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[Chap. V. 



future of that beautiful boy. How I wish I could buy him 

 and bring him to England : but I cannot afford such prices. I 

 gave the man to understand what we English thought of 

 the system : as to him, if he could turn a few hundred dollars 

 by buying and selling negroes, he had no objection to do so. 

 O Lord, how long shall such things be? and wilt Thou look 

 down on this poor boy, and keep him from evil : and all the 

 others that are in bondage?" Philip was surprised at the 

 number of slaves nearly white, whom he met in this State : sad 

 tokens that those who made their boast of freedom became the 

 fathers of slaves, having first become the slaves of their lusts. 

 On other occasions he let his hatred of slavery be known. At 

 one inn he recorded it in the hotel-book, with his name. 

 At another hotel he met at the breakfast table "two horrid 

 men who looked ready for slave-driving, or any kind of wicked- 

 ness : they were swearing terribly. I went to the office, and 

 asked whether I was to take that back to England as a 

 specimen of Southern manners ; which made the landlord 

 ashamed and apologize." 



He did not hesitate to travel on the Sunday : he thought it 

 " as good an employment of the day as going to slave-holding 

 churches. It was refreshing to ride through the mountains 

 and valleys and woods, which were free and spoke of the Lord ; 

 while the men who lived there set His laws at defiance." This 

 journey was by rail : when the alternative was a jolting stage, 

 he preferred to walk, which caused much surprise. Once, after 

 a walk of twenty-two miles, he woke very sick and faint after 

 sleeping in the shade ; but stale bread, a jug of cold tea, and a 

 night's rest set him up again. " I think you will agree with 

 me that it speaks pretty well for my plain living, that this was 

 the only ailment I got in the South, although I was in 

 lat. 3 2 0 on Midsummer Day, and encountered the warmest 

 week's weather on my walking tour. That very day, as I 

 heard afterwards, several poor slaves had been sun-struck in 

 the fields in the neighbourhood, and several whites were killed 

 in the Eastern cities." After visiting the Sulphur Springs 

 and Weir's Cave (which reminded him of the pictures he had 



