AND HIS COUNTRY; OR, SKETCHES OF AMERICA, IN 1854-55-56. BY ALFRED PAIRPOINT. "Go, little book; from this my solitude I cast thee on the waters-Go thy ways, And if, as I believe, thy vein be good! The world will find thee after many days."-SOUTHEY. LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & CO., STATIONERS' HALL COURT; TRÜBNER & CO., PATERNOSTER ROW; U 510048.54.22 HARVARD COLLEGE JUN 24 1911 Bright fund [ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL.] LONDON PRINTED BY DODD AND COMPANY, PREEMAN'S COURT, CHEAPSIDE. DEDICATION. Inscribed, by permission, to His Excellency, THE HONOURABLE GEORGE M. DALLAS, ESQ., AMERICAN AMBASSADOR TO ENGLAND. SIR, To you, as the Representative of the American Nation, the following Work is respectfully dedicated. Did it possess twenty times the ability it does, I should be only too proud to place it under your protection. None can know better than yourself the great advantages which must accrue from a reciprocity of good feeling between the twin countries-England and America. Happily the prejudice which existed is rapidly fading away, the dawn of brighter days of mutual understanding is now appearing-and with the view of aiding in this "consummation, so devoutly to be wished," I have endeavoured to be faithful to the subject I have under taken, and to illustrate the great fact, that “UNCLE SAM AND HIS COUNTRY" are not so bad as prejudice would paint them. As an Englishman, who, when a stranger and a traveller on American soil, received many acts of kindness from its people, I would not be so ungrateful but to remember, with very lively feelings of gratitude, their hospitality and friendship to me; and, therefore, cannot return it in a more appropriate manner than in dedicating a Work, treating of them and their country, to the distinguished gentleman who is now dwelling amongst us as the Representative of that Great Nation. THE AUTHOR. |