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[Chap. V. 



naturalist. So I got them all done by ten o'clock, and per- 

 suaded them to go to bed, while I attempted the much harder 

 work of packing my crystals and bottles of fishes. ... I got 

 all the things into three boxes : not one left out, and not room 

 for another. Kind H. got up in the morning, and nailed them 

 up for me ; and the stage agreed to take his and mine for the 

 two fares, he preferring to walk. Mr. Procter, the hotel-keeper, 

 made a deduction from both bills on the ground that we were 

 naturalists. I begged him to take full price, but he would 

 not. As I had distributed many dollars among the slaves, I 

 was not sorry for his kind proposal." On their walk to the 

 station he was delighted by finding a magnificent wild dahlia. 



On the way to see some Warrington friends in the West, he 

 stopped at St. Louis. He had written, a fortnight before, to 

 the Mayor of that city : " Will you kindly inform me whether 

 I should be allowed to give a lecture at St. Louis on the First 

 of August next,* on the ' Causes and Effects of Emancipation 

 in the British Dominions/ or some such title ? I should come 

 as the agent of no society, hire my own room, and announce it 

 as privately as you thought proper. I would also write the 

 lecture to refer to, if need be to print, in case of misunderstanding 

 afterwards." The Mayor courteously replied, " I have not the 

 least doubt that you can, wholly uninterruptedly, deliver your 

 sentiments on any subject you may select." On arriving at St. 

 Louis, Philip called on the Mayor, and by his advice advertised 

 his lecture in the four principal papers. The editor of " The 

 Express " was astonished, and seemed pleased, at the idea of his 

 doing it all at his own expense. The next two days he chiefly 

 devoted to writing his address, having borrowed Dr. Channing's 

 works, and read articles on the slave-trade and " The West 

 Indies as they are and were" in recent numbers of "The 

 Edinburgh Review." " Monday morning (August i) came, and 

 I finished my lecture ; then set forth to witness the sights — the 

 election, and the advertised sale of a negro woman aged 

 twenty-six, with a girl of four, a boy of two, and twins aged 

 two months. I had gone through all the feeling of my lecture 

 * The Anniversary of Emancipation, in 1834. 



