A journey in the seaboard slave states : with remarks on their economy . gether, withsuch laudable motives, in the capital city of the United States,without being subject to disgraceful punishment. Washingtonis, at this time, governed by the Know Nothings, and themagistrate, in disposing of the case, was probably actuated bya Avell-founded dread of secret conspiracies. Inquisitions, andpersecutions. One of the prisoners, a slave named JosephJones, he ordered to be flogged; four others, called in thepapers free men, and named John E. Bennett, Chester Taylor,George Lee, and Aquila Barton, were s
A journey in the seaboard slave states : with remarks on their economy . gether, withsuch laudable motives, in the capital city of the United States,without being subject to disgraceful punishment. Washingtonis, at this time, governed by the Know Nothings, and themagistrate, in disposing of the case, was probably actuated bya Avell-founded dread of secret conspiracies. Inquisitions, andpersecutions. One of the prisoners, a slave named JosephJones, he ordered to be flogged; four others, called in thepapers free men, and named John E. Bennett, Chester Taylor,George Lee, and Aquila Barton, were sent to the Work-house,and the remainder, on paying costs of court, and fines, amount-ing, in the aggregate, to one hundred and eleven dollars, werepermitted to range loose again. , -- Had this happened at Naples, and had the men been Pro-testants, what would the Protestant world have called it % Hadit happened at Havana, and the men been American citizens,enrolling oflaces for volunteers would have been instantlyopened in New Orleans and New York. CHAPTER II GLIMPSES BY RAIL-EOAD. Dec. IGtli. From Washington to Richmond, Virginia, by theregular great southern route—steamboat on the Potomac to AcquiaCreek, and thence direct by raih The boat makes 55 milesin 3i- hours, including two stoppages (121 miles an hour); fare$2 (oQ cents a mile). Flat rail; distance, 75 miles; time,5J hours (13 miles an hour); fare, $3 50 (4f cents a mile). Not more than a third of the country, visible on this route, VIRGINIA. 17 I sliould say, is cleared; the rest is mainly a pine forest. Ofthe cleared land, not more than one quarter seems to havebeen lately in cultivation; the rest is grown over with briarsand bushes, and a long, coarse grass of no value. But twocrops seem to be grown upon the cultivated land—maize andwheat. The last is frequently sown in narrow beds andcarefully surface-drained, and is looking remarkably Avell. A good many substantial old plantation mansions are to bese
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