[F] Sismondi’s History of the French.

[G] Benoit, Hist.  Rev. Edict of Nantes, book 7.

[H] Dr. Baird, vol.  I. p. 174.

[I] Oxford town records.

[J] Vandenkemp’s Alb.  Rec. viii.

[K] Instances are frequent where Southern gentlemen form these left-handed connections, and rear two sets of differently colored children; but it is not often that the two families occupy the same domicil.  The only other case within my personal knowledge was that of the well-known President of the Bank of St. M——­, at Columbia, Ga.  That gentleman, whose note ranked in Wall Street, when the writer was acquainted with that locality, as ‘A No. 1,’ lived for fifteen years with two ‘wives’ under one roof.  One—­an accomplished white woman, and the mother of several children—­did the honors of his table, and moved with him in ‘the best society;’ the other—­a beautiful quadroon, also the mother of several children—­filled the humbler office of nurse to her own and the other’s offspring.

In conversation with a well-known Southern gentleman, not long since, I mentioned these two cases, and commented on them as a man educated with New England ideas might be supposed to do.  The gentleman admitted that he knew of twenty such instances, and gravely defended the practice as being infinitely more moral and respectable than the more relation existing between masters and slaves.

[L] Among the things of which slavery has deprived the black is a name.  A slave has no family designation.  It may be for that reason that a high-sounding appellation is usually selected for the single one he is allowed to appropriate.

[M] It is not now improper to broach this button ruse, because it was recently discovered at the South and is guarded against.