. Domestic manners of the Americans . observations I have made. One of the spectacles which produced the great-est astonishment on us all was the Republican sim-plicity of the courts of justice. We had heardthat the judges indulged themselves on the benchin those extraordinary attitudes which, doubtless,some peculiarity of the American formation leadsthem to find the most comfortable. Of this we weredetermined to judge for ourselves, and accord-ingly entered the court when it was in full busi-ness, with three judges on the bench. The annexedsketch will better describe what we saw than anything
. Domestic manners of the Americans . observations I have made. One of the spectacles which produced the great-est astonishment on us all was the Republican sim-plicity of the courts of justice. We had heardthat the judges indulged themselves on the benchin those extraordinary attitudes which, doubtless,some peculiarity of the American formation leadsthem to find the most comfortable. Of this we weredetermined to judge for ourselves, and accord-ingly entered the court when it was in full busi-ness, with three judges on the bench. The annexedsketch will better describe what we saw than anything I can write. Our vdnter passed rapidly away, and pleasantlyenough, by the help of frosty walks, a little skait-ing, a visit to Big-Bone Lick, and a \isit to theshaking Quakers, a good deal of chess, and a gooddeal of reading, notwithstanding we were almostin the back woods of Western America. The excursion to Big-Bone Lick, in Kentucky,and that to the Quaker village, were too fatiguingfor females at such a season, but om: gentlemen. i i OF THE AMERICANS. 191 brought us home mammoth bones and shakingQuaker stories in abundance. These singular people, the shaking Quakers ofAmerica, give undeniable proof that communitiesmay exist and prosper, for they have continuedfor many years to adhere strictly to this manner oflife, and have been constantly increasing in have formed two or three different societiesin distant parts of the Union, aU governed by thesame general laws, and all uniformly prosperousand flourishing. There must be some sound and wholesomeprinciple at work in these estabhshments to causetheir success in every undertaking, and this prin-ciple must be a powerful one, for it has to combatmuch that is absurd, and much that is mis-chievous. The societies are generally composed of aboutan equal proportion of males and females, manyof them being men and their wives ; but they areaU bound by their laws not to cohabit religious obserxances are wholly
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