a singular favor, to have it in their power to relieve a friend.  A Southern man will part with his last dime to aid a friend, though, he may be forced, in less than twenty four hours, to borrow money himself.  I long lived among them, embarrassed by a series of unprecedented misfortunes, and their generosity I shall never forget.  I shall carry the recollection of it to my grave; it will, no doubt, soothe me on my dying bed.  Dear friends of the sunny South, in an evil hour I was separated from you, and what I have suffered since both in body and mind, God only knows.  Ah!  I could tell a tale, but I forbear.  There is a marked contrast in the manner in which strangers are treated North and South.  Every stranger in the South is presumed to be an honest man, until he proves himself to be a rogue.  Every stranger in the North, is presumed to be a rogue, until he proves himself an honest man.  Another Southern peculiarity is, that no one can attack the character of another, without incurring the risk of loosing his life.  The slanderer in the South is an outlaw, and the injured party incurs but little more risk in stabbing, or shooting him, than he would in shooting a mad dog; for public opinion justifies the deed, and a jury of his fellow citizens will acquit him.  This is literally and emphatically true, if the female is the injured party.  In the latter case, any relation or friend is at liberty, to silence forever the tongue of the slanderer.  If he that slanders a female is in danger, he that seduces her runs a risk tenfold.  A few days previous to my leaving the city of Knoxville, Tenn., an old man, by name M., walked into the court-house, (court in session) and deliberately shot down a gentleman, by name N. He lived after the discharge of thirty-six buckshot into his body, but a few minutes.  N. was an official character, and one of the most popular men in the county, and though I remained in the city but a few days after the perpetration of the atrocious act, I discovered that nine-tenths of the community justified him in the horrible deed.  It was not long before I received information, that the murderer of N. was acquitted.  The crime of N. was seduction.  Similar occurrences are frequent in the South.

Swearing, gambling and drunkenness, are the most common vices among Southern men; and slander, detraction, and a species of low detestable swindling in business transactions, are the vices most obvious in the North.  The better part of Southern society are regulated and controlled, to a great extent, by certain laws of honor and rules of social etiquette.  A Southerner is more likely to inquire, is it honorable or dishonorable, than is it morally right or wrong?  They rigidly observe those rules and regulations which govern society, in their social intercourse.  I will close this chapter with some remarks on slave labor; its effects on the agricultural interests of the South, &c.

It is a trite remark that slave labor is unproductive, when compared with labor performed by free white citizens; and that the agricultural interests of the country have suffered by the introduction of slave labor, &c.