The life and times of William Lowndes Yancey . rican, inbondage, was the basis of the evolutionary economy leading tohis emancipation. When the youthful Victoria ascended theEnglish throne, by her side stood the companion of her child-hood and her youth, Miss Amelia Murray. First among thechosen companions of the crowned Queen was Miss passed, the Prince Consort and his royal wife and hercourt had read and wept over Uncle Toms Cabin, andthanked the author. Excitement raged in the United Statesover the Nebraska Kansas bill, there was a North and a Southapparent to the slowest appre
The life and times of William Lowndes Yancey . rican, inbondage, was the basis of the evolutionary economy leading tohis emancipation. When the youthful Victoria ascended theEnglish throne, by her side stood the companion of her child-hood and her youth, Miss Amelia Murray. First among thechosen companions of the crowned Queen was Miss passed, the Prince Consort and his royal wife and hercourt had read and wept over Uncle Toms Cabin, andthanked the author. Excitement raged in the United Statesover the Nebraska Kansas bill, there was a North and a Southapparent to the slowest apprehension. Miss Murray, attendedonly by a maid servant, landed at Boston, in full sympathywith the anti-slavery feeling of the English court and theNorth. Having traversed the free States, leisurely, as farwest as Pittsburgh, accepting the private hospitality lavishedon her, she arrived at Baltimore, the guest of a gentlemansfamily. More in apprehension than curiosity, she had lookedforward to a first contact with slavery and slave masters. Her. ^^^^7^<^^^^ THE ARGUMENT CONTINUED. 433 carriage was driven to the stoop by a slave coachman, she wasmet there by a slave man servant, and attended to her apart-ments by a slave maid servant. She discovered the first de-portment of servants she had seen in America. At dinner,she found herself in the presence of a thorough dignity of the gentlemen was complete, but most of allpleasant surprises was the absence, in the ladies, of the sharpaccent and peculiar pronunciation which she had, regretfully,observed in her earlier American experiences. At Washing-ton, she became the associate of Southern statesmen andSouthern society, by law of natural attraction. From Rich-mond she was taken to see the great wheat farm, Westover,and was taken to see the slaves in their houses and at Charleston she visited the cotton and rice plantations ofthe vicinity. She pursued her way as far as Galveston, wroteletters to an English
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