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Show 70 Tl AVELS TIIROUGll NORTH AMERICA: over in thi 'l man1cr, wc:re {rrounded on thofe fort .d for the En!!li(h ,;> ~ convicts before the revol ution, and they .m.: \'cry feve rc.:. 'I'he German are a qui ·t, fob r, and induflrious fct of pcop~e , and arc mofl: valuabk cit izens. They generally fettl' a o·oou many tog~thcr in ne pL c, nnd, as may l.Jc fuppof(;ll, in cottfequcncc keep up m ~tny of th - cufl:oms uf th eir native country as well as their own J.lt1 p·uag . ln ,anc:1.flcr and the 11e ighbourhood G rman is the prevailing language, and nun1bers of people liviJw there are ignorant of any other. The Cermans are fome of the bell ftmncrs in the United States, and th ey feldot 1 arc to be found I ut where the land is particularly good ; wh -rever they fettl they builcl churches, and arc wonderfully attentive to the duties of religion. In th efe and many other refpeCls the Germans and their d iCenJants di fh:.r widely from the Americans, that .is, hom the dele ndants of the Enn·lin1 b ' Scotch, Irifh, and other nation ', who, from having lived .in the country for many generations, and from having mingled together, now form one people, whofe manners and habits arc very much the fame. The Germans arc a plodding race of men, wholly intent upon their own bnfinefs, and indiffi rent about that of others : a flr.111g r is never molefl:ccl as he: pa t1cs through their fettlem en ts with i nqu ifi ti vc and idle •1uefl:ions. On arriving among11: the Americans ·*, however, a fl:ran rrcr nwfi. t~\1 where he came hom, where he is going, what his name is, what hts bufinefs is, and un_til he gratifies th eir curiofity on th efe points, and snany others of equ::d Hnportance, he is never ft 1 11-~·,···d to . · . 1k ,_ 1 tn a1 11 qtHet f~r ~ moment. In a tlVcrn he mul1: !atisfy every frefh fct that comes 111, 111 the fame manner, or involve himfelf in a nuarr ' l r. · 11 'f · · . . . " ·1 t: , e1pec1a y 1 1t ts found out that he IS not a natlve wlnch it docs 110 • · 1 . . ' • re(j 111 re m u c 1 f<t rractty to d1fcover. The G rn)ans give themiclves but little troubl ab t 1· · I ] • .n. 1 . . . . . . . • ou po lttcs ; t 1cy c t:~o. L t lC!l ' ept t: [entatt vcs to fcrvc rn con o-refs and tile n.,, t ~r bl. d . b lLu e auen1 1es an ftt1 sfied that deferving men have b·cn choicn by t1 1 1 ' t) · {l J h r. le peep e at arge 1cy tl u t lat t etc men do what is befl: fur the public I d 1 c , gool, an t 1cre 1orc '* !" fpeaking ofthe Amcric;~ s here, and i~ the followin line . . mJddhng clallcs of the !'Caple which I all d r. h g s, ll JS tho(~ of the lower ;tnd ·]?ennfylvanl.i l, u c to, 1UC as are met w· ith !·1 1 t 1 JC country ,pans of abide G E R M A N S E T T L E. R S. abid · patiently by their decifions; they r c\'cre the conftitution, confciou s th:.tt they live happily under it, and exprds no win1es to have it al tered . The Ameti ans, however, arc for ever cavilling at fomc of the public mcafur ; fomcth ing or other is always wrong, and they never app ·ar perfectly fati sficd . Jr any great meafure is before congrcfs for di{c ufli oll, feemingly diflrufl:ful r the abiliti s or the integrity f the men they 1 ave clcCleJ, they me t together in their towns or difl:riCl:s, canvafs the m. tter themfdves, and then ft:nd forward inll:rntl:ions to th ir rc- 1 r fen tatives how to att. They never confider that any important queftion is more likely to meet with a S:1ir difcuflion in an aficmbly where a )]c men arc collceh.:d together from all p :uts of the ibtcs than in an obfcure corner, where a few individuals arc aiTemblcd, who have no OJ portunity of getting gcner,1l information on the fubj efr. Party fpirit is for ever creating diHcntions amongfl: them, and one m:tn is continually endcavourino to obtrude his political cr ed upon another. lf it is found out that a !lranger is from 'n:at Britain or Ireland, they immediately begin to boafl: of their own con fl:i tution and freedom, and give him to underfi:md, that they think every Englil11man a flavc, bccanfc he fubmits to be called a fubjdl:. Th ir opinions arc for the mofl: part crude and dogmatical, and principally borrowed from ncwfpapers, which are wretchedly compiled from the pamphlets of the day, having read a few of which, they think themfelves arrived at the fummit of intcllcClual cxccllenc , and qualified for making the decpe!l political refcarchcs. The Germans, as I have f.1id, arc fond of fettling ncar each other: when the young 11en of a family are grown up, they g nerally endeavour to rrct a piece of land in the neighbourhood of t! cir rcbtions, :1nd hy their indun.ry foon make it valuable; the Ameri an, on the contrary, is of a roving difpofltion, and wholly r gardlefs of the tic of confaneuinity; he takes his wife with him, goes to a diflant p<- rt of the conn try, aml buries himfelf in the woods, hundr ds of miles diflant fr m the refl: of hi family, never perhaps to fcc them again. In the 1 ack parts of the country you always meet numbers of men prowling about to try and buy cheap land; having found what they like, they immediately remove; nor having once removed, arc thefe people fati sficd; r !1le1s and diicon-t .n ted |