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They hate the whole tribe of Travelers and Tourists, Roamers and Ramblers, Peepers and Proclaimers, and affect to ridicule the idea of men who merely pass through the country, presuming to give opinions on things which it is alleged so cursory a view cannot qualify them fully to understand. Our Transatlantic friends are morbidly sensitive as to the strictures of strangers. Re-appear, followed by nearly thirty others descriptive of the Author's tour.

Their favourable reception by the readers of that journal led to the preparation of the present volume, in which the letters referred to, having undergone a careful revision, Several letters, containing the narrative of a few days spent in New Orleans, appeared in the Patriot. To denounce what is evil and to commend what is good is at all times gratifying in doing which, he sought to describe the men and the manners of America just as they appeared to him. It was natural that he should wish to tell his friends in Great Britain, and in the West Indies, what he had seen and heard.

Travelling, leisurely, as he did, at his own expense, northward from New Orleans to Boston, and westward as far as Utica, - making a tour of more than four thousand miles, sometimes known and sometimes unkown, just as inclination prompted, - representing no public body, bound to no party, a 'Deputation sent by himself,' - he was completely free and independent in thought and action, and enjoyed advantages for observation which do not often meet. New England especially, on whose sods the foot-prints of the pilgrims had been impressed, and on whose rocks their early altars had been reared, would be to him hallowed ground. Principles of the old Puritans and Nonconformists in England, he would survey the growth and spread of the those principles in their new soil and climate with a more than common interest. Identified, too, with those persons who represent the Having entered the States by their most Southern port - that of New Orleans, and finding himself at once in the midst of Slavery, he had oppotunities of observing that system not often enjoyed by a British 'Abolitionist.' As the Pastor, also, of a large congregation of whom a great number were but a few yaers ago held in cruel bondage, he would naturally look upon the treatment of the same race in America with keener eyes and feelings more acute than if he had not stood in that relation.

So much he was disposed to attempt for several reasons. All he comtemplated was the publication of a few letters in a London Journal on which he had been accustomed to rely for intelligence from Europe when residing in Berbice. During his recent sojourn in the United States, the Author did not conceive the intention of writing a book on the subject.

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