THIRTY YEARS AGO;
OR THE
MEMOIRS
OF A
WATER DRINKER.
BY THE AUTHOR OF
MEMOIRS OF GEORGE FREDERICK COOKE; BIOGRAPHY OF CHARLES
BROCKDEN BROWN; HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN THEATRE;
AND HISTORY OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE ARTS
OF DESIGN IN THE UNITED STATES.
“I think of as many matters as he; but I give Heaven thanks and make no
boast of them.”
“Of two hundred and thirteen convicts received at the State Prison of Sing
Sing, during the year 1835, ninety-six were of the State of New-York; and of
these one-third were foreigners. Two-thirds of the tax paid by the community,
is for pauperism and crime produced by intemperance.”
IN TWO VOLUMES,
VOL. I.
NEW-YORK:
PUBLISHED BY BANCROFT & HOLLEY,
BROADWAY, ASTOR'S HOTEL, No. 8.
1836.
Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1836, by William Dunlap,
in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the Southern District of New-York.
