They have what must be the ease of the lower classes in a despotic country.

The slaves have no care, no ambition; their place is a fixed one--they know it, and take all the good they can get.

The children are fat, sleek, and, inheriting no nervous longings from their parents, are on a constant grin--at play with loud laughs and high leaps.
"May 1.

It does not follow because the slaves are sleek and fat and really happy--for happy I believe they are--that slavery is not an evil; and the great evil is, as I always supposed, in the effect upon the whites.

The few Southern gentlemen that I know interest me from their courtesy, agreeable manners, and ready speech.