South America, and his glorious and starry
wings of liberty extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific, oh! then,
where will England be, ye gentlemen? I tell ye, she will only serve as
a pocket-handkerchief for Jonathan to wipe his nose with."

On my master entering the cabin he found at the breakfast-table a young
southern military officer, with whom he had travelled some distance the
previous day.

After passing the usual compliments the conversation turned upon the
old subject,--niggers.

The officer, who was also travelling with a man-servant, said to my
master, "You will excuse me, Sir, for saying I think you are very
likely to spoil your boy by saying 'thank you' to him. I assure you,
sir, nothing spoils a slave so soon as saying, 'thank you' and 'if you
please' to him. The only way to make a nigger toe the mark, and to
keep him in his place, is to storm at him like thunder, and keep him
trembling like a leaf. Don't you see, when I speak to my Ned, he darts
like lightning; and if he didn't I'd skin him."

Just then the poor dejected slave came in, and the officer swore at him
fearfully, merely to teach my master what he called the proper way to
treat me.

After he had gone out to get his master's luggage ready, the officer
said, "That is the way to speak to them. If every nigger was drilled
in this manner, they would be as humble as dogs, and never dare to run
away."

The gentleman urged my master not to go to the North for the
restoration of his health, but to visit the Warm Springs in Arkansas.

My master said, he thought the air of Philadelphia would suit his
complaint best; and, not only so, he thought he could get better advice
there.

The boat had now reached the wharf. The officer wished my master a
safe and pleasant journey, and left the saloon.

There were a large number of persons on the quay waiting the arrival of
the steamer: but we were afraid to venture out for fear that some one
might recognize me; or that they had heard that we were gone, and had
telegraphed to have us stopped. However, after remaining in the cabin
till all the other passengers were gone, we had our luggage placed on a
fly, and I took my master by the arm, and with a little difficulty he
hobbled on shore, got in and drove off to the best hotel, which John C.
Calhoun, and all the other great southern fire-eating statesmen, made
their head-quarters while in Charleston.

On arriving at the house the landlord ran o