CHAP. XXI.] THE &quot;EXECUTIVE MANSION.&quot; 25 



had not yet found out that they belonged to a different caste in. 

 society. One of our passengers was a jet black youth, about ten 

 years old, who got down at a lone house in the woods, from the 

 door of which two mulatto boys a year or two younger ran out. 

 There was much embracing and kissing, and mutual caressing, 

 with more warmth of manner than is usually shown by the 

 whites. We were glad to see the white mistress of the house, 

 probably the owner of them and their parents, looking on with 

 evident pleasure and interest at the scene. 



Milledgeville, a mere village, though the capital of the state, 

 is provided with four neat and substantial wooden churches, clus 

 tered together, the Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist, and Episco 

 palian. In the latter we found there was to be no service, as 

 the clergyman had been recently &quot; called&quot; to a larger church, 

 newly built, at Savannah. The Presbyterian minister was from 

 New England, and an excellent preacher. He exhorted his con 

 gregation to take the same view of their short sojourn on this 

 globe, which the emigrant takes of his journey to the far west, 

 bearing patiently great hardships and privations, because, how 

 ever severe at the time, he knows they will soon end, and prove 

 momentary in their duration, in comparison with the longer period 

 which he hopes to spend in a happier land. 



At our hotel apologies were made to us by a neatly-dressed 

 colored maid, for the disorderly state of our room, the two beds 

 having been recently occupied by four members of the Legisla 

 ture, who, according to her, &quot; had turned the room into a hog 

 pen, by smoking and spilling their brandy and wine about the 

 floor.&quot; 



While I was geologizing in the suburbs, the Governor s lady 

 called on my wife and took her to her residence, called here the 

 &quot; Executive Mansion,&quot; as appears by the inscription over the 

 door. It contained some handsome reception-rooms newly fur 

 nished by the last governor, but the white ground of a beautiful 

 Axminster carpet had been soiled and much damaged the first 

 evening after it was put down, at a levee, attended by several 

 hundred men, each walking in after a heavy rain with his shoes 

 covered with mud. 

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