Note 456 — Chapter IV
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The "newspapers teem with the most virulent abuse." (James Flint's Letters from America, in Early Western Travels: Thwaites, ix, 87.) Even twenty years later Captain Marryat records: "The press in the United States is licentious to the highest possible degree, and defies control.... Every man in America reads his newspaper, and hardly any thing else." (Marryat: Diary in America, 2d Series, 56-59.)