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churches tunes are still sung which were taught to 

 the parents of the present generation by the obscure 

 Burbiclge. 



All the objects which were hoped to result from 

 the founding of Pineville were now accomplished. 

 The people were blessed with health, a school 

 flourished and placed the means of a classical edu- 

 cation within the reach of many who would other- 

 wise have wanted that advantage, and a church was 

 opened every Sunday for religious worship. Let 

 us now devote a short time to the consideration of 

 social and domestic life in Pineville. 



The inhabitants were all planters. They met with- 

 out any consciousness of social inequalities, and as 

 there were no persons either above or beneath them, 

 their manners were distinguished by the most per- 

 fect simplicity and absence of every sort of affecta- 

 tion. They were all cotton planters, and had, 

 therefore, the same interests, the same wishes, the 

 same hopes, the same fears. In process of time, by 

 means of intermarriage they were all connected 

 with each other, and related by blood, so that it was 

 a community in which the most perfect unity 

 of sentiment and of thought prevailed. Their 

 habits of living were as simple as their manners. It 

 was long before any enterprising person conceived 

 the idea of opening a market, so that the planters 

 were supplied from the produce of their farms. On 

 a certain day in every week a calf was killed and 



