It was Mrs. Trollope who (c. 1827), in Domestic Manners of the Americans,

first noticed that amongst the "incessant, remorseless spitting" and the virtual absence of anything else she was used to in the way of manners, domestic or otherwise, there was something besides manners missing; something, which she refers to initially as the "levelling effects" which the 'simple' manner of living in what was then Western America had on the manners of the people.  Then she quotes another Englishman to the effect that Americans lack "loyalty."  She notes that it is virtual treason in the Republic to call anyone "servant"--the politically correct word even then was "help."  But it's when Mrs. Trollope begins to notice American children that she betrays real outrage:  "...rude indifference is so remarkably prevalent in the manners of American children.  [I observed] total want of discipline and subjection universally among children of all ages.  In the state of Ohio they have a law...that if a father strike his son, he shall pay a fine of ten dollars for every such offense...Such a law, they say, generates a spirit of freedom.  What else may it generate?"