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rr in the streets. There are no military to 
r<r keep the people in awe. Robberies are very 
rare. All these are real advantages; but 
r<r great as they are, they do not weigh with 
me so much as the single consideration first 
^ mentioned.” 
Any person that has travelled generally 
through the United States must acknowledge, 
that Mr. Cooper has here spoken with great 
partiality; for as to the morality and good 
order that prevails amongst the people, lie has 
applied to all of them what only holds true 
with respect to those who live in the most im¬ 
proved parts of the country. 
He is extremely inaccurate also. In repre¬ 
senting the people of the States as free from 
all animosities about political measures; on 
the contrary, there is no country on the face 
of the globe, perhaps, where party spirit runs 
higher, where political subjects are more fre¬ 
quently the topic of conversation amongst all 
classes, and where such, subjects are more fre¬ 
quently the cause of rancorous disputations and 
lasting differences amongst the people. I have 
repeatedly been in towns where one half of the 
inhabitants would scarcely deign to speak to 
the other half, on account of the difference of 
their political opinions ; and it is scarcely pos¬ 
sible, in any part of the country, to remain for 
a. few hours in a mixed company of men, with- 
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