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NORTH AMERICA
by ANTHONY TROLLOPE

VOLUME I.

CONTENTS OF VOL. I.

CHAPTER I
.
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER II
.
Newport--Rhode Island
CHAPTER III

.
Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont
CHAPTER IV
.
Lower Canada
CHAPTER V
.
Upper Canada
CHAPTER VI
.
The Connection of the Canadas with Great Britain
CHAPTER VII
.
Niagara
CHAPTER VIII
.
North and West
CHAPTER IX
.
From Niagara to the Mississippi
CHAPTER X
.
The Upper Mississippi
CHAPTER XI
.
Ceres Americana
CHAPTER XII

.
Buffalo to New York
CHAPTER XIII
.
An Apology for the War
CHAPTER XIV
.
New York
CHAPTER XV
.
The Constitution of the State of New York
CHAPTER XVI
.
Boston
CHAPTER XVII
.
Cambridge and Lowell
CHAPTER XVIII
.
The Rights of Women
CHAPTER XIX
.
Education
CHAPTER XX
.
From Boston to Washington

NORTH AMERICA.
CHAPTER I
.
INTRODUCTION.
It has been the ambition of my literary life to write a book about the
United States, and I had made up my mind to visit the country with this
object before the intestine troubles of the United States government had
commenced. I have not allowed the division among the States and the
breaking out of civil war to interfere with my intention; but I should not
purposely have chosen this period either for my book or for my visit. I
say so much, in order that it may not be supposed that it is my special
purpose to write an account of the struggle as far as it has yet been
carried. My wish is to describe, as well as I can, the present social and
political state of the country. This I should have attempted, with more
personal satisfaction in the work, had there been no disruption between
the North and South; but I have not allowed that disruption to deter me
from an object which, if it were delayed, might probably never be
carried out. I am therefore forced to take the subject in its present
condition, and being so forced I must write of the war, of the causes
which have led to it, and of its probable termination. But I wish it to be
understood that it was not my selected task to do so, and is not now my
primary object.
Thirty years ago my mother wrote a book about the Americans, to
which I believe I may allude as a well-known and successful work
without being guilty of any undue family conceit. That was essentially
a woman's book. She saw with a woman's keen eye, and described with
a woman's light but graphic pen, the social defects and absurdities
which our near relatives had adopted into their domestic life. All that
she told was worth the telling, and the telling, if done successfully, was
sure to produce a good result. I am satisfied that it did so. But she did
not regard it as a part of her work to dilate on the nature and operation
of those political arrangements which had produced the social
absurdities which she saw, or to explain that though such absurdities
were the natural result of those arrangements in their newness, the
defects would certainly pass away, while the political arrangements, if
good, would remain. Such a work is fitter for a man than for a woman,
I am very far from thinking that it is a task which I can perform with

satisfaction either to myself or to others. It is a work which some man
will do who has earned a right by education, study, and success to rank
himself among the political sages of his age. But I may perhaps be able
to add something to the familiarity of Englishmen with Americans. The
writings which have been most popular in England on the subject of the
United States have hitherto dealt chiefly with social details; and though
in most cases true and useful, have created laughter on one side of the
Atlantic,