 with a dangerous complacency; but there is danger of 

 their declining, on account of their antipathy to certain 

 forms of government, friendly and profitable relations 

 with foreign states. There is also danger that our re- 

 publican feelings may degenerate into a vicious pride, 

 which will cause us to be the objects of just hatred to 

 other nations. It behoves us to be careful of this. 



Brazil contains, according to the best information I 

 could procure, about three millions of souls, indepen- 

 dently of the uncivilized Indians who inhabit the inte- 

 rior, and even in some places on the sea coast. Nearly 

 the whole of this population is scattered along the 

 coast, from the Amazon to the St. Pedro; the propor- 

 tion residing beyond the mountains, is much less than 

 that of our western states. About one million are Eu- 

 ropeans, and their descendants; about eight hundred 

 thousand are subdued Indians; the remainder are of 

 the African race. The Indians reside in their villa- 

 ges under a kind of government, combined of the civil 



