![]() Partly, politics, and narrow, and selfish views, I have endeavored to avoid. He must do, as I have endeavored to do, select what he does like, and lay the rest aside, for further consideration. ![]() The eye must be relieved by shade, if possible.įearlessly examining every thing, for myself, it is quite possible, than no reader will always agree with me, in opinion. The artists in the city, need not be told, that every picture to be perfect, must have shade, as well as light thrown upon it. In that city, I found all the faults, I could, and praised as sparingly as possible. To this general rule, my picture of Philadelphia, is remarkable exception otherwise, I must have dealt out unbounded praises only. Where I have condemned, I have taken no pleasure in doing it - quite the reverse and where I could praise, I have done it, cheerfully. It is unnecessary to say, I have fearlessly given my candid and honest opinions, on all subjects, discussed by me, in this volume and in so doing, have excercised a RIGHT, guaranteed to every citizen. I endeavor to upturn the sturdy oak, on the Alleghanies, not the bending willow, on the brink of the Wisconsin. ![]() As I travel along through this world, I would not, knowingly, tread even on a worm, if I could avoid it. If I had done injustice to any one, I can only say, I did not intend it. Would be produced, by raising them again, above the surface. Sunk as they have, by their own leaden weight, perhaps, no public good They relate mostly to the dismissed members of the late cabinet, and "the scenes at Washington." Whether those remarks will yet appear, must depend on the future conduct of those men. The remarks, withheld now, may yet be presented, to the public, in some form. But as those incidents, to which such remarks refer, interested me, when they occurred, and enlivened my spirits, when I related them, I entertained a faint hope, that the reader would be kind enough to the author, to be pleased with them also. Indeed, I hesitated not a little, about presenting my lighter remarks, at all, to the reader. And, I will not dissemble the fact, that I wrote sometimes, to cheer my own spirits, depressed by ill health, and almost sinking under that depression. To relieve the mind of my reader, amidst my most, serious reflections, I have not unfrequently, thrown into my book, something of a lighter cast of character. I hare avoided, as carefully as I could, technical terms, and have used popular language, throughout. I have had in View, constantly, in this volume, the aim, to be useful to my readers, of all ages, and both sexes and in order to be so, I have dwelt, upon subjects, that were either new, to most ot them, or, I have endeavored to present, a new view of them. Whether the selection has been a judicious one, is left to the reader. From my original remarks, I have selected only a part of them, for the public eye. Employed as I was, on my Tour, I had only leisure to reduce to writing a few leading facts, at the time, the remarks were made. ![]() This little volume is offered with great deference to the public. By Caleb Atwater." - The right whereof he claims as Author, in conformity with an Act of Congress entitled "An Act to amend the several Acts respecting copy rights."Įntered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1831, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of Ohio. 1831, Caleb Atwater, of the said District, hath deposited in this Office the title of a book, the title of which is in the words following, viz: "Remarks made on a Tour to Prairie Du Chien thence to Washington City, in 1829. LATE COMMISSIONER EMPLOYED BY THE UNITED STATES TOīE IT REMEMBERED, That on the twenty-fifth day of June A. ![]() REMARKS MADE ON A TOUR TO PRAIRIE DU CHIEN THENCE TO WASHINGTON CITY IN 1829. ![]()
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