Society, Manners and Politics in the United States: Being a Series of Letters on North America

· 1879

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1839, BY WEEKS, JORDAN & CO. In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. M. Chevalier was sent to this country in 1834, under the patronage of Thiers, then Minister of the Interior, in France, to inspect our public works. But attracted by the novel spectacle presented by society in the United States, he extended the time of his stay and the sphere of his observations amongst us, and spent two years in visiting nearly all parts of the Union, and studying the workings of our social and political machinery. His letters give the results of his observations, the impressions made on his mind, his speculations in regard to the fut…

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