WRITING 4 (Two Americans)

 “A divided house will not long lasting. I believe this government cannot sustain a half-slave and half-free permanently.”                                                                                                             
                                             Candidate senator Abraham Lincoln, 1858


TWO AMERICANS

     There’s  no visitors to the United States who left the notes of his observations and travel with more fission than the writer and political France, Alexis de Tocqueville. His book, Democracy in America, Published in 1935, continues to be the most incisive analysis and insightful about the social practices and American Politics. Tocqueville is too astute observes not to criticize the United States, but the conclusion is basically positive.” The democratic government of spreading the idea of participating in politics to the right layers the lowest citizen.” He writes, “as well as the spread of wealth led to the idea of ownership can be affordable by all human beings.” Nevertheless, Tocqueville was just one of a long row of thinkers who are dismayed by what that kind of equality can survive before the emerging industrial system that threatens to create separation between workers with new business elite.
      The other visitors were amazed looking at the growth and vitality of the country, where they can see “the real proof will be prosperity and rapid progress in the field everywhere.” But that kind of optimistic view towards the American experiment does not mean everyone approved. One who doubts is the United Kingdom, the novelist Charles Dickens, who first came to the United States in 1841-42. ”This is not a Republican like to seen.” He writes in the letter. “This is not a Republican in my reflection… the more I imagine youthfulness and strength, it seems to get worse and the more paltry in thousands of ways. In everything that his proud – exclude his education to the community, and it’s against poor children – this Republic are far below the level that my guess before.”
     Dickens was not alone. America in the 19th century, as throughout its history, evoking the hope and desire that often collies with the reality of the more ponderous and complex. The size and invites a contradiction: American’s freedom – loving societies and implement slavery, the country’s border areas with expansive and primitive, society with cities built upon trade and industrialization were growing rapidly.