But All Those Are Beauties For The
Tourist Rather Than For The Resident.
In Kentucky the land lays in
knolls and soft sloping hills.
The trees stand apart, forming
forest openings. The herbage is rich, and the soil, though not
fertile like the prairies of Illinois, or the river bottoms of the
Mississippi and its tributaries, is good, steadfast, wholesome
farming ground. It is a fine country for a resident gentleman
farmer, and in its outward aspect reminds me more of England in its
rural aspects than any other State which I visited. Round
Louisville there are beautiful sites for houses, of which advantage
in some instances has been taken. But, nevertheless, Louisville,
though a well-built, handsome city, is not now a thriving city. I
liked it because the hotel was above par, and because the country
round it was good for walking; but it has not advanced as Cincinnati
and St. Louis have advanced. And yet its position on the Ohio is
favorable, and it is well circumstanced as regards the wants of its
own State. But it is not a free-soil city. Nor, indeed, is St.
Louis; but St. Louis is tending that way, and has but little to do
with the "domestic institution." At the hotels in Cincinnati and
St. Louis you are served by white men, and are very badly served.
At Louisville the ministration is by black men, "bound to labor."
The difference in the comfort is very great. The white servants are
noisy, dirty, forgetful, indifferent, and sometimes impudent.
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