In applying this to America, I speak not of my friends, nor of my friends' friends.

The small patrician band is a race apart; they live with each other, and for each other; mix wondrously little with the high matters of state, which they seem to leave rather supinely to their tailors and tinkers, and are no more to be taken as a sample of the American people, than the head of Lord Byron as a sample of the heads of the British peerage.

I speak not of these, but of the population generally, as seen in town and country, among the rich and the poor, in the slave states, and the free states.

I do not like them.

I do not like their principles, I do not like their manners, I do not like their opinions.
Both as a woman, and as a stranger, it might be unseemly for me to say that I do not like their government, and therefore I will not say so.