For Myself I Confess
That I Was Anxious To Go South; But Not To Do So Without My Coats
And Trowsers, Or Shirts And Pocket-Handkerchiefs.
The readiest way
of getting across the line - and the way which was, I believe, the
most frequently used - was from below Baltimore, in Maryland, by boat
across the Potomac.
But in this there was a considerable danger of
being taken, and I had no desire to become a state-prisoner in the
hands of Mr. Seward under circumstances which would have justified
our Minister in asking for my release only as a matter of favor.
Therefore, when at St. Louis, I gave up all hopes of seeing "Dixie"
during my present stay in America. I presume it to be generally
known that Dixie is the negro's heaven, and that the Southern slave
States, in which it is presumed that they have found a Paradise,
have since the beginning of the war been so named.
We remained a few days at Louisville, and were greatly struck with
the natural beauty of the country around it. Indeed, as far as I
was enabled to see, Kentucky has superior attractions, as a place of
rural residence for an English gentleman, to any other State in the
Union. There is nothing of landscape there equal to the banks of
the Upper Mississippi, or to some parts of the Hudson River. It has
none of the wild grandeur of the White Mountains of New Hampshire,
nor does it break itself into valleys equal to those of the
Alleghanies, in Pennsylvania.
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