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 Longstreet, Judge, his 'Georgia Scenes,' quoted, ii., 297.

Lorettes, the, of New Orleans, i., 302; a quasi-marriage, 303; economy of the system, 306.

Louisiana, laws of, favourable to negroes, i., 101; a negro's opinion of, compared with Virginia, 334; contrast of manners in, and in Texas, ii., 31; good-nature of the people, 31; miserable condition of the poorer planters, 44; disregard of slave-laws in, 47; Sunday-work, 47; insecurity of slaveholding interest, 51.

Lumberers, slave, habits and mode of life in the swamp, i., 146; superior to most slaves, 148.

Lumber-trade in the Dismal Swamp, i., 145.

Lying, almost universal among slaves, i., 105.

Maine Law, arguments for, in the South, i., 253.

Malaria of rice-fields, i., 235.

Management of slaves, increasing difficulty of the, i., 252.

Manchac Spring, a well-ordered plantation, ii., 15.

Manufactures, beneficial effect of, on the community, i., 25; ii., 286.

Marriage, indifference of negroes to, ii., 80.

Maury, Lieutenant, on the advantageous situation for commerce of Norfolk (Virginia), i., 143.

Medical survey, ii., 197.

Memphis, ii., 55.

'Methodist Protestant,' the, quoted, ii., 228.

Methodists, their opinion on slavery, ii., 140; their five 'Christian Advocates,' 140, note.

Mexicans, dislike of Americans to, ii., 19.

Mill's 'Political Economy,' quoted, ii., 338.

Miner, conversation with a, ii., 115.

Mineral treasures of Virginia, ii., 365.

Misrepresentation, charge of, against the author, ii., 311.

Missionary system, slavery as a, ii., 215.

Mississippi River, cotton plantations on the, i., 13, 17, note; ii., 59; rich planters, 158; number of slaves on a plantation, 159.

Mississippi, feeling in, against slavery, ii., 98, 109; condition of the slaves, 101.

Mississippi, Northern, remarkable plantation in, ii., 67; all the negroes able to read, 70; their religion and morals, 71.

Mobile (Alabama), description of, i., 282; scarcity of tradesmen and mechanics, 283; chief business of the town, 283; English merchants, owners of slaves, 284.

Montgomery (Alabama), i., 274.

Morals of white children suffer from association with slaves, i., 222, ii., 229.

'Morehouse Advocate,' the, quoted, i., 298.

Mulatto, a runaway, captured by a negro, ii., 21; their value compared with pure blacks, 82, 211.

Murder of a young lady by a negro girl, i., 125, note.

Music, negro fondness for, ii., 73, 221.

Nachitoches (Louisiana), i., 358.

Nacogdoches (E. Texas), ii., 1; difficulty of procuring needful supplies for our journey, 2.

Names of blacks, ii., 208.

Natchez, gambling at, ii., 154; beauty of the neighbouring country, 165; the town described, 166; view of the Mississippi from the Bluff, 168; conversation with an Italian at, 169.

'National Intelligencer,' the, quoted, i., 143.

Nebraska Bill, opinions of, ii., 135, 141.

Negroes, numbers engaged in cotton culture, i., 17; their increased value, 26; appearance of, in Virginia, 33; an illegal meeting at Washington, 36; problem of Southern gentlemen with respect to, 61; their Christmas holidays, 74; how they live in the swamp, 96, 155; their cunning to avoid working for their masters' profit, 99; alleged incapacity of exercising judgment, 100; kind treatment in Louisiana, 101, 328, 338; proverbial habit of lying,