The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1857-11-06

| in the country here, when | tell you tina,
where am stopping ! feet as il | was too
well OF to think of complaining.
October 1rn.
don't know but you think my trip is n
Kind Of pleasure excursion. Ii don't look
exactly SO to me. Here am, away down in
the wilds Of Mississippi, with strange faces
and stranger hearts around me, in the mids.
Of people whose ways Of living and thinking
are sadly different from any thing ever me
before; with, II seems to me, no purpose to
accomplish, for keeping ueH isn't toable
thing only an endurabfe one; and with a
changeable climate and food any thing but
agreeable and healthy. They open their
eyes in astonishment here to find that don't
eat pork Even friend who has lived else.
where, and il seems to me ought to know
better, declares that fat bacon is the health.
lest kind Of meat As for their idens on
other subjects, why, there is no use of talk
ing to them about any thing that has occur
red less than ten to twenty years ago, for
they wouldn't understand it.
Baptist, Methodist and Presbyterian church.
es are the only ones known here. When
they ask me what church belong to, and |
tell them that ain s.Unitarian," see them
look az each other inqniringly, rs though
they would ask, .What kind Of church can
that be - But don't try to explain it to
them, for know very we'll they would either
not understand me a, all or be perfectly hor-
rifei
My yisa-vis Us that French y at table il
an ANIMAL wont cali him man--,f quite
remarkable physical Developments. He con-
tinuaily makes me think Of a. U am going
To make terribly gross comparison great
bail. His double chin hangs half way down
his waist, his body and cheeks are in due
proportion. while the region of his intellect
probably from not having had an equal
share 81 proper observation-disclosures rather
meagre und ashamed Of itself. His ewes are
light blue, heavy, and sleepy looking. And
wish you could witness the fellow s'lay in''
the pork
The negro woman who attends upon me,
makes my tires, eleaus my room, etc., is
numsd Luercsia. They generally call her
aioa Creeeh, 81 '.Aunt Cretia." There is,
10 me, something significant in this custom
OF Tic Sou;hcrners calling the old slaves
"Aant' or "Unele.' II seems us if they
could not quite put GU, from their hearts the
great ides Of universal brotherhood; for nj
though they are unwilling 10 acknowledge
the slaves as bearing any relation to them
yet Uncle and Aunt mean the brother and
sis.er OF my Father and Mother. | know
they do not reason thus. They scarcely
reason at all upon the subject. The custom
has doubtless arisen instinctiyely, sponta-
neously, and remains with the nature Of il.
origin and Significance unnoted.
j This Slavery system 10 great hardener Of
hearts Those who pronhcsied that my opin.
ions would change sery much after soiourn
in the Sauit, were right But they have
changed in a different way from what was
anticipated. The evil has groom, instead o.
having lcsscned in my eyes. Il is not In,
great wrong done to the slave alone, which
dePlore, but the wrong, the mighty wrong
these people are doing themselves Ii make,
them hard, dictalorial, deficient in thos,
gentle sympathics, those delicate feeling,
which make up 80 much Of the delights D,
social life aud exercise so wide an innnene,
upon our moral welfare. 1t keeps them 10
n0rant and degraded, for as children they mr.,
necessarily mach with the slaves, and WIN
does not know the effect of low association,
arpn the minds Of the young These poo,
dark-souled negroes, ignorant OF any othe,
iie tam sae hopeless one they are now living
obllfa to cover under the words and quiye
under the blows Of masters and missrcssc
who have been taught from their birth I,
consider slaves in the light Of cattle. of whom
II was sign Ut wealth and position TO ow,
~ large droveas possible---if The lot of th
i9rmer class is sad and mournful, il re-an,
with dtplorable iniiaence upon the life IN,
Character of the latter. 1t makes me- star
and shudder, sometimes, in spite Of myself
10 hear tbs crael and Eeartless things thes,
people wiz say 20 aud before their slaves -
Il is no wonder the negro has no self respect
Il Is ~ wonder that he is so little removed
frcia the brute, when the whole effort Of IA,
wh't" lnan IL - make him remember ths. h,
il .'oniy a niger - God pity them nil