"fiction, and the painful path of public amusement or instruction, by the pen and the press, whom the United States of America produced; and the early adventurers in all perilous undertakings are justly objects of curiosity and interest. Those who first saw the propriety of men in a new and better political state, throwing off the shackles of an absurd prejudice, in favour of European opinions and writings, as they had thrown from them the proffered chains, and rejected the pretensions of European tyranny; those who(...)".