A BUCKEYE ABROAD; OR, Wanderings in Europe, and in the Orient. BY SAMUEL S. COX. "The Utopians imagine that HE, as all inventors of curious engines, has exposed to COLUMBUS: FOLLETT, FOSTER AND COMPANY. 1860. 914 C8732 1860 A Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1852, BY GEORGE P. PUTNAM, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New-York, FOLLETT, FOSTER & CO., Kate Buckinghion 6/18/38 JUN 15 1943 INTRODUCTION TO THE SEVENTH EDITION. A BOOK of travels belongs to a transient order of literature. That my volume has escaped its doom thus long, is owing doubtless to some peculiar associations, friendly and unfriendly, in which the author has been more interested than the book. Since it was issued, in 1852, there have been six editions published; and although frequent applications have been made for it, especially in the West, it has been impossible for me to supply the demand. At the solicitation of my enterprising publishers, I again give it to the public. Since my travels abroad, the state of Europe and of the Orient has greatly changed. The Crimean war has not only created a more charitable spirit toward Christian nations among the Turks; but the elements of that commerce which, in 1851, were beginning to open the Orient to an enterprise surpassing the best days of Genoese adventure, have expanded into an importance beyond any of the anticipations I had written. The late war has fulfilled anticipations of a different character, for the enfranchisement of Lombardy from Austrian rule. The illy concealed discontent of 1851, has become the open war of 1859; and if I were permitted again to touch the subject in a prophetic way, I should say, that the poorly patched peace of 1859, will be the forerunner of many sanguinary fields in Venetia, if not in the Romagna and in Naples. In some of my statements as to the Papal power in Rome, and its offices and ritual, I may have been misled by the information of others—others, too, who were in authority. 1 desire that such narrations be taken with some allowance; for no information derived from others, especially from those who are prejudiced, as some of my informants were, can be entirely reliable; and a passing stranger is not always in a condition to judge with discrimination, of events and customs of which he has, at best, but a superficial glance. COLUMBUS, OHIO, S. S. C. |