political ie which divide and govern thin ing republic done the author this justice we will the liberty of observing it appears a little singular that such his intention merely he has proper to swell his work inn five hundred pages for such is the size of this brief outline bj in with it an hundred pages of copied literally from mr and others we will make free to oak ua further why he gave hia t the high title of of the united of america or a view of the financial c capacity of the american people we are at u low simple ns we are to conceive how a work deserving such a tide page could be than a work since tables could alone date to enable the author to arrive at t the remarks consist of honest t place t ab wi j t ix and tt i i v i rare as chain broad of i vice and � ud many others � cat in it we find u of information familiar to every on we presume who is expected to read ih work we that this is destined to become exceedingly powerful that it for internal and that besides thi atlantic i the new empire in the west has two thousand miles of lake one miles of and one hundred thousand of internal ship and boat n and that the whole country is one continued of rivers communicating with each other the information without a ad and delivered almost in words of mr brown in his preface to the western indeed and in honest truth our seems to have waited and patiently during the eight years employed in book to catch thing that appeared in which could be useful to his purpose and to have it his service just as he found it without giving himself the trouble of the or deserving our forgiveness by adding � of his own there is certainly no in gaining knowledge in this way but we sec no particular reason why a writer should proper to publish a book of live hundred pages without adding to the f f public information or public the works from which he has it would be polite to say borrowed his information arc within the reach of all and we � are just as likely to be as of the l l having thus given us a specimen of style exceedingly unfortunate when we arc aware that he is about to act the part of critic in the course of his work and a of his information not less unlucky our author proceeds to attribute the of correct abroad concerning the united states which he pi to supply to the of travellers a sentiment in which all must and all have of late of course we arc not indebted to mr b for any new this head but content with this honest he couples it immediately with its contrast by asserting that the descriptions of the advantages wc possess by persons in their at home and sometimes from the recent men who ha c been at the bar of in their own as ami and who exchanged the well gallows for exile these and these alone it seems are writers who have praised this country as the seat of superior purity and universal c will here take leave to retort the charge of full upon mr iu thus stating what has in fact we demand of him to name what writer under � ny of these circumstances is known to the p iu e u � � of a book of in this country vi n � i � � off y fact in support of i i of the united j lis it li a thus to be cast on tut fortunate men whom a great of his fellow subjects and a still majority of his fellow � know to have of a b stem of oppression if he not do this wc shall without hesitation place this tion to the earnest desire every where employed under of casting a upon principles cherished by our people and upon the per c themselves by thus thai the writers who have � most ly of them were and justice who praised our country only to be on such however i� the great of this a regular of contrast between known and ol truths generally made the of and absurd assumed facts of which we have no proof he very seldom we have reasons right but from wrong premises and hardly ever arrives at a just conclusion except through the medium of a of reasoning t of the on which it i� founded e wiu instance a case in which will explain what we mean it occurs in the fifth chapter t treating of the laws of the united states the author says a crime in one state is not in another un der such he the only chance of the lies in a provision of the constitution which declares that a n charged in any state with or other crime who flies from justice and is found in state shall on demand of the authority from whence he fled be delivered up to be removed to the state having of the crime now this is one of those facts known to all it is noticed by m as a great defect in our system and if we not he instances the very ca e by our author us a proof of the ill consequences of this in our laws from tile fact however mr as usual draws that have in no resulted from it and in imitation of m a case having no application whatever to the subject that of gen who was killed in a in the state of new by mr an and of new york the same of the constitution alluded to which the state to surrender a criminal also tliat 