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WANDERINGS IN 



Fourth outside of tlie niirsery door, and never more allowed 



JoUKNEY, 



her to meddle with his affairs. 



Since the independence, the population has increased 

 from three to ten millions. A fine navy has been built ; 

 and every thing attended to that could ensure prosperity 

 at home, and respect abroad. 



The former wilds of North America bear ample testi- 

 mony to the achievements of this enterprising people. 

 Forests have been cleared away, swamps drained, canals 

 dug, and flourishing settlements established. From the 

 shores of the Atlantic an immense column of knowledge 

 has rolled into the interior. The Mississippi, the Ohio,^ 

 the Missouri, and their tributary streams have been 

 wonderfully benefited by it. It now seems as if it were 

 advancing towards the stony mountains; and, probably, 

 i will not become stationary till it reaches the Pacific 

 Ocean. This almost immeasurable territory affords a 

 shelter and a home to mankind in general ; Jew or Gen- 

 tile, king's -man or republican, he meets with a friendly 

 reception in the United States. His opinions, his perse- 

 cutions, his errors, or mistakes, however they may 

 have injured him in other countries, are dead, and of no 

 avail on his arrival here. Provided he keeps the peace 

 he is sure to be at rest. 



Politicians of other countries imagine that intestine 

 feuds will cause a division in this commonwealth ; at 

 present there certainly appears to be no reason for such 



