breath, and privilege recovers from its fears. Among the people of the
continent, especially among the Germans, Italians, and Russians, there
are thousands who believe that murder is but a pastime here—that the
bowie-knife and pistol are used upon any provocation—that, in fact,
we are a nation of assassins, without law, without morality, and
without religion. They are taught to believe these things by their
newspapers, which, published under the eye of Government, allow no
intelligence but of murders, bowie-knife fights, &c., coming from
America, to appear in their columns. By these, therefore, only is
America known to their readers; and they are very careful to instil