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CHAPTER IX.
Visit to Sweden in 1868—1869—The Object of ray Journey—Experiences and
Observations During- the Same—Difference Between American and
Swedish Customs—My Birth-place—Arrival and Visit There—Visit to
Christianstad—Visit to Stockholm—The Swedish Parliament—My
Return to America—Reflections on and Impressions of the Condition of the
Bureaucracy of Sweden.
Por many years I had desired to revisit the home of my
childhood, and in December, 1868, saving good-bye to
family and friends, I set out alone on my first visit to Sweden,
after an absence of nearly eighteen years. The chief object
of the journey was recreation and pleasure; the second
object to make the resources of Minnesota better known
among the farming and laboring classes, who had made up
their minds to emigrate. This visit to the fatherland
marked an important era in my life. Being only eighteen
years old when I first left it, my impressions were vague and
imperfect. Nor had I seen much of that beautiful country
until my return in 1868. I shall now endeavor to relate
some of those impressions and experiences as faithfully as
memory permits, and should I have to record some things
that will offend certain classes of my countrymen, I do it
with no unfriendliness or lack of kindly feeling, but simply
in the interest of truth; for after having been a true and
loyal American citizen for nearlv forty vears I still cling to
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