64 INNS OF SOUTHERN STATES. [CHAP. XXIV. 



I am bound to state, that never once, where I was 

 known to be an Englishman, were any similar speeches, 

 uncourteous in their tone towards my country, 

 uttered in my hearing. 



On the table of the inn at Claiborne, I found a 

 book entitled &quot; Walsh s Appeal from the Judgment 

 of Great Britain,&quot; in which all the provocations given 

 to the Americans by English travellers, and the 

 daily and periodical press of Great Britain, were 

 brought together in one view. It is at least in 

 structive, as showing that a disposition to run down 

 our Transatlantic brethren was quite as marked, and 

 perhaps even more conspicuous, before any of the 

 States had repudiated, than after the financial crisis of 

 1841. So long as such an unfriendly and disparaging 

 tone is encouraged, England does well to keep up a 

 larger military force in Canada, and a larger navy 

 than would otherwise be called for. It is only to be 

 regretted that the Chancellor of the Exchequer can 

 not set down as a separate item, the charge for in 

 dulging in anti- American prejudices, for it is possible 

 that John Bull, patient as he is of taxation, might 

 doubt whether the luxury was worth its cost. When 

 the landlord saw me making an extract from Walsh, 

 he begged me to accept the book ; the second occa 

 sion in this tour in which mine host had pressed me 

 to take a volume out of his library, which he had seen 

 me reading with interest. 



There is a considerable uniformity in the scale of 

 charges in country inns in the Southern States. Great 

 hotels in large cities are more expensive, and small 

 inns in out-of-the-way places, where there were few 



