Sentence:  And he said, what he had planned in his head from the start, if we got Jim out all safe, was for us to... take him back up home on a steamboat, in style, and pay him for his lost time, and write word ahead and get out all the niggers around, and have them <WSD>waltz</WSD> him into town with a torchlight procession and a brass-band, and then he would be a hero, and so would we. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To move with fanfare.