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The Travelling Bachelor; Or, Notions of the Americans
The Travelling Bachelor Or Notions of the Americans Author:James Fenimore Cooper General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1852 Original Publisher: Stringer and Townsend Subjects: United States Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary History / United States / General History / United States / 19th Century Travel / United States / General Notes: This is a black and w... more »hite OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: NOTES. NOTE A. -- Page 6. I Owe you an explanation," my friend continued, after tlie usual language of civility, " for the little interest that 1 have manifested m your persevering attempts to obtain such English works as may form a preparation for your intended travels in America. I will make no further secret of the cause, and when you hear my sentiments on this matter, I think you will learn those which are common to a very great majority of my countrymen. " At the period when I grew into manhood, that bitterness of feeling which had been created in the United States towards Great Britain, by the struggle of the revolution, had greatly subsided, in a return of the kindness which was natural to affinity of blood, and to a community of language, usages, and opinions. Our object in the war had been obtained. When we reverted to its events, it was rather with exultation than hostility. Scenes of personal suffering, and perhaps of personal wrongs, were forgotten in the general prosperity. It is not necessary to ascribe any peculiar qualities of magnanimity, or of Christian charity, to the American people, in order to maintain that fewer instances of a generous and manly forgetfulness can be furnished in the history of nations, than what they generally manifested towards their former rulers. The past presented recollections on which they were not ashamed to dwell, while th...« less