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Brentsville (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
r back into the country. How many bushels of corn do you raise to an acre? Well, we don't average more than three barrels--nor that often. （Fifteen bushels.) Are there many northern people settled round here? No, sir. Lots down at Brentsville, though. Let the traveller go to Brentsville, and he will find land higher, and crops more abundant there. So much for free labor. It began to rain heavily, and I was induced to hasten my steps. I soon overtook a wagon drawn by six hBrentsville, and he will find land higher, and crops more abundant there. So much for free labor. It began to rain heavily, and I was induced to hasten my steps. I soon overtook a wagon drawn by six horses, and driven by a negro. I never saw such a wagon in my life before. It was twenty feet long, broad and very deep. It was covered with a sailcloth, which partly protected it, and was higher at both ends than at the middle. I got into the wagon first, and then into a talk with the negro. In Fauquier county, he informed me, most all de farms was big again as in Prince William; most on them was seven, eight or nine hundred acres. His master holds eighteen slaves. Our farm, as he
Prince William (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
racy to these negrofraternizing Southern brethren? I pause for a reply. V. Fauquier county, etc. Prince William county facts education and Theologism a Free colored farmer ignorance of people negro driving of horses in H el! need of white labor Charlottesville, Prince William county. Warrenton, Fauquier county, May, 18,--I have walked, to-day, across Prince William county, on the turnpike road, from Centreville to Warrenton. Prince William county is a small one.Prince William county, on the turnpike road, from Centreville to Warrenton. Prince William county is a small one. It has a population of over 5,000 whites, 2,500 slaves, and 550 free negroes. It has a thousand dwellings. Its annual educational income is $695! Only 316 pupils attend the public schools. Seven hundred and eighty-four white adults can neither Prince William county is a small one. It has a population of over 5,000 whites, 2,500 slaves, and 550 free negroes. It has a thousand dwellings. Its annual educational income is $695! Only 316 pupils attend the public schools. Seven hundred and eighty-four white adults can neither read nor write, and nearly two thousand youths, between five and twenty years of age, are in the some benighted state of ignorance. The county, however, has church accommodations for nearly five thousand souls. It is evident, therefore, that altho
Alexandria (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
of the people, a steamer from St. Louis stopped at tie wharf, and I ran and boarded her. When I returned, the prisoner had been released. He was put over the river that night. Ii. A journey in Virginia. From Boston to Washington sail to Alexandria first impressions the county papers Choice extracts Mr. Patterson's reasons for declining a slave girl's Revenge price of Personal estate my room-talk with a slave girl Eli Thayer's scheme Virginia political Economy Alexandria county talk with a slave, Boston to Alexandria. Alexandria, May, 14.--I left our quiet Boston on Monday evening by the steamboat train; spent Tuesday in hurrying to and fro, in the hurly-burly city of New York; on Wednesday afternoon, I paced the sombre pavements of the Quaker City; while to-day I have visited the City of Monuments, and the City of Magnificent Distances and of innumerable and interminable perorations and definitions of positions. I intended to stay for a time in Washi
South river (United States) (search for this): chapter 6
ghouls, in and around the executive mansion and the capitol of our republic. Sail to Alexandria. Having thus, with expeditious virtue, resisted all offers of official position, I entered the ferry boat — George Page, by name — which plies between the capital and the city of Alexandria. It rained heavily and incessantly all the forenoon. Alexandria is ten miles from Washington by water, but I saw very little of the scenery. What I did see was in striking contrast to the banks of the Delaware. Freedom has adorned the Delaware's sides with beautiful villas, and splendid mansions, surrounded by gardens and fields, carefully and scientifically cultivated; while slavery, where the national funds have not assisted it, has placed negro cabins only, or ordinary country-houses, to tell of the existence and abode of Saxon civilization. After doling out to the captain of the boat, each of us, the sum of thirteen cents, we were landed at the wharf of Alexandria; and our feet, ankle dee
Buckland (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
icking up stones, none of them smaller than half a brick, and throwing them with all his force, at the horses' legs. He seldom missed. The wagon was laden with two tons of plaster in sacks. This is a fair specimen of the style in which slaves treat stock. Thus it is that wrong begets wrong, and that injustice is unprofitable as well as unrighteous. The wagon turned off the turnpike about three miles from Warrenton. We had passed through two or three hamlets — New Baltimore and Buckland I remember — but they did not afford anything worthy of notice. I walked, through a drenching rain, to Warrenton, which is a pleasant country village. In entering it, I asked for the best hotel. I was directed down the street. On looking up at the swinging sign, I read, with astonishment, this horrible announcement, equally laconic as impious and improper: Warren Green HEl Nothing daunted, I ventured, with perfect recklessness — or in the spirit of the Six Hundred of Balakla<
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
n as prosperous condition here as in any Northern State. Them that don't come here to speculate, but settle down, do n't buy beyond their means, and go to work, get on well. There's plenty round here who came down with small means, bought a small tract, and kept adding to it, that are independent. Others have been ruined by speculation. Are there many Northern families in this county? Yes, there are eight or nine hundred families — chiefly from York State, now and then a few from Pennsylvania, and occasionally one from Vermont. I asked the price of farm stock. He said good work horses ranged from $160 to $170, sometimes $150. He said that if Northern men came down to settle here they had better bring their horses with them — it would be economical for them to do it. Two wealthy men from the North had moved into this neighborhood a month ago, and brought all their stock with them. Cows are worth thirty dollars, and oxen, one hundred and twenty-five dollars a yoke. It wo
West Virginia (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
y departure; so I had no time to collect statistics of the price of land, or any incidents of social life and country customs. I had a talk with a Virginian at the hotel on politics, and Eli Thayer's scheme of colonization. He said that in Eastern Virginia, in consequence of the tactics of politicians and the ignorance of the country editors — who took for granted whatever figures or opinions their leaders advanced--Mr. Thayer would probably meet with resistance at the outset; but, in Western Virginia, where slavery was weak, and a free soil feeling had long been predominant, he would be welcomed, he believed, with open arms, and realize his most sanguine hopes of pecuniary success, if the affairs of the organization should be managed by shrewd and experienced business men. He said that white labor was becoming so scarce and high, that every emigration from the North was felt to be a blessing to the State. In the present canvass, he added, candidates were openly advocating the re
Venice (Italy) (search for this): chapter 6
the price was reasonable. I accordingly went up to the house to make the usual preliminary investigations. It is an old, large, once-whitepainted house, which, like the edifice we read of in sacred writ, is set on a hill that it cannot be hid. It is built on what a Yankee would call, quite a knoll — to-wit, a high knoll, and commands a most beautiful prospect of hill, and dale, and water. A country portico — I had nearly said shed--extends along the entire front of the dwelling. The Venetian blinds on the room windows were shut, and, judging from the thick deposit of dust upon them, had been shut for several months past. I modestly rapped on the door which stood hospitably open. A young negro girl, six or seven years old, came out of an adjoining room, looked at me steadily but vacantly, did not condescend to open her sombre-colored lips, but retired as she entered, without warning, and silently as death. In a moment or two afterwards a young mother entered, a woman of t
New York (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
From Boston to Washington sail to Alexandria first impressions the county papers Choice extracts Mr. Patterson's reasons for declining a slave girl's Revenge price of Personal estate my room-talk with a slave girl Eli Thayer's scheme Virginia political Economy Alexandria county talk with a slave, Boston to Alexandria. Alexandria, May, 14.--I left our quiet Boston on Monday evening by the steamboat train; spent Tuesday in hurrying to and fro, in the hurly-burly city of New York; on Wednesday afternoon, I paced the sombre pavements of the Quaker City; while to-day I have visited the City of Monuments, and the City of Magnificent Distances and of innumerable and interminable perorations and definitions of positions. I intended to stay for a time in Washington; but ran through it, like Christian out of Vanity Fair, praying to be delivered from the flocks of temptations, which hover, like ghouls, in and around the executive mansion and the capitol of our republic
St. Louis (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
trade, and had worked near Parkville for five or six weeks past. It appears that he tried to induce a negro girl, the property of Widow Hoy, to go with him to St. Louis, where he proposed that they should spend the winter, and then go together to a Free State. This programme shows how stupid he must have been, or how totally igch it would require the graphic pencil of a Bellew to do justice to — was passing down the main street, amid the laughter and jeers of the people, a steamer from St. Louis stopped at tie wharf, and I ran and boarded her. When I returned, the prisoner had been released. He was put over the river that night. Ii. A journey in Vistress, or to keep her from being sold down South. I do not doubt it. A heroic act of this kind was once publicly performed, many years ago, in the city of St. Louis. It was witnessed by gentlemen still living there, one of whom — now an ardent Emancipationist — narrated the circumstance to me. These scenes occurred, not <
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