By Sarah Mytton Maury
During this ebook, first released in 1847, the English writer Sarah Mytton Maury offers a private and extremely confident account of her impressions of the us upon arriving there in overdue 1845. via marriage she earnings entry to many American statesmen of her day, and the publication is devoted to James Buchanan, later President of the us. Maury portrays well-liked senators, judges, officials, contributors of the clergy and Presidents John Adams and James ok. Polk. the various descriptions are interspersed with extracts from speeches and letters through these portrayed. The e-book supplies loads of consciousness to the early nineteenth-century dispute among Britain and the USA approximately territorial claims within the north-west, the so-called 'Oregon Question'. in this query as in different concerns of rivalry or cultural ameliorations among the 2 international locations, Maury continues a place of neutrality.
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Lunatics are almost the busiest people in the world. They have their prototypes only in children. One lunatic will make a garden, another drive the plough, another gather flowers. One writes poetry, another essays, another orations. In short, lunatics eat, drink, sleep, work, fear, love, hate, laugh, weep, mourn, die. They do all things that sane men do, but do them in some peculiar way. It is said, however, that this prisoner has hatred and anger, that he has remembered his wrongs, and nursed and cherished revenge; where- 50 GOVERNOR SEWARD.
Now the lunatic asylum at Utica has not an idle person in it, except the victims of absolute and incurable dementia, the last and worst stage of all insanity. Lunatics are almost the busiest people in the world. They have their prototypes only in children. One lunatic will make a garden, another drive the plough, another gather flowers. One writes poetry, another essays, another orations. In short, lunatics eat, drink, sleep, work, fear, love, hate, laugh, weep, mourn, die. They do all things that sane men do, but do them in some peculiar way.
Mason, United States' Attorney General, both gave most honourable testimony to his zeal and ability. His first appearance in public life was as the opposer of Masonic tyranny. He has been twice governor of his native state, and was the man who withstood the Administration in the affair of M'Cleod. The politics of Governor Seward perplex me; he is a staunch supporter of the high Tariff; sided with the Whigs who gave the notice on the Oregon question; is the political adherent and devoted friend of John Quincy Adams,* and is a supporter of the Federal Government as opposed to the division of interests by state rights.