132 LICENTIOUSNESS NOT LIBERTY. 



ing classes are " drunk with liberty and unrestraint ; " 

 injuriously set up above their true position, they are 

 inclined tyrannically to dictate to and interfere with the 

 possession of property, in the wealth of which they do 

 not share. I learnt all this not from hearsay I held no 

 conversation on political affairs with any soul while I 

 was in the United States. The opinion so recently 

 expressed by me was founded exclusively on personal 

 observation. It is shown that American politicians 

 deem that a crisis is impending; may Heaven grant 

 that my apprehensions be not realized to the full extent, 

 and that there yet may be no hand madly rash enough 

 to a cut the withe and sever the bundle of sticks." That 

 is a homely phrase, but having used it in regard to the 

 present position of the United States to the large and 

 kind audience who attended the lecture I gave at St 

 Louis, I use it again, and again assert my hope that the 

 danger may pass by. 



On inspecting the river steamer, the " Skylark," in 

 which, on Saturday, 17th of September, I commenced my 

 voyage from St Louis to Kansas city, I found an ample 

 saloon or dining-room, extending the entire length of 

 the vessel, beautifully fitted up, with a stove at either 

 end, the after-part of the saloon dedicated to the female 

 passengers. The berths, which had two doors, opened 

 into the saloon on one side, and on to the lower deck, or 

 open gallery, on the other, and were double, but I took 

 the precaution to secure mine entirely to myself, the key 

 being always in my pocket, cautioned as I had been to 

 keep it there, as there might at any time be thieves on 

 board. Over the saloon was the upper deck, to which 

 my waggons had been craned in company with a wag 

 gon belonging to a tall emigrant, which contained his 



