... of society. You are told that I go about dressed in a very expensive, cleanly manner. I assure you, fellow-citizens, that when I was a young man, and was a sailor before the mast on the coast of California , it became a part of my labors to carry rawhides down the banks to the sea, and wash them, and put them on board the vessel, and I had to put them in a pit to do so, and when I was washing them and s...