Historical sketches of the south

To fully understand the opposition of thought wherein our “irrepressible conflict” had its inception and lay so long in embryo, to burst forth at last in the awful and bloody tr...

The Cavalier and adventurer in working out their destiny in the New World became purged of the foibles that continued to debauch their compeers in England; among their descendan...

Legislation against habits which by an evolution of sentiment have become moral issues is always followed by flagrant violations, for men are usually loth to acquiesce in things...

In 1858, Mobile had been for almost a century and a half one of the important Gulf coast ports. Picturesquely situated at the head of a lagoon-like bay, the craft of many nation...

The slaves who constituted the _Clotilde’s_ cargo and who have become historic by being the last brought into the United States were captured by Dahomey’s warriors and Amazons o...

Captain Foster boarded at the Vanderslice home (afterwards marrying one of the daughters) in the Meaher settlement. This was about three miles from Mobile and a mile from the sh...

The time of waiting had been an anxious one. The Meahers realized the risk. There had always been some, but during the absence of the _Clotilde_ great agitation had become rife...

Dabney’s plantation lay in the cane brake country--a part of the river region, so-called from the miles of towering cane. It was a wilderness, every part strangely alike, in whi...

Magazine Point--the site of Meaher’s mill and ship-yard--though but three miles from Mobile, was inaccessible, except by water or a circuitous route of some miles by land. Betwe...

The trip of Lafayette through this country in the twenties was more or less spectacular, and the places he visited are to-day pointed out as historic, yet only twenty years late...