Life and liberty in America; . PREFACE. In pursuance of a long-cherished desire, the author of thefollowing pages left London in October, 1857, for a tour inthe United States and Canada. He ti-aversed the Union fromBoston to New Orleans, by St. Louis and the Mississippi, andreturned to New York by land through the Slave States. Heafterward visited Canada, and published from time to time inthe Illustrated London News a few of the results of his ob-servations, under the title of Transatlantic sketches, after having received careful revision, havebeen included in the present work,
Life and liberty in America; . PREFACE. In pursuance of a long-cherished desire, the author of thefollowing pages left London in October, 1857, for a tour inthe United States and Canada. He ti-aversed the Union fromBoston to New Orleans, by St. Louis and the Mississippi, andreturned to New York by land through the Slave States. Heafterward visited Canada, and published from time to time inthe Illustrated London News a few of the results of his ob-servations, under the title of Transatlantic sketches, after having received careful revision, havebeen included in the present work, and form about one thirdof its bulk. The remaining portions are now published forthe first time, and include not only the chapters on the greatsocial and political questions which, more than any mere rec-ords of travel, are of interest to the lovers of human libertyand progress, but nearly the whole of the Canadian tour. Itis not to be expected that in a residence of less than a twelve-month in America the author can have acqu
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