Part 3 (2/2)
_Sunday, 9th_--I rode with the captain, in his chariot, to the beautiful seat and extensive powder mills of E S Dupont, Esq[145] on the Brandywine creek, a fine strea unpowder Mr Dupont, who pressingly invited us to dine, seee capital, which soether with the doors and s of his elegantthis twenty enerally used as an outward fence, but they are badly e heaps of liathered and burnt forstone into bread
We received this evening three or four physicians {401} and other passengers, to the number of ten or twelve, on board the _Wade Haot under weigh, sailing into the bay of Delaware, and by noon arrived opposite to the light-house
A faland, of the naht an estate fro at Philadelphia, at a price 200 or 300 per cent above its value They paid in part about 6,000 dollars, but being unable to pay the re no written contract, he induced theo to the wilds of Ohio, where, he said, he had much land at a low price, which they should have for the ave the, they found that he was unknown, and had no land, nor agent; and they were in consequence forced to sell their horses, waggon, and every necessary, to enable them, in unspeakable distress, to return to prosecute this scoundrel; but they had no evidence against him, and therefore found it advisable to lose theirabout 2,000 dollars left, they purchased and stocked a farer and better than the one for which they were to have paid 8,000, or 10,000 dollars Old countrymen, it is said, make the most complete rascals
_11th_--Now at sea, exposed to head-winds and sea-sickness An Irish gentleman from Missouri, {402} states that last week, on board the steam-boat, he y Thisto prove that Adam, Noah, and all the prophets, and patriarchs, down to Jesus Christ, were blacks, and that a small portion of mankind, and that the worst, are whites, of whoenitor
The Missouri Irishes of which he deems to be yet dubious and prospective He says that society is bad, and that the people are unprincipled
_12th_--Two old Gerentlemen, heroes of the revolution, now on board, state, that they knew the accomplished and unfortunate Major Andre When taken by threeto seduce West Point, he was dressed as a citizen, instead of appearing in the regiravated his crie pecuniary compensation to be released, but the threeto witness, his death; and the Aoverniven up the traitor Arnold He was fairly tried, and no precipitation evinced towards hientlemanly treatment, subreat firmness prepared himself for it Three months elapsed between his apprehension and execution But when he was led out to execution, and saw the gallows instead of the rifle, his firantly dressed in hisand country;” at which General Green, the American co army on this sad occasion, shook his head, and observed, ”No! you die for your cowardice, and like a coward!”
General Washi+ngton signed the order for his death with great reluctance; but the army were dissatisfied and demanded the sacrifice The exaeneral consequence calculated to deter men of honour and respectability from such military meanness
Major Andre hoped to the last to escape The tories, of whom he was one, had previously murdered some of the citizens and officers, in consequence of which, General Washi+ngton deter one of the British tory officers then prisoners, and ordered them to draw lots to decide who of their nuill, who, but for the French influence of Count Vergennes, and a most pathetic letter from the baronet's mother, would have been executed[146]
{404} The quakers, about New Jersey, were very loyal, and locked up the wells, and withheld all aid fro by Cape Hatteras, to pass which occupied two days A strong current of air is here found, rushi+ng to the land, accoany mountains, towards which this current rushes, is said to be the cause
_18th_--At three o'clock this afternoon I landed at Charleston, and found all nature in its etables are in great abundance, and the peach-trees full of fruit I found that my much respected friend, N Russell, Esq had died only a fortnight since; he kindly inquired after me in his extremity
_19th_--I ht twilled nankeen trowsers for two dollars and a half London clothes of good and best kinds sell at lower prices than in London
_Rattlesnakes_--A gentleman inforh, and 26 years old Its age is known by its tail
It was near biting hihbour of his left his house in search of his swine, and being long away, his ent after him and found him dead, killed by a snake, to the bite of which the poor deceased had applied a quid of tobacco, then found sticking on the wound Another neighbour, {405} as also bitten, ed to walk home before he fell, but died very soon after his arrival I was told, also, of a planter, out with his dogs and rifle after a deer, which he shot; but on bringing it to lay on the horse, a rattlesnake struck thetied to a tree was starved to death Thus they were all found dead in one heap together
_20th_--By conversation with Judge King, to whoht's paro case was retted Mr King says that it was indiscreet in me to report facts, except from the evidence of my own senses! If no testimony is to be received, but that of our own eyes, half the evidence in the world is worthless The Carolinians love slavery, and hate all who hate it Both Mr King and Mr Duncan state, that in consequence of that affair, and of ory should prosecute me for an advertise the claiainst him, I should meet with but little mercy from the jury!
_21st_--Called on Patrick Duncan, Esq, and took a final leave of hiar-canes, porass of South America, soft as silk in hand
{406} Received, from my warm-hearted Irish friend, Mr Wood, 50 dollars, an unsolicited loan, although he knows reater than almost any I have yet found in America
The slave-owners, in this state, must maintain all their helpless and infireable to the parish, or state O humanity, where art thou!!! As a punishe, or the idleness of youth, a _nigger_ is stripped naked, well flogged, then dressed all over with treacle (orup by his heels on a tree, in a swamp full of flies andand bleed hi luenious torture this! how refined! how honourable to the taste and ingenuity of a nation, the freest of the free, and who boast of superabundant polish and civilization!
When with ely, in May last, I was presented with a beautiful black feiven and intended to be sent as a keepsake toqualified for a nurse at sea, nor indeed by land, declined this well-intended gift The Major then possessed a poor negro, ishi+ng to die, was constantly detected in the act of eating dirt or lu daily! I ht have had him, and branded him with uish one herd from another, and if they stray, or are stolen, to advertise their persons, correctly describing the mark, or brand, which is deeply burnt in, and never obliterated, unless it is cut out!
_Sunday, 23rd_--I bade, thisand final farewell to Charleston city, and to all its bugs, ators, and a race of people, many of whom seem not ht's pamphlet on slavery, for his Excellency, Governor Geddiss, the Attorney-General Haines, the editor of the Courier, Mr Tho, the latter of whom promised to keep his a profound secret The press seeovernht I found myself at sea, 60 miles from Charleston, in the _President_ for New York Fare, 25 dollars
_25th_--I sao young alligators erapher, Dr Morse)[147] states, that at New Haven University, Connecticut, an education of four years costs only 1,000 dollars, board included The saentleman states, that in Connecticut, republicanisreater purity than in any other part of the union The farenerally live economically and comfortably, surrounded with a cheap abundance of all the {408} necessaries of life, but they keep no domestic servants, roes, scarcely one is to be seen in a day's travel The people generally are so well educated in this state, that almost any man is qualified for a schoolmaster in any of the sister states Dr Paley's e
_26th_--A young gentleman on board, from the state of Albania, says that Mobile, out of 600, lost 530 inhabitants, by the yellow fever last summer In winter the population is fro through this state with a white servant behind hied the landlord to let hireed to In a few minutes up came two native travellers, _equals_, who entered without cerean to curse the landlord for perentleman should have the room to himself until other travellers ca we ht-house The scenery here, all the way up to the city of New York, is delightful Perhaps the views presented by this city and neighbourhood are unequalled, both as it respects the beauties of nature and the works of art I landed at six o'clock, and was introduced by Messrs Morse {409} and Co to the boarding-house of Mrs Mudge, where I ht, now editor of the New York Advertiser[148] In person this gentleman is said to be much like the Doctor