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��the most part from English families,^ and al- though a mnltitude of individuals from other na- tions are incorporated in their population, the an- glumania is always prevalent. The institutions of the country, copied chiefly from those of Eng- land; the same laws for the administration of jus- tice in civil and criminal cases; the same language, the same enthusiasm for commerce, and the same spirit of domination and pride, render the two peo- ple very similar. The Anglo-American looks up- on every nation with disdain or contempt, admir- ing the English only, and making it a glory to draw his origin from her.f But their situation at the liead of the New World, without rivals to impede or restrain their march; an immense and varied surface of territory; their raj)id and asto- nishing progress in population, the arts and indus-

��* He has just before said, that the people of the United States brought with them to America the corruption and vices of the most degenerate nation in Europe: whether he meant to give England this enviable preeminence, by stat- ing so immediately afterwards, that they are for the most part from that country, his English Reviewers may inquire.

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t This is better and better. How will the Don recon- cile this character of the American people, or the Anglo- Americans^ as he is pleased to style them, with his down- right assertion, that they went to war with England, to -please Napoleon? — T.

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