Letters from the United States, Cuba and Canada, Volume 2 |
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abolitionist afternoon American arrived beautiful believe Bishop boat botanical Cabanos called Capitan-Generale Captain carriage Cazenovia Chatawa Chittenango City coloured comfortable Cuba Cuban England English feel Florida flowers forest fossils friends Galveston garden gentleman Governor Havana heard hill horses hundred Indian Indianopolis journey kind lady Lake Lake George land last night leave LETTER look loquat Mammoth Cave master Matanzas miles Milwaukie Mississippi missus morning negro never o'clock obliged Orleans Osyka Palatka party passed pine barrens plantations pleasant prairie pretty race railroad rain reached Red River resembling rocks Savannah seen Seymour shore side Silver Spring sketch Slavery slaves snake Southern Spanish specimens steamer Stone Mountain stream Texas things tion to-morrow told took town travelling trees Utica volante walked weather woods yesterday young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 184 - To abolish a status which in all ages God has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow-subjects ; but it would be extreme cruelty to the African savages, a portion of whom it saves from massacre, or intolerable bondage in their own country, and introduces into a much happier state of life ; especially now, when their passage to the West Indies, and their treatment there is humanely regulated. To abolish that trade would be to shut the gates...
Página 14 - T never saw servants in any old English family more comfortable, or more devoted ; it is quite a relief to see anything so patriarchal, after the apparently uncomfortable relations of masters and servants in the Northern States. I should much prefer being a ' slave' here, to a grumbling saucy ' help' there ; but everyone to their tastes.
Página 282 - Lake." twenty, were placed in a row against one wall of the shanty, with looks so expressive of astonishment, that I felt puzzled to account for their manner, till their mother informed us they had never before seen any other woman than herself ! I could not elicit a word from them; but, at last, when I begged for a little milk, the eldest went and brought me a glass. I then remembered we had met a single hunter rowing himself in a skiff on the Moose River, who called out, "Where on the 'arth do...
Página 189 - Mormonites' are, in my opinion, consequent upon the mammonite, extravagant pretensions and habits which are really fashionable among Pseudo-Republicans. Two hundred thousand starving Irish have come to this country, and in their ignorance they assume the airs of that equality which they have been induced to believe is really belonging to American society. They endeavour to reduce to practice the sentiment so popular here — but no — that will never do. Ladies don't like their helps to say they...
Página 19 - I forgot to mention that there are from three to four hundred negroes on this estate. Mr. and Mrs. Couper have no white servants: their family consists of six sons and two daughters. I should not like to inhabit a lonely part of Ireland, or even Scotland, surrounded only by three hundred Celts.
Página 184 - The very climate itself is utterly unsuited to them. Mrs. Stowe quotes, as mistaken and absurd, the sensible remarks in Boswell's Life of Johnson respecting negro slavery, which I must re-quote as wise and true : ' To abolish a status which in all ages God has sanctioned and man has continued, would not only be robbing a numerous class of our fellow-subjects, but it would be extreme cruelty to the African savages, a portion of whom it saves from...
Página 189 - Irish have come to this country, and iu their ignorance they assume the airs of that equality which they have been induced to believe is really belonging to American society. They endeavour to reduce to practice the sentiment so popular here, — but no — that will never do. Ladies don't like their helps to say they ' choose to sit in the parlour, or they won't help them at all, for equality is the rule here !
Página 179 - It originated in a settler's exclaiming 'Huzza,' upon gaining the victory over a marauding party from a neighboring State." With these conflicting statements, I called on Mr. John C. Wright, son of Governor Wright. He remembered the visits of the Pulszkys and Miss Murray, but knew nothing of Madame Pfeiffer. He said: "I often heard my father discuss this subject. His theory was that the Indiana flatboatmen...
Página 19 - ... from three to four hundred negroes on this estate. Mr. and Mrs. Couper have no white servants: their family consists of six sons and two daughters. I should not like to inhabit a lonely part of Ireland, or even Scotland, surrounded only by three hundred Celts. I believe there is not a soldier or policeman nearer than Savannah, a distance of sixty miles. Surely this speaks volumes for the contentment of the slave population.
Página 125 - You know I am incapable of the weakness of jealousy, Peter; but what I have seen with my own eyes, and heard with my own ears, in this disguise, must command credit, however reluctantly granted.