Voyage up the Mississippi (continued)—Grand Gulph and Big Black
River—Snags—"I belong to myself, Sir"—Vicksburg and Lynch Law—A Man
Overboard—"Drove of Horses, Mules, and Niggers"—Character of
Fellow-Passengers—The Sabbath—Disobedience to Conscience
LETTER XIV.
Voyage up the Mississippi (continued)—The Arkansas—Treatment of the
Indians—M de Tocqueville—"Napoleon" and Lynch Law—Memphis, and its
Advertisements—A Scene witnessed there—The Ohio—Nashville, and Amos
Dresser
LETTER XV.
Voyage up the Ohio (continued)—Illinois—Evansville—Owensborough
—Indiana—New Albany—Louisville, and its Cruel Histories—The Grave of
President Harrison—Arrival in Cincinnati—First Impressions—The
Congregational Minister—A Welsh Service
LETTER XVI.
Stay at Cincinnati (continued)—Close of the Welsh Service—The
Governor of Ohio and his Relatives—The "Black Laws"—Governor Bebb's
Hostility to them—Dr. Weed and American Versatility—Private
Lodgings—Introduction to Dr. Beecher and others—A Peep at a
Democratic Meeting
LETTER XVII.
Stay at Cincinnati (continued)—The Democratic Meeting—A Visit to Lane
Seminary—"Public Declamation"—Poem on War—Essay on Education
LETTER XVIII.
Visit to Lane Seminary (continued)—Dr. Beecher and his Gun—The
College Library—Dr. Stowe and his Hebrew Class—History of Lane
Seminary—Qualifications for Admission—The Curriculum—Manual
Labour—Expenses of Education—Results—Equality of Professors and
Students
LETTER XIX.
A Sabbath at Cincinnati—The Second Presbyterian Church—Mutilation of a Popular Hymn—The Rushing Habit—A wrong "Guess"—A German Sunday-School—Visit to a Church of Coloured People—Engagement at the Welsh "Church"—Monthly Concert—The Medical College of Ohio—Tea at the House of a Coloured Minister
LETTER XX.
Stay at Cincinnati (continued)—The New Roman Catholic Cathedral—The
Rev. C.B. Boynton and Congregationalism—"The Herald of a New
Era"—American Nationality
LETTER XXI.
Stay at Cincinnati (continued)—The Orphan Asylum—A Coloured Man and a
White Fop treated as each deserved—A Trip across to Covington—Mr.
Gilmore and the School for Coloured Children—"The Fugitive Slave to
the Christian"—Sabbath—Mr. Boynton—Dr. Beecher—Lane Seminary
—Departure from Cincinnati
LETTER XXII.
Cincinnati—Its History and Progress—Its Trade and Commerce—Its
Periodical Press—Its Church Accommodation—Its Future Prospects
—Steaming up the Ohio—Contrast between Freedom and Slavery—An
Indian Mound—Splendid Scenery—Coal Hills
LETTER XXIII.
Arrival at Pittsburg—Its Trade and Prospects—Temperance-Newspapers
—Trip up the Monongahela to Brownsville—Staging by Night across the
Alleghany Mountains—Arrival at Cumberland—The Railway Carriages of
America
LETTER XXIV.
Journey by Railroad from Cumberland to Baltimore—A Tedious Stoppage—A
Sabbath in Baltimore—Fruitless Inquiry—A Presbyterian Church and Dr.
Plummer—Richmond and its Resolutions—Dr. Plummer's Pro-slavery
Manifesto—The Methodist Episcopal Church
LETTER XXV.
A Sabbath at Baltimore (continued)—A Coloured Congregation—The
Thought of seeing Washington abandoned—Departure from Baltimore
—Coloured Ladies in the Luggage-Van—American Railways—Chesapeak
Bay—Susquehannah—State of Delaware, and Abolition of Slavery
—Philadelphia—Albert Barnes—Stephen Girard's Extraordinary Will
LETTER XXVI.
Departure from Philadelphia—A Communicative Yankee—Trenton—The
Mansion of Joseph Bonaparte—Scenes of Brainerd's Labours One Hundred
Years ago—First Impressions of New York—150, Nassau-street—Private
Lodgings—Literary Society—American Lodging houses—A Lecture on
Astronomy—The "Negro Pew" in Dr. Patton's Church
LETTER XXVII.
A Presbyterian Church in New York, and its Pastor—The Abbotts and their Institution—Union Theological Seminary—Dr. Skinner's Church—New York University—A threatening "Necessity"—Prejudice against Colour—A Fact connected with Mr. ——'s Church—Another Fact in Pennsylvania—State of Public Opinion in New York—An Interview with Dr. Spring—A
