"He is either a European or the descendant of a European; hence the strange mixture of blood, which you will find in no other country....
"He becomes an American by being received in the broad lap of our great _Alma Mater_.

Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labors and prosperity will one day cause great changes in the world.

Here the rewards of his industry follow with equal steps the progress of his labor; this labor is founded on the basis of _self-interest_; can it want a stronger allurement?
Wives and children, who before in vain demanded a morsel of bread, now fat and frolicsome, gladly help their father to clear those fields, whence exuberant crops are to arise to feed them all; without any part being claimed either by a despotic prince, a rich abbot, or a mighty lord....

The American is a new man, who acts upon new principles; he must therefore entertain new ideas and form new opinions.

From involuntary idleness, servile dependence, penury, and useless labor, he has passed to toils of a very different nature rewarded by ample subsistence.