& Publications . I know of
no man that has traveled more extensively, am
ong all natiouns in the nineteenth centaury than
Mr Buckingham his travels in Asia & esspecially
in India have been Published through the United States
& been read with much interest, & Mr Buckingham
had just returned to from a tour through the
United States whare he had spent two years
in visiting nearly evry city & town from
to , & to , therefore
I felt the more interested in hearing an address
from him, the house was filled, we obtained
a comfortable seat in front of him, & in conse-
quence of our making some speaches in London
in some of the Temperance meetings in advooating
that cause, some of the Committy informed
Mr Buckingham that we were American Citizens
& friends to the cause, which caused him to notice
us vary particular while in his address & giving adety
of his late travels through the United States, he
spoke of his Landing at New York & holding tempe-
rance meetings in that City & in &
, , Bangor, & through the Southern
States , New orleans, , went up
the . held a camp Meeting at Lexington
called at St Louis, crossed the country through
& extolled the country. spoke of the
beauty of the prairies, called at went
through the whole length of the Lakes, through
& , held a temperance
meeting in the Parliamentary house, as he also
did in the house of Congress, & then returned
to , & will publish in book form his travels
in his speech he gave much prefferance to
America as being ahead of any other nation
in Temperance & Education & perseverance
& other things that he spoke of he done justice to
the beauty of the country fertility of the soil
equality of the people &c, Mr Buckingham is
an aged man but possesses great intelligence
intellectual powers, knowledge of human Nature
the most profound reasoner, & humble in
his appearance. After Mr Buckingham closed
his speech, several speaches were deliverd
by others, & the intervals occupyed by a band
of music, after which the room was
& Publications . I know of
no man that has traveled more extensively, am
ong all natiouns in the nineteenth centaury than
Mr Buckingham his travels in Asia & esspecially
in India have been Published through the United States
& been read with much interest, & Mr Buckingham
had just returned to from a tour through the
United States whare he had spent two years
in visiting nearly evry city & town from
to , & to , therefore
I felt the more interested in hearing an address
from him, the house was filled, we obtained
a comfortable seat in front of him, & in consequence of our making some speaches in London
in some of the Temperance meetings in advooating
that cause, some of the Committy informed
Mr Buckingham that we were American Citizens
& friends to the cause, which caused him to notice
us vary particular while in his address & giving adety
of his late travels through the United States, he
spoke of his Landing at New York & holding temperance meetings in that City & in &
, , Bangor, & through the Southern
States , New orleans, , went up
the . held a camp Meeting at Lexington
called at St Louis, crossed the country through
& extolled the country. spoke of the
beauty of the prairies, called at went
through the whole length of the Lakes, through
& , held a temperance
meeting in the Parliamentary house, as he also
did in the house of Congress, & then returned
to , & will publish in book form his travels
in his speech he gave much prefferance to
America as being ahead of any other nation
in Temperance & Education & perseverance
& other things that he spoke of he done justice to
the beauty of the country fertility of the soil
equality of the people &c, Mr Buckingham is
an aged man but possesses great intelligence
intellectual powers, knowledge of human Nature
the most profound reasoner, & humble in
his appearance. After Mr Buckingham closed
his speech, several speaches were deliverd
by others, & the intervals occupyed by a band
of music, after which the room was