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. 39.] [Footnote 14: _Travels in North America_, 1827-28, London, 1829.] [Footnote 15: Captain Thomas Hamilton, _Men and Manners in America_, Edinburgh and London, 1833. 2 vols.] [Footnote 16: _Society in America_, London, 1837. 3 vols. _Retrospect of Western Travel_, London, 1838. 2 vols.] [Footnote 17: Captain Frederick Marryat, _A Diary in America, with Remarks on Its Institutions_, Vol. VI, p. 293.] [Footnote 18: James Silk Buckingham, _America, Historical, Statistic and Descriptive_, London, 1841-43. 9 vols.] [Footnote 19: _Notes on the United States of North America during a phrenological visit_, 1838-9-40, Edinburgh, 1841. 3 vols.] [Footnote 20: _A Visit to the United States in 1841_, London, 1842.] [Footnote 21: George William Featherstonaugh, _Excursion through the Slave States_, London, 1844. 2 vols.] [Footnote 22: William Kennedy, _Texas: The Rise, Progress and Prospects of the Republic of Texas_, London, 1841. 2 vols. George Warburton, _Hochelaga: or, England in the New World_, London, 1845. 2 vols.] [Footnote 23: Warburton, _Hochelaga_, 5th Edition, Vol. II, pp. 363-4.] [Footnote 24: Alexander Mackay, _The Western World: or, Travels through the United States in 1846-47_, London, 1849.] [Footnote 25: This is clearly indicated in Parliament itself, in the debate on the dismissal by the United States in 1856 of Crampton, the British Minister at Washington, for enlistment activities during the Crimean War.--_Hansard_, 3rd. Ser., CXLIII, 14-109 and 120-203.] [Footnote 26: Gladstone's letters were later published in book form, under the title _The Englishman in Kansas_, London, 1857.] [Footnote 27: "The evil passions which 'Uncle Tom' gratified in England were not hatred or vengeance [of slavery], but national jealousy and national vanity. We have long been smarting under the conceit of America--we are tired of hearing her boast that she is the freest and the most enlightened country that the world has ever seen. Our clergy hate her voluntary system--our Tories hate her democrats--our Whigs hate her parvenus--our Radicals hate her litigiousness, her insolence, and her ambition. All parties hailed Mrs. Stowe as a revolter from the enemy." Senior, _American Slavery_, p. 38.] [Footnote 28: The reprint is without date, but the context shows the year to be 1857.] [Footnote 29: For example the many British expressions quoted in reference to John Brown's raid, in _The Liberator_ for Feb
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