Some lessons we of the North might learn from the South, and one is a greater regard for human life.

I asked the captain of our boat if they had any accidents in these waters.

He said, 'We don't kill people at the South, we gave that up some years ago; we leave it to the North, and the North seems to be capable of doing it.' "The reason for this is, that they are in no hurry.

The Southern character is opposed to haste.

Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry.
"Every one at the South introduces its 'peculiar institution' into conversation.
"They talk as I expected Southern people of intelligence to talk; they lament the evil, and say, 'It is upon us, what can we do?
To give them freedom would be cruel.' "Southerners fall back upon the Bible at once; there is more of the old-fashioned religion at the South than at the North; that is, they are not intellectual religionists.