CHAPTER VI.

GHOST FEATURE OF THE MOVEMENT. ITS PHILOSOPHY.

Contrasted Views of the Organization inspired by its Dealings with the Public--The Colored Man in the South--Kindly Feeling for the Race cherished by Native Southerners--Households Presided over by Colored Matrons--Superstitious Tendencies of Cuffey--His Ideas about "Ghosts," and the Realm which they Inhabit--Spook Kinsfolk--The ideal "Uncle Tom's Cabin"--Wherein it was a Failure--The "Infantile Sex" and their Greed for Ghost-lore-- Painful Reminiscences--Use to which the Aged Patriarch, or Beldam, as the Case might be, put their Prerogative--Talent for relating Ghost Stories--The Young White Men of the South trained up in this School 61