CHAPTEB XXVI. 



Visit to Virginia. City of Alexandria. Natural advantages of the State 

 of Virginia. Its comparative position in the Union now, and at the 

 period of the Revolution. Supposed effect of slavery on its popula 

 tion, its annual produce, and its school instruction. Acknow 

 ledged evils of slavery in Virginia. Slave-breeding. Annual value 

 of this produce to the State. Profit of human stock to the rearer. 

 It yields more to the State annually than all its tobacco and cotton 

 together. Free-coloured people a source of anxiety. Idea of sending 

 them out of the country. Establishment of the Colonisation Society. 

 Republic of Liberia. Coloured people shipped to it from the 

 States. Colonisation Society a failure. Grants of State Legislature. 

 &quot; Maryland in Africa.&quot; Action of the State of Virginia. Mr 

 Webster s offer. Mr Clay s plan for emancipation in Kentucky.- 

 Laws against the free-coloured in Kentucky and Illinois. Influence 

 of Liberia in repressing the slave trade. Recent action in Virginia. 

 Moral influence of the North over the condition of slavery in the 

 South. Prospects of the slave power in North America. Increase 

 of sugar culture in Louisiana. Extension of manufactures in the 

 southern States. Employment of slave labour in the factories. Its 

 influence on the future condition of slavery in the States ; and of 

 our operatives at home. Free-soil Germans in Western Virginia. 

 Influence of this class on the future state of slavery in the southern 

 States. Coast survey of the United States. Smithsonian Institu 

 tion at Washington. Its founder and its objects. Promotion of 

 science by the general and State Governments. Reserves of laud for 

 the purpose of State geological and inineralogical surveys. Free 

 evening lectures at the Smithsonian. Female freedom in Washing 

 ton. Bales of domestics. Huccum. Speaking and doing for poli 

 tical capital. Great noise about trifles. 



JAN. 31. I spent tins forenoon in steaming a few miles 

 down the Potomac, and in paying a visit to the town of 



