They constitute a separate fraternity at the south, not less marked than is the fraternity of Park Lane bullies in New York.

They have been arranged and classified{94} by that great law of attraction, which determines the spheres and affinities of men; which ordains, that men, whose malign and brutal propensities predominate over their moral and intellectual endowments, shall, naturally, fall into those employments which promise the largest gratification to those predominating instincts or propensities.

The office of overseer takes this raw material of vulgarity and brutality, and stamps it as a distinct class of southern society.

But, in this class, as in all other classes, there are characters of marked individuality, even while they bear a general resemblance to the mass.

Mr.Gore was one of those, to whom a general characterization would do no manner of justice.