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to matrimonial connexions with the highest ranks, the different classes are frequently seen to be variously blended together.  Often you find in citizens the beautiful figure and complexion of the noblest blood; and in noble houses the coarse features formed in lower life.
In America we have not the distinction of patrician and plebeian ranks. And the frequency of migration, in a new and extensive country, has not suffered any peculiar habits of life or local manners, deeply to impress a distinctive character on the people of any state. Great equality of condition in the citizens of the United States, similarity of occupations, and nearly the same degree of cultivation, and social improvement pervading the whole, have produced such uniformity of character, that, as yet, they are not strongly marked by such differences in the expression of the countenance, the composition of their features, or generally in their personal properties, as, in other countries, mark the grades between the superior and inferior orders of the people. And yet there are beginning to be formed certain habits of countenance, the result chiefly of manners which already serve, to a certain degree, to distinguish the natives of some of the states from those of

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others.* Hereafter, doubtless, they will advance into more considerable, and characteristic distinctions. 
If the white population of America affords us less conspicuous instances, then many other nations, of that variety and countenance, and of personal beauty or defect arising from diversity of rank, and refinement in society, the blacks in the southern states afford one that is highly worthy the attention of philosophers.
The field slaves are, in comparison with the domestics, badly fed, clothed, and lodged.  They live together in small collections of huts on the plantations on which they labor, remote from the society and example of their superiors.  Confined, in this manner, to associate only with themselves, they retain many customs of their African ancestors. And pressed with labor, and dejected by servitude, and the hu-

*In some of the New England states, for example, we remark, in the body of the people, a certain composed and serious gravity in the expression of the countenance, the result of the sobriety of their domestic education, and of their moral and religious, their industrious and economical habits, which pretty obviously distinguishes them from the natives of most of the states in the southern portion of the Union.