Excerpt from Remarks on Europe, Relating to Education, Peace and Labor, Vol. 8: And Their Reference to the United States

The ingenious author of the daguerreotype thinks he shall succeed in rendering his plates sufficiently sensitive to arrest the exact features of moving bodies. Some power like this is needed now by the political and moral historian, if he would give the true form and impress of the times in which he lives. In Europe there seems nothing constant but change. The pamphlet named at the head of this article, written by one well known for his minute descriptions of the internal improvements in the United States, performs for the region of the Upper and Lower Rhine the office of the daguerreotype in relation to facts growing out of the inauguration of the rail-road between Strasbourg and Basle. After giving a brief history of the province of Alsace and its neighbors, it describes the public works already finished and those now in progress. In relating the particulars of the opening of the rail-road, our author takes occasion to allude to the spirit of the age in other countries, and pays a tribute to American enterprise. Next come descriptions of the fetes at Mulhouse and Strasbourg; and of the speeches and toasts at the two banquets.

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