IN

GREAT BRITAIN.

1831-1835.

BY

CALVIN COLTON.

IN TWO VOLUMES

VOL. I.

NEW-YORK:

PUBLISHED BY HAKPER & BROTHERS

No. 82 CLIFF-STREET.

167 vil

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1835, By HARPER & BROTHERS,

In the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New-York.

PRINTED BY WILIAM F. COLYER.

INTRODUCTION.

THERE are three capital and leading principles, not to speak of more, which distinguish American society from British and European. These are, an abjuration of monarchy, of an aristocracy, and of a union of religion with the arm of secular power. Each of these topics will be found prominent on these pages in their place.

In regard to the last, I have done little else than to exhibit a chapter of facts, showing the operation, the tendency, and the results of a union of church and state. Having submitted that chapter to some friends, since it was too late to profit by their hints, they have said to me, "This is, indeed, a sad picture, and yet a suitable disclosure; but we should like also if you had shown us more of that bright side, which pure Christianity leads to, and if you had done more to secure all minds against a tendency to the conclusion, that religion is identified with such abuses."

I am glad that this suggestion affords me an opportunity of saying a word here on this point. Perhaps I am wrong; but I believe, from all the observa