In the Eastern States the instruction and practical education of the people have been most perfected, and religion has been most thoroughly amalgamated with liberty.

Now these habits, opinions, customs, and convictions are precisely the constituent elements of that which I have denominated manners.
In the Western States, on the contrary, a portion of the same advantages is still wanting.

Many of the Americans of the West were born in the woods, and they mix the ideas and the customs of savage life with the civilization of their parents.

Their passions are more intense; their religious morality less authoritative; and their convictions less secure.

The inhabitants exercise no sort of control over their fellow-citizens, for they are scarcely acquainted with each other.