CHAP. XXIX.] NEGROES IN LOUISIANA. 161 



hotels were formerly of the African, now they are of 

 the European race. Nowhere is the jealousy felt by 

 the Irish towards the negroes more apparent. Ac 

 cording to some estimates,, in a permanently resident 

 population not much exceeding 80,000, there are 

 only 22,000 coloured persons, and a large proportion 

 of these are free. 



Over a door in the principal street of New Orleans 

 we read the inscription, &quot; Negroes on sale here.&quot; It 

 is natural that Southerners should not be aware how 

 much a foreigner is shocked at this public mode of 

 treating a large part of the population as mere 

 chattels. 



The following is an advertisement copied verbatim 

 from a Natchez paper : 



&quot; NINETY NEGROES FOR SALE. 



&quot; I have about ninety Negroes, just arrived from 

 Richmond, Virginia, consisting of field hands, house 

 servants, carriage drivers, two sempstresses, several 

 very fine cooks (females), and one very fine neat 

 cook (male), one blacksmith, one carpenter, and some 

 excellent Mules and excellent Waggons and Harness, 

 and one very fine Biding Horse all of which I will 

 sell at the most reasonable prices. I have made ar 

 rangements in Richmond, Va., to have regular ship 

 ments every month, and intend to keep a good stock 

 on hand of every description of servants during the 

 season. 



&quot; Natchez, October 16-tf JOHN D. JAMES.&quot; 



In a St. Louis paper, I read, in the narrative of a 



