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 LETTERS

FROM

AMERICA,

CONTAINING

OBSERVATIONS ON THE CLIMATE AND AGRICULTURE OF THE WESTERN STATES, THE MANNERS OF THE PEOPLE, THE PROSPECTS OF EMIGRANTS, &c. &c.

BY JAMES FLINT.

"From the disorders that disfigure the annals of the Republics of Greece and Italy, the advocates of despotism have drawn arguments, not only against the forms of republican government, but against the very principles of civil liberty. They have decried all free governments as inconsistent with the order of society, and have indulged themselves in malicious exultation over its friends and partizans. Happily for mankind, stupendous fabrics reared on the basis of liberty, which have flourished for ages, have, in a few glorious instances, refuted their gloomy sophisms. And, I trust, America will be the broad and solid foundation of other edifices not less magnificent, which will be equally permanent monuments of their error."—General Alexander Hamilton.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED FOR W. & C. TAIT, PRINCE'S STREET;

AND LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN,

LONDON.

1822.