CHAPTER VII.

SOUTHERN CLASSES--CRUELTY TO SLAVES.

Sandhillers--Dirt-eating--Dipping--Their Mode of Living-- Patois--Rain-book--Wife-trade--Coming in to see the Cars-- Superstition--Marriage of Kinsfolks--Hardshell Sermon--Causes which lead to the Degradation of this Class--Efforts to Reconcile the Poor Whites to the Peculiar Institution--The Slaveholding Class--The Middle Class--Northern _isms_-- Incident at a Methodist Minister's House--Question asked a Candidate for Licensure--Reason of Southern Hatred toward the North--Letter to Mr. Jackman--Barbarities and Cruelties of Slavery--Mulattoes--Old Cole--Child Born at Whipping-post-- Advertisement of a Keeper of Bloodhounds--Getting Rid of Free Blacks--The Doom of Slavery--Methodist Church South 212--248