360 A VOTE OF THANKS. 



putation from the young men of this society young men 

 of whom I am sure that I can safely say that every soul 

 of them would in a moment have risked his life in the 

 cause of honour or duty waited on me with a vote of 

 thanks for placing the true interests of an appeal to arms 

 in their proper light, and combining an assurance that for 

 the future, and where any of them were concerned, the 

 strict rules of honour, and all just avoidance of unnecessary 

 bloodshed in a duel, should be the chief object sought ; 

 and that, as in all cases one must be wrong, the barbar 

 isms and uselessly sanguinary idea of " the duel to the 

 death " should be discarded. Would that every approved 

 English gentleman who may succeed me in a visit to the 

 plains would still impress this salutary and Christian ad 

 vice upon the gallant men of America, for they need but a 

 resolute example from a known and approved man to lead 

 their high spirit in the true direction. 



Mr Carbury having kindly taken charge of the rest of 

 my camping effects, I now took leave of my friends, and 

 proposed to take the rail at six o'clock in the morning 

 thus, by way of Hanibal, to reach St Louis before my 

 mules and horses. The night before I left, some of my 

 friends came to see me, and I am sure we enjoyed the 

 whole time we were together. As a faithful historian, I 

 cannot but here relate things of some of my countrymen 

 whose birth or station in life ought to have taught them 

 more caution ; their conduct was thus narrated to me. In 

 the Far West the English gentleman of course is little 

 known, and therefore those who go there ought to be 

 doubly sedulous to create a good impression. Some of 

 my friends in St Joseph then told me that two of my 

 countrymen who had been there received the visit of my 

 informants to drink some wine with them, seated on the 



