National
Greatness And Support Of The Law Have Been The Idea Of The North;
National Greatness And Abolition Of Slavery Have Been Those Of The
West.
How they are to agree as to terms when between them they
have crushed the South - that is the difficulty.
At Dubuque in Iowa, I ate the best apple that I ever encountered.
I make that statement with the purpose of doing justice to the
Americans on a matter which is to them one of considerable
importance. Americans, as rule, do not believe in English apples.
They declare that there are none, and receive accounts of
Devonshire cider with manifest incredulity. "But at any rate there
are no apples in England equal to ours." That is an assertion to
which an Englishman is called upon to give an absolute assent; and
I hereby give it. Apples so excellent as some which were given to
us at Dubuque I have never eaten in England. There is a great
jealousy respecting all the fruits of the earth. "Your peaches are
fine to look at," was said to me, "but they have no flavor." This
was the assertion of a lady, and I made no answer. My idea had
been that American peaches had no flavor; that French peaches had
none; that those of Italy had none; that little as there might be
of which England could boast with truth, she might at any rate
boast of her peaches without fear of contradiction. Indeed, my
idea had been that good peaches were to be got in England only.
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