Swamps Quotes
Many people in Europe looked down on America and perceived it as a primitive, uncivilized place that was a huge swamp and that Yellow Fever was rampant. The swamp and Yellow Fever accusations were not exactly untrue. However, there was much more to the Colonies than the critics claimed as history would prove. Note that universal suffrage—allowing all men to vote regardless of wealth—was considered as bad as Yellow Fever and swamps by the aristocratic Europeans of the time. Many Americans had something of an inferiority complex as a result of European attitudes about the United States, but not Clinton.