AMERICA,

ITS REALITIES AND RESOURCES:

COMPRISING

IMPORTANT DETAILS

CONNECTED WITH THE

PRESENT SOCIAL, POLITICAL, AGRICULTURAL, COMMERCIAL,
AND FINANCIAL STATE OF THE COUNTRY,

ITS

LAWS AND CUSTOMS,

A REVIEW

TOGETHER WITH

OF THE POLICY OF THE UNITED STATES THAT LED TO
THE WAR OF 1812, AND PEACE OF 1814-THE "RIGHT OF SEARCH,"

THE TEXAS AND OREGON QUESTIONS,

ETC. ETC.

BY

FRANCIS WYSE, ESQ.

"Amicus Plato, amicus Socrates, sed magis amica veritas."

VOL. I.

C LONDON:

T. C. NEWBY, 72, MORTIMER STREET,

CAVENDISH SQUARE,

1846.

BOUND MAY 26 1913

PREFACE.

NOTWITHSTANDING the variety of works of travel, the journals of tourists, and published narratives

ERRATA.-VOL. I.

Page 73, 1. 11, for " democratic learning" read " democratic leaning."
Page 82, 1. 4, for "ingredients to their republican form of government," read
"in their republican form of government."

Page 362,1. 17, for "comparative trifling," read" comparatively trifling."
Page 366, 1. 12, for "the 1842," read "the year 1842."

Page 386, 1. 18, for "weighty aid," read "mighty aid."

Page 460, 1. 6, from the bottom, for "whenever any of these institutions," read" wherever any of these institutions."

with a people, who are ever apprehensive of a discovery of their individual and national character, with the imperfections, and many eccentricities by which they are distinguished.

To supply the void that thus exists to present the British public with some correct data on which to ground its opinions, and to furnish the emigrant of all grades, and professions, with every useful instruction to assist and guide him in his hazardous undertaking, are the objects which the author contemplates in the present work. The real character of the Americans of the United States- their habits,