E-text prepared by Donald Lainson and revised by Joseph E. Loewenstein, M.D. Editorial note: Anthony Trollope travelled through the United States from August, 1861, to May, 1862, visiting all the states that did not secede except California. This book is partly a journal of his travels and partly his description of American customs and culture including industry, education, government, military affairs, religion, transportation, and even hotels. To an American of today it provides a revealing and fascinating picture of life at the time. The book was first published in two volumes by Chapman & Hall in 1862. Project Gutenberg has the other volume of this work. Volume II: see https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1866 NORTH AMERICA by ANTHONY TROLLOPE In Two Volumes VOL. I CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION. II. NEWPORT--RHODE ISLAND. III. MAINE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND VERMONT. IV. LOWER CANADA. V. UPPER CANADA. VI. THE CONNEXION OF THE CANADAS WITH GREAT BRITAIN. VII. NIAGARA. VIII. NORTH AND WEST. IX. FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI. X. THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI. XI. CERES AMERICANA. XII. BUFFALO TO NEW YORK. XIII. AN APOLOGY FOR THE WAR. XIV. NEW YORK. XV. THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. XVI. BOSTON. XVII. CAMBRIDGE AND LOWELL. XVIII. THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN. XIX. EDUCATION AND RELIGION. XX. FROM BOSTON TO WASHINGTON. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION. It has been the ambition of my literary life to write a book about the United States, and I had made up my mind to visit the country with this object before the intestine troubles of the United States Government had commenced. I have not allowed the division among the States and the breaking out of civil war to interfere with my intention; but I should not purposely have chosen this period either for my book or for my visit. I say so much, in order that it may not be supposed that it is my special purpose to write an account of the struggle as far as it has yet been carried. My wish is to describe as well as I can the present social and political state of the country. This I should have attempted, with more personal satisfaction in the work, had there been no disruption between the North and South; but I have not allowed that disruption to deter me from an object which, if it were delayed, might probably never be carried out. I am therefore forced to take the subject in its present condition, and being so forced I must write of the war, of the causes which have led to it, and of its probable termination. But I wish it to be understood that it was not my selected task to do so, and is not now my primary object.