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...yearning masses at the Baja California border and Ellis Island, beyond the passage in steerage of victims of the potato famine and the high-minded Teutonic settlements in the nascent Midwest. Just months after the Revolution was won, in 1782, French-American Writer Michel-Guillaume-Jean de Crèvecoeur said of his adopted land: "Individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men." Americans embittered by the wars of Europe knew that fusing diversity into unity was more than a poetic ideal, it was a practical necessity. In 1820 future Congressman Edward Everett warned, "From...
...even occasional photographs are arranged in rooms that were liberally draped with flags and bunting for opening week. Each room is meant to illustrate a national trait; together, the exhibits are intended to answer the question posed by the French-born essayist Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur near the beginning of his 1782 Letters from an American Farmer: "What then is the American, this...
...early as 1782, it was already evident that the American experiment would produce something new in the history of human societies. "This is every man's country," wrote French-born Michel Guillaume St. Jean de Crèvecoeur, "Here, individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world." Even as Crèvecoeur wrote, the U.S. was a polyglot mix of English and Scotch, Irish and French, Dutch, German and Swedish...
Hazlitt, who as a child intensely dis liked the U.S., was almost a U.S. writer. His sister happened upon one of 1782's best-sellers - J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer. The Hazlitts were enchanted with its lyrical mixture of democracy and agriculture. Father Hazlitt, a struggling Unitarian minister, decided to emigrate. Soon Parson Hazlitt established Boston's first Unitarian church. But ill-health and parish problems (he would rather "die in a ditch," he said, than kowtow to his congregation) drove Parson Hazlitt back to Britain. Wrote...
...Author. Hector St. John Crèvecoeur, born in Caen, France, in 1735, served under Montcalm, and turned his back on Canada after the fall of Quebec. Surveyor, mapmaker, soldier, negotiator with the Indians, he settled down as a farmer, after his marriage, in the province of New York. He "suffered much for his attachment to his Majesty's government and friends," was driven from his farm and became a refugee, protected with others of his kind by Clinton's army, until 1870, when he returned to France. After the war France sent him to America as consul...