This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 Excerpt: ...from the housetops how everybody votes." One gentleman said; "Sheep will be stolen, no matter how much care is taken to prevent the theft, but we are not therefore to pass a law to legalise it." "They give votes viva voce in Kentucky and Virginia," I said. "Kentucky and Virginia are slave states," was the reply. We ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 Excerpt: ...from the housetops how everybody votes." One gentleman said; "Sheep will be stolen, no matter how much care is taken to prevent the theft, but we are not therefore to pass a law to legalise it." "They give votes viva voce in Kentucky and Virginia," I said. "Kentucky and Virginia are slave states," was the reply. We arrived in the United States about the time when the Democrats nominated Cass for the presidentship, and on the day after we left Philadelphia the Whig convention met, and put Taylor in nomination. In the five weeks that have elapsed since the latter period we have travelled more than two thousand miles, and have scarcely heard the subject made one of discussion. In England we should have heard ten times as much of Villiers being proposed for South Lancashire, or of Cobden for the West Riding of Yorkshire. We have seen enough of it in the newspapers--more than we had any desire to read--but it would seem as if the public were disposed to leave the matter, for the present at least, in the hands of the newspaper editors, and the orators at ratification meetings. An English lady, a bold thinker, and a clever writer, told us that the United States year was only one bitter contested election, from the first ef January to the thirty-first of December. We ijave not yet seen that there is either more earnestness or more animosity in an American Ann in -n English election., Of the climate, as affecting English constitutions, we cannot report with accuracy. The temperature has been to us most delightful. We have seen notices of very hot weather in New York, where the thermometer has been at 86 repeatedly during the last half of June, and at Washington it has reached 94; but where we have been it has never risen beyon...
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Add this copy of A Tour in the United States; With Two Lectures on to cart. $45.00, very good condition, Sold by Old Bookshelf, ships from Wilmington, DE, UNITED STATES, published 1850 by Thomas Johnson.
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Very Good. 32mo-over 4"-5" tall. 217pp. Half leather, marbled boards, gilt stamped spine label, frontispiece and title page engravings, folding map. Light edgewear, gutter exposure at front endpapers, hinges tight, contents evenly tanned, owner's name on front free endpaper. Folding map in very nice condition, one short clean tear repaired. Overall favorable views of the United States.
