Athens of America phrase is introduced.

In a letter to a friend in Philadelphia, William Tudor, a founder of the North American Review, writes, “This town is perhaps the most perfect and certainly the best-regulated democracy that ever existed. There is something so imposing in the immortal fame of Athens, that the very name makes every thing modern shrink from comparison; but since the days of that glorious city I know of none that has approached so near in some points, distant as it may still be from that illustrious model.” The letter is included in a book in 1820.*