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“It is matter of historical notoriety, that the original stock of the white population now inhabiting the United States, we’re persons who had banished themselves, or were banished from the mother country. The land they found was Favourable to their increase and prosperity; the colony grew and flourished…”

“The assumption of equality, however empty, is sufficient to tincture the manners of the poor with brutal insolence, and subjects the rich to the paltry expediency of sanctioning the falsehood, however deep their conviction that it is such.”

“Americans are not equal.”

“Other nations had been called thin-skinned, but the citizens of the Union have, apparently, no skins at all”… damn… Mrs. Trollope 🔥