ARISTOCRACY IN AMERICA.

VOL. I.

LONDON:
PRINTED BY SAMUEL BENTLEY,
Bangor House, Shoe Lane.

W. Greatbatch, sc.
MARTIN VAN BUREN,
President of the United States.
London, Published by Richard Bentley, 1839

FROM THE
SKETCH-BOOK OF A GERMAN NOBLEMAN.

EDITED BY
FRANCIS J. GRUND.
AUTHOR OF “THE AMERICANS IN THEIR MORAL, SOCIAL,
AND POLITICAL RELATIONS.”

“Why should the poor be flatter’d?
No: let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp,
And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee,
Where thrift may follow fawning.”
Shakspeare’s Hamlet, Act iii. Scene 2.