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LIFE OF COBDIEN, {omar

1835. labourers may, the moment they tread the grass west of she
Ar, 1. Alleghanies, have employment at two shillings a day and be
“found.” We arrived at Brownaville at four o’clock, the
only place I have yet seen that uses coals for fuel. We are
now in the State of Pennsylvania. Thank God 1 am m
longer in the country of slaves.” ?
On coaches and steamboats he was constantly struck
as all travellers in America have been, by the vehemen!
and sometimes unreasonable national self-esteem of the
people. At the theatre at Pittsburg he remarked the enthusiasm
 with which any republican sentiment was caugh!
up, and he records the rapturous cheers that greeted th
magniloquent speech of one of the characters,—“N¢
crowned head in Christendom can boast that he ever com
manded for one hour the services of this right arm.” The
Americans were at that time suffering one of their to
common fits of smart and irritation under English criticism.
They never saw an Englishman without breaking out agains!
Mrs. Trollope, Captain Basil Hall, and, above all, Fanny
Kemble. “Nothing but praise unqualified and unadulteratet
will satisfy people of such a disposition. We passed by the
scene of Bradock’s defeat by the French and Indidns or
Turtle Creek. Our American friends talked of New Or
leans,” Their self-glorification sometimes roused Cobder
bo protest, though he thought he saw signs that it was likelr
to diminish, as has indeed been the case :——
«Tt strikes me that the organ of self-esteem is destined
be the national feature in the craniums of this people. The]
are the most insatiable gourmands of flattery and praise the
over existed. I mean praise of their country, its institutions
great men, etcetera. I was, for instance, riding out with
Judoe Boardman and a lady, when the Judge, speaking ¢

t J F. Cobden, June 15, 1825.
» Tp PF. O.. June 16. 1835. fee below. 1. 24 a.